Tag Archives: Guyana Police Force

By GHK Lall Get this straight everyone: I am no friend of assistant commissioner of police, Mr. Calvin Brutus. Never could be. Perhaps, it will never be. But the man is a citizen and a brother, one under siege from all points of the compass. A code adhered to is never to kick a man when he is down. Another ...

Newly-appointed Guyana Police Force Commander for Region One (Barima-Waini), Superintendent Krishna Ramana at the weekend led a team of law enforcers on an outreach to several communities. The force said that exercise was part of its commitment to fostering a strong relationship between law enforcement and the community.”Mr Ramana, along with other ranks, visited Yarakita, White Water, and Wauna villages, ...

Four men tied up an off-duty fireman, who was moonlighting as a taxi driver, bundled him into the back seat of his car and drove the vehicle to rob a businesswoman at Ruimzight, West Coast Demerara, but eventually one of them was caught and he has since identified his accomplices, police said. The fireman, 50-year-old Garfield “Carry” Benjamin, is attached ...

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 ...

As a wide-ranging probe by the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) into alleged financial improprieties widens, investigators within the past week obtained High Court orders to freeze at least two bank accounts for businesses being operated by the wife of a high ranking police officer. “We have frozen the accounts. SOCU has frozen all those accounts; gotten ...

The Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) would be investigating alleged financial improprieties by Assistant Police Commissioner (ag), Calvin Brutus, amid allegations that he deposited GY$16.5 million into his Guyana Police Credit Union account, a senior government official said Friday night. The source said Mr Brutus, who had been performing the functions of a Deputy Police Commissioner, would ...

Several members of the Guyana Police Force are now under scrutiny after a video surfaced showing a number of them in a scuffle with a man at the Mackenzie Police Station. At least one of five uniformed policemen was seen kicking a man on the ground, in the video posted to the Joint Services WhatsApp media group by journalist Gordon ...

by GHK Lall A cautionary note is in order as I share on traffic today. All laws and rules are dumped into the garbage can. Well, that is precisely what most Guyanese have done with them. Frequently, I am ready to say all Guyanese, so prevalent, so every day, are the departures from the rules, dismissals of them, and making ...

Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Volda Lawrence has been asked to report to the Criminal Investigation Department next Monday at 10am, the opposition coalition said Saturday. Initially, she was asked to do so Saturday afternoon, but an A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) spokesman said the date has been changed. The coalition slammed the governing ...

Members of a Venezuelan sindicato gang opened fire on a joint patrol of Guyanese police and soldiers on the Cuyuni River, the Guyana Defence Force said. The army said no one was injured during the incident that occurred on the bordering river on Wednesday, September 23. “None of the ranks received injuries and they returned fire,” the GDF said. The ...