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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 ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday refused to say who would be investigating alleged financial improprieties by head of Special Branch and Deputy Police Commissioner (ag) Calvin Brutus, but the Alliance for Change (AFC) recommended that Caribbean police be called in to do the job. “You will be advised when we do a release,” said Mr Benn when asked ...

Just days after Deputy Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus was reassigned from administration to Head of Special Branch, the Guyana Police Force said Thursday afternoon that he has gone on leave to allow a probe into alleged financial misdeeds. Mr Brutus allegedly deposited GY$16.5 million into his Police Credit Union account on December 15, 2023. The money was returned to him ...

A fire erupted at the psychiatric ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Wednesday morning but all of the 48 patients were evacuated without injuries, a senior fire officer at the scene said. Fire Officer for operations Gregory Wickham said a probe has begun to determine the cause of the fire. The blaze began in a ward on the ...

Deputy Police Commissioner, Lyndon Alves has been cleared of any criminal offence, but Police Commissioner Leslie James suggested that his resumption of duty would depend on clearing up of some administrative matters. “He has been cleared of any criminal conduct,” James told reporters. Pressed on when Alves would be back on the job, the Police Commissioner would only say that ...