Crime

A 28-year-old man was killed and two others injured in an early Saturday morning road accident when the driver lost control of the car on the Cottage, Mahaicony Public Road and slammed into a fence and a utility pole. The dead man has been identified as Collin Dowden of Lot 2 Belle Vue, West Coast Berbice. Those injured and transferred ...

Police were Saturday searching for a minibus, with a driver, which allegedly struck down and killed a 62-year-old man in the vicinity of ‘Church of God Road’, Buxton, East Coast Demerara. Police said the minibus that was involved in the accident at about 11 o’clock Friday night was bearing licence number BAC 4129. Police said Adree Slowe was crossing the ...

Original story was published here on Business Insider. A federal judge in Manhattan has found former president Donald Trump liable for damages in a hotly-contested copyright battle over Eddy Grant’s ’80s dance hit “Electric Avenue.” Business Insider reported that in a 30-page decision, the judge on Friday delivered a one-two blow that essentially ends the case pretrial, with nothing now left to ...

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton says if his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition wins the 2025 general and regional elections a number of senior police officers would be removed. “We have got to clean the police force of those senior corrupt officers who have no interest in law enforcement but are interested in getting wealthy,” he said on KAMSTV. He ...

The Guyana Police Force on Tuesday changed its Divisional Commander for Region One (Barima-Waini), just over one week after 4.4 tonnes of cocaine were unearthed from pits near an illegal airstrip in Matthews Ridge, North West District. Superintendent Krishna Ramana said he assumed duty at the remote interior location on Tuesday, replacing Senior Superintendent Himnauth Sawh. In announcing the discovery and ...

Three persons, including a New York-based man, are wanted for the murder of two persons during a drive-by shooting on Joseph Pollydore (D’Urban) Street, Lodge, Georgetown, police said Monday. They were identified as 18-year-old Omalie Vieria of 47 Princes Street, Lodge, 30-year-old Dominique Darrel Osborne of 44 Princes Street, Lodge and 31-year-old Keron Hinds of 4 Smyth Street,Werk-en-Rust and 134 ...

Two United States-made submachine guns, a preferred weapon by organised criminals, were seized in as many days, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. The latest weapon of its type was seized on Monday at 73 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, where four persons were arrested. CANU Head, James Singh said there was no link between Monday’s seizure of the 9mm calibre ...

A woman, who moved out of her reputed husband’s home two months ago because he threatened to kill her, was on Sunday stabbed to death by him at her sister’s residence where he had gone to visit their children, police said. The assailant, 35-year-old James Lord, of Hill Foot, Soesdyke-Linden Highway was later caught by public-spirited citizens and told police ...

Leaders of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are set to discuss poor performance in mathematics by children across the region, and already President Irfaan Ali is suggesting that declining grades in that subject might be due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The issue of mathematics has now captured the attention of every single head of state and Prime Minister in the ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday ruled out that impending amendments to the Cyber Crime Act would seek to stifle freedom of expression and freedom of the media but would be in line with the United Nations (UN) Convention against Cybercrime. “We are not for censorship on the internet.” he told his weekly press conference at Freedom House, the headquarters ...