Crime

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member and Attorney-at-Law, James Bond is among three persons charged with conspiracy to defraud in the lease of lands held by the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL). NICIL’s former Chief Executive Officer, Colvin Heath-London, Mr. Bond and Jermaine Richmond were charged jointly to defraud NICIL and its sole shareholder, the Guyana government, of ...

A 64-year old man was arrested late Wednesday afternoon with more than four kilogrammes of compressed marijuana in a suitcase that he was rolling down a city street, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. He has been identified as Clarence Wright off Bagotville, West Bank Demerara. CANU says he was arrested on Water and Cornhill Streets near the old Guyana ...

A relative of the Henry cousins, who were hacked to death last year and their bodies dumped aback a West Demerara village, has surrendered to police in connection with the killing of an elderly man at Number Three village. Police say Mark Anthony Henry turned himself in at the police force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Eve Leary, Georgetown. Mr. Henry was ...

A West Bank Demerara businessman, who owns two Superbet outlets,  says he was robbed of GYD$2.3 million Police did not identify the victim but says he also manages five other Superbet locations, all of which are located on the West Bank Demerara. However, he was quoted as telling investigators that the money, a cellular phone  and two bunches of keys ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn does not want private security guards to display big guns while on duty, and he has warned that security firms would be suspended if their employees lose guns. “We do not want what is seemingly a militarized country, and I want us to be reminded of the risk and the danger the improper use of ...

A man surrendered to police in Mackenzie, Region 10 after he allegedly threw hot water on his partner’s face because she refused to unlock her cellular phone, and when her sister intervened he battered her with a block and a piece of wood, police said Tuesday. “When he did not succeed in having her input the password to open the ...

Convicted drug-lord, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan, who had publicly claimed to have prevented the Bharrat Jagdeo administration from being toppled, on Monday said he was the intended target of gunmen who killed his “son” Ricardo “Paper Short” and he accused police of deliberately responding slow to the incident. “This was not an attack on Ricardo…He died in my place. Make no ...

A driver of Wrong-Turn Squatting Area, Tuschen   , East Bank Essequibo was early this morning stabbed to death during a drinking spree. Dead is 34-year old Floyd Mc Garrell.  The incident occurred at about 4:45 this morning at Back Street, Tuschen. Police say they are treating the killing as murder. The suspect, a 41-year old fisherman from Tuschen, has ...

An employee of Guy-Bisco Importation Limited was allegedly robbed of $1.4M cash while conducting business on Thursday March 25, 2021 on Mandela Avenue,police said. The Guyana Police Force says he alleges that as he completed selling items on behalf of his employer at various shops, he secured the funds in the canter he was driving and proceed to return to ...

Former Assistant Police Commissioner, Kevin Adonis and three serving policemen were Friday arraigned on a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud the Guyana Police Force of  GYD$19 million for the purported purchase of fuel. Sergeant Michael Corbin,  Sergeant Jermain Fraser, Corporal Rawle Haynes and Mr. Adonis were charged jointly for the offence of Conspiracy to Commit a Felony.  Chief Magistrate ...