Crime

A group Essequibo Coast fishermen was allegedly robbed of food, fuel, cellular phones and about $100,000 n fish, late Wednesday night, police said Saturday. The Guyana Police Force said the incident occurred at Kamwatta, Waini River in the North West District on March 10, 2021. Kumar Narine, 26, of Essequibo Coast, Joel D’Aguiar, 22,  of Barima River North West District, ...

The Guyana Police Force was Thursday night investigating an alleged killed committed on an 11-year-old student. Dead is Anthony Cort who was reportedly shot dead by one of two bandits. Investigators said the child was with his mother two houses from where he resides when two males, wearing face masks and armed with handguns, nvaded the property belonging to a ...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Wednesday evening defending former Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, Trevor Benn who remains in police custody. The APNU+AFC said Mr. Benn did not receive any money from land transactions on behalf of the State. “It is an established fact that Mr. Benn did not personally benefit from the ...

Former Lands and Surveys Commissioner, Trevor Benn was Wednesday morning arrested as part of a police probe into land transactions, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said Mr. Benn remained in custody. Asked whether Mr Benn’s detention was connected to the sale of land to Car Care’s Wilfred Brandford, the Crime Chief said “no” ...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting Guyana in training teachers, probation officers and community leaders in reforming offenders because, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, traditional means of punishment have not been working. “It has been found that the traditional theories and methods of dealing with criminal behaviour, violent conduct  have not yielded the results anticipated,” he said at ...

A security guard, who was on duty at a supermarket on the Lusignan Railway Embankment was Tuesday night robbed of a handgun and ammunition by two men, the Guyana Police Force said. The robbery victim has been identified as Benson Jarvis who was on duty at A-Chang, Supermarket when the incident occurred between 10:00 PM and 10:10 PM He told ...

A welder-fabricator of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara and his father have been arrested and 13 motorcycles and frames have been seized from the location, the Guyana Police Force said Tuesday. Region Three Divisional Commander, Senior Superintendent Errol Watts is urging persons who have lost their motorcycles to visit the Vreed-en-Hoop station to see if any belongs to them. The motorcycles ...

The Ministry of Health says previous attempts by impersonators to jump the COVID-19 vaccination line have forced the implementation of stricter protocols to get the jab. “There are people who wanted to jump the line so they did not want to wait their turn and they would turn out at our vaccination sites and probably try to impersonate health care ...

Six persons have been arrested in connection with the discovery of a quantity of pencil-shaped cocaine sticks in a quantity of salted fish that was destined for Miami, United States,  Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said Monday. The law enforcement agency said the 280 pieces of plastic-wrapped pencil-shaped parcels of suspected cocaine were hidden in the bones of salted fish ...

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Sunday sought to assure Guyanese that the COVID-19 curfew and other measures are being enforced against anyone, and he promised that alleged unfair enforcement would be investigated. “None is exempted and therefore none is above the law,”  said Mr. Phillips who is also the Head of the COVID-19 Task Force. The Prime Minister’s comments came ...