Crime

A resident of Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden, who is known to the police, was Monday still nursing gunshot wounds he sustained after a man fired several r0unds at him last Friday, the Guyana Police Force said. The victim has been identified as 53-year old Nigel Somersall. Police said he was hospitalised in a stable condition, having undergone emergency surgery for ...

Outspoken New York-based anti-government activist Rickford Burke on Sunday denied claims by an accused extortionist that he has anything to do with a Faceboo0k page and website styled Guyana News Network on which a number possibly defamatory posts were made. “The people being coerced by the Police to speculate and make these statements live in Guyana. They have never been ...

A contractor and a construction worker, who allegedly stole GY$400 million worth of raw gold from a house they were repairing, have been charged with larceny and one of them has admitted to stealing the 1,000 ounces of gold and has been sentenced to four years imprisonment. The men allegedly stole the gold from the female gold miner’s house at ...

A United States-bound Guyanese woman was still in custody on Friday after she was allegedly caught with more than 11 kilogrammes of cocaine in biscuit wrappers, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said CANU agents said the woman was held at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) with the suspected cocaine concealed in biscuit wrappers in her carry-on luggage. She has ...

A cleaner, who was attached to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT) Giftland Mall branch, told police that she assisted in planning the GY$19.4 million dollar armed robbery by bogus security guards who went there under the pretext of escorting the day’s earnings, police said. Police said they recovered GY$2,696,420. In all , six persons pleaded guilty to the charge ...

A retired policeman on Wednesday remained in custody for his alleged role in the abduction and armed robbery  of a businessman from Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. The robbery victim, 35-year old Jagdesh Mangal, said after he was whisked away and robbed of GY$3.6 million dollars worth of gold and diamond jewellery, he was taken ...

Two Guyanese gold miners were Tuesday shot accidentally when a Venezuelan man and a Guyanese man opened fire at each other during a heated argument, police said. Those shot are 38-year old Ronell Cleon Trotman of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara and 30-year old Kurt Arthur of Lot 51 First Alley Wismar, Linden. After the incident, which occurred at Gold ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) on Friday said it was supporting its workers who were threatened and assaulted during a GY$19 million robbery Thursday night. “We have accounted for all our team members and continue to provide support to them through our HR (Human Resource) Employee Experience,” GTT said in a statement. The telecommunications company said as a result ...

Bogus guards, pretending to be from a security service that usually uplifts the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (GTT) earnings, on Thursday night carted off a GY$13,420,487  and GY$6,015,524 in cheques from that telecoms company’s branch at Giftland Mall, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. Police said the robbery occurred at about 9:45 Pm by two masked men who were armed with ...

Customs agents of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Thursday seized  three motor vehicles laden with a large quantity of uncustomed chicken. GRA says its  Law Enforcement Investigations Division agents made the seizure at Cane Grove, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara. According to GRA, at a separate location in the said village, its Officers also seized a large quantity of alcoholic ...