Crime

A policeman has been beaten and stabbed allegedly by his brother and brother-in-law, police said. They have since been arrested. The Guyana Police Force said Constable Paul Rodrigues has since been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the New Amsterdam Police Station. Investigators say that the incident occurred at Canfield Settlement, East Canje Berbice at about 6 PM yesterday. ...

A man, who was fined $12.5 million and sentenced to five years imprisonment for being in possession of more than 20 kilogrammes of marijuana, three years ago has been caught, police said. Police say 25-year old Ricardo Welch of Fort Ordinance, East Canje Berbice, was caught by police while he was pushing a cycle in New Amsterdam. He was nabbed ...

A confectionery vendor was Sunday evening stabbed to death in Charlestown, Georgetown by a man who accused him of posting a picture of a woman in a relationship, police said. Dead is 48-year old Carl Cameron of 33 Lyng Street, Charlestown, Georgetown. Police said Cameron was stabbed five times by the 30-year old man at about 6:00 PM Sunday. Investigators ...

One of three robbers drowned on Saturday after they jumped into a canal at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara to escape from residents who were enraged by the theft of more than $500,000 in jewellery, other valuables and cash, police said. “Public-spirited citizens gave chase along with a responding mobile patrol and the suspects entered a canal that ...

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with  Tuesday night’s alleged robbery of a security guard while she was on duty at the Christianburg Nursery School in Wismar, Linden. The guard told police that one of the robbers held her at knifepoint and stole her cellular phone valued $43,000. The incident reportedly occurred shortly before midnight. Two of the suspects ...

Reproduced from Reuters News Agency Three people were left dead and three hospitalized after Jamaican police raided the compound of a small religious organization due to concerns the group was preparing to carry out “ritualized killing,” Jamaican police said on Monday. Police responded on Sunday to reports that a congregant had been injured at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Church ...

Three persons were Friday arrested in connection with the stealing of  GY$1.8 million in cash and jewellery from the Good Hope, Essequibo Coast Road home of a businessman during the predawn hours, police said. The 46-year old man informed police that GY$1.5 million cash and three gold chains valued GY$380,000 were stolen from hos residence. He said at about 1:30 ...

Police on Friday arrested a prime suspect in the stabbing death and robbery of Strathspey, East Coast Demerara businessman, investigators said. “Acting on information, a mobile police patrol arrested the suspect and the jewelry was found in his possession,” police said. Police said the 24-year old admitted to committing the offences. “The suspect confessed to the allegations put to him ...

Former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe on Friday  filed a criminal complaint against Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall for calling him and other members of the then Police Service Commission “anarchists”  and a “bad john”.  “I have been advised that those comments and the context in which they have ...

High Court Judge, Joann Barlow on Wednesday ordered a jury to return a not guilty verdict in favour of then police sergeant Colin Bailey who had been accused of the murder of his wife, Sirmattie Ramnaress , at their home at Diamond, East Bank Demerara in 2013. “There is Something fundamentally wrong with a justice system when a citizen can ...