Crime

A 56-year old Venezuelan man has been arrested for allegedly being in illegal possession of two shotguns on the Black Banana access trail in the North West District he Guyana Police Force said Elvis Bartolo Pacheco, who is a miner at Baramita, North West District, was held on Monday afternoon with one 12-gauge shotgun and one 16-gauge shotgun Police said ...

Suriname’s former President Desi Bouterse’s 20-year jail sentence for the murder of 15 persons while he had been a military ruler in 1982 was Monday morning confirmed. Starnieuws reports that Bouterse was not in court, saying he was sick and no arrest has been ordered. The session lasted a very short time. No new facts have emerged, the Court Martial concluded. ...

Firefighters Saturday night contained a blaze to a house at Coghlan Dam, West Bank Demerara but the lone occupant sustained burns and was rushed to a nearby hospital, police said. Investigators said they believed that the 45-year old man, who is “believed to be of unsound mind”, set the fire and fled the scene on arrival of the police. The ...

Ten men have been arrested in connection with the late Saturday night killing of a man at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice after he asked them to remove from outside his premises where they had been drinking and using indecent language, police said. Dead is 6o-year old Rishi Barrat of Lot 10 Grant 106 Crabwood Creek. Police said they are treating ...

One of three persons was Friday arrested in connection with the gunpoint robbery of a woman  who had just arrived at her Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara home from a bank at Diamond, police said. The woman alleged that she was robbed of US$1,500 , GY$290,000, an iPhone XR and several documents. She told police that as she turned on ...

Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan  on Friday gave the prosecution time to put the Statements of Poll and Statements of Recount in order to present to disclose to all of the parties in the case. The case of conspiracy to defraud against former officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform, Volda ...

A Superbet outlet at Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara was Thursday night robbed of GY$220,000 cash by two men who also robbed three other persons at the same location of cash and valuables including a car valued GY$2.6 million. Investigators were informed that the two men, one of whom was dressed in a camouflage outfit, attacked the cashier at gunpoint ...

A Guyanese man and three Venezuelans were Wednesday arraigned for the murder of two Guyanese men at a mining camp at Blackwater, Region Seven. Those charged with the murder of Suresh Bachan and Steven Niles are 22-year old Nicholas ‘Wild Buck’ Caesar of Yarrowkabra Village, Linden Soesdyke Highway, and Venezuelans 25-year old  Juan Oscar Calderon ‘Gordo’ Lopez; 24-year old Jose ...

Police on Wednesday said that a West Demerara Hospital driver has admitted to stealing a dozen COVID-19 vaccine books from a quantity that he had uplifted from the Ministry of Health. “One of the suspects admitted to being the one that sometimes would uplift the COVID-19 books from the Ministry of Health in Georgetown and take them to the West ...

Ministry of Human Services-crafted manuals on how police must deal with reports and victims of domestic violence are to be entrenched in the training of members of the Guyana Police Force, government ministers said. Speaking with reporters after the official launch of COPSQUAD, an initiative to train at least 2,000 members of the police force in dealing with domestic violence, ...