Crime

The motorcar, which was allegedly used in an early Saturday morning drive-by shooting that left one person dead and six others injured, was found later in the day in South Ruimveldt, police said. At about 9:30 Saturday morning, detectives said they went to Manatee Place, South Ruimveldt Georgetown, where they observed a black Toyota Premio motorcar, without number plate, parked ...

Public Works Minister, Deodat Indar has slapped opposition-aligned social media commentators, Sherod Duncan and Melissa Atwell with a GY$50 million defamation lawsuit. Mr Indar is also asking the High Court to order the duo to remove all false and defamatory posts from their Facebook pages, in addition to an injunction restraining them from publishing such defamatory words. Through his lawyer, ...

A man was killed and five others were injured during a drive-by shooting on Joseph Pollydore Street (D’Urban Street), Lodge early Saturday morning. Dead is Anthony Havescombe, 40, a vendor of South Ruimveldt. Police said he succumbed to multiple gunshot injuries. The injured include former policeman, Teon “Spoil Child” Allen, 38, of Sophia who has had several brushes with the ...

A man, who allegedly struck down and killed a Jamaican man in December 2019 in Queens, New York, was caught at a horse race meet in Guyana and taken back to the United States (US) where he was refused bail on Friday, officials and news reports said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum ...

Six Brazilians were arrested Sunday for illegally mining at Amatuk, Potaro River, as part of efforts to clamp down on illegal mining in Guyana, the police force alleged. The Guyana Police Force said four men and two women were nabbed during a “coordinated operation” by police, soldiers and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC). Police said the team arrived ...

A suspected robber was shot in a store on America Street, Georgetown, as he fled the scene with the service pistol and ammunition that he grabbed from a security guard at a store where a money changer sought refuge, police said. Police said at about 1:20 p.m. Friday, they visited the Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital where 23-year-old ...

The Headteacher of Bonasika Primary School, Kapil Ramsamuj died from pesticide poisoning, consistent with a previous account to police that he committed suicide. The Guyana Police Force said Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh on Friday conducted a post-mortem examination with dissection on Ramsamuj’s body and he gave the cause of death as “pesticide poisoning.” Police quoted his sister, Vimla, as ...

The Headmaster of Bonasika Creek Primary School has died under suspicious circumstances, though investigators were informed that the man committed suicide by ingesting poison, Dead is 41-year-old Kapil Ramsamuj of Zeelugt New Housing Scheme. Police quoted his sister, Vimla, as saying that her brother allegedly committed suicide on August 12th, 2024, and he was rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital. ...

A gold miner of Imbaimadai Landing (Region Seven-Cuyuni Mazaruni) was Tuesday night nursing second degree burns in the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was doused with High Wine and set alight during an argument with another miner, police said Tuesday. Police said they regarded the incident as an attempt to murder 44-year-old James “Wormie” Thomas. The prime suspect has since ...

Police have discovered an AK-47 assault rifle and a large sum of foreign currency and Guyanese dollars allegedly in possession by a businessman at his home at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said Monday. Arrested at about 6:25 p.m. was 42-year-old Weston Pickering of Lot 2 Somerset Court Housing Scheme, Herstelling, East Bank Demerara. After the man ...