Crime

Even as Guyana prepares to join a global information-sharing network on financial crimes, the country has cemented ties with sister Caribbean countries to go after assets and combat money laundering, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said. He said Guyana was now not only a member of the Regional Security System’s (RSS)  Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network of the Caribbean (ARIN-CARIB) but is ...

Police are investigating the brutal beating of a Christ Church Secondary School student by his schoolmates, even as he remained hospitalised recovering from severe head and facial injuries, police said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Deputy Commissioner Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News that two persons have since been questioned by investigators. Mr Blanhum ...

Agents of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) are allegedly avoiding service of  private criminal charges instituted by a lawyer who was prevented from leaving the offices because she informed her client to remain silent, her lawyer Nigel Hughes said. With the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Hack and the Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken both failing to ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Chief Scrutineer , Carol Smith-Joseph was read 14 fraud charges connected to when she had served as a Director of the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) back in 2016, Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde said. “There is no clear explanation from the police as to what is the subject matter and what ...

Major Western Nations on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, to be observed on December 9, urged the Guyana government to demonstrate that it is serious about fighting corruption by not only holding workshops and passing legislation. In a joint statement, United States Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch;  British High Commissioner, Jane Miller; Canadian High Commissioner, Mark Berman, and Ambassador of the ...

A money changer has been shot and robbed in the busy Stabroek Market area, after his colleague attempted to defend himself with a knife, police said.  “During the confrontation, the suspect who was armed with a firearm, relieved one of the victims of his money. While attempting to rob the other victim, who pulled out a knife from the waist ...

Sheriff Security Service was robbed of a GY$500,000 payroll while guards at Guyana Shorebase Inc (GYSBI), Houston, East Bank Demerara were being paid, police said. The robbery was committed at about 6:20 PM Saturday by two males who arrived on the scene on  motorcycles. Police said  the incident was reported three hours later at 9:15 PM. Police said the Site ...

Just days after the World Bank announced that it has debarred a Spanish consultant because of corrupt practice, the Guyana government on Wednesday said the man was hired by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition-led administration in early 2020 and was effectively fired eight months later. The Ministry of Natural Resources said Mr. Carlos Barberán ...

The prime suspect in the stabbing death of his child’s mother was Tuesday morning found hanging in an abandoned house in Wismar, Linden, police said. The Commander of Regional Police Division #10, Mr Hugh Winter named the man as Leseton Baynes. The Police were looking for Leseton Baynes following the stabbing death of 22-year-old Kelly Charlotte, a teacher of 790 ...

Police in Linden were Monday morning continuing their manhunt for the prime suspect in the killing of a teacher after she broke up their relationship. Dead is 22-year Kelly Charlotte who lived at 790 One Mile Extention, Wismar, Linden. Police said they are looking for the son’s father, a 28-year-old truck driver of One Mile Extention Wismar, Linden. Charlotte was ...