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Antigua and Barbuda Police have charged a man with the murder of well-known politician, Asot Michael, whose body was found at his residence on November 5. The prime suspect has been identified as 26-year-old Alexta Francis of Golden Grove, Antigua. He is expected to make his first court appearance on Monday. Police did not disclose the circumstances that led to ...

A man, who allegedly staged a multi-million dollar robbery and made a false report to police, was arrested on Wednesday and police are searching for his accomplice. The prime suspect, 37-year-old Paramdeo Victor of Rosignol, West Coast Berbice, has since recovered a total of GY$8 million: GY$2 million from his car and GY$6 million in a washing machine at his ...

Two men from Stewartville, West Coast Demerara were early Saturday morning stabbed to death at Leonora, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said. Police have arrested one of two prime suspects in the killing of 30-year-old Mohamed Kalameeden Nasir, a carpenter who lived at Lot 1 Stewartville and 25-year-old Arvinda Roopram, a construction worker of Lot 52 Stewartville. Police said that ...

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 ...

A man, who was previously questioned in connection with the smuggling of cocaine to the United States, was arrested on Saturday after police allegedly found one AK-47 rifle, one handgun, one silencer, an assortment of ammunition and a quantity of drugs at his residence in Newtown, Georgetown. Police identified the suspect as 37-year-old Edinho Lewis of 126 Da Silva Street, ...

A Jamaican singer was shot dead Thursday morning in Sophia, Greater Georgetown and, police on Friday said they have since arrested his friend who is a taxi driver who was present when the victim opened the door. Dead is 29-year-old Navar George Barton who resided at Lot 125 Section’ A’ South Sophia, Greater Georgetown. Barton was allegedly murdered at about ...

A man suspected of being a bogus land seller was arrested on Monday at the Ministry of Housing, Brickdam for allegedly trying to defraud another man of GY$250,000 as payment for a plot of land, the Guyana Police Force said. His name has not yet been released by police who only said that the suspect is 30 years old and ...

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) was Sunday mum on whether intelligence gathering and espionage agents of its ranks on Saturday continued to engage in overt rather than covert operational activities, in contrast to decades of practice. The GPF did not acknowledge that any 0f the agents who confronted it were present during the arrest of a man on Brutus Street, ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly robbing a hot dog vendor at gunpoint while she was returning to her Ankerville, Port Mourant home because she was unwell, police said. “He was told of the allegation, cautioned and arrested. He remains in custody,” the Guyana Police Force said. The law enforcement agency does not routinely release the names of ...

Two men are in custody in connection with the killing of a 52-year-old woman whose body was found at Number 55 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, the Guyana Police Force said Saturday. Dead is Ninawattie “Sharda” Nandalall of Lot 14 Number 55 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. Police said an autopsy conducted on Saturday, April 13, 2024 found that the woman died as a ...