Tag Archives: robbery

A suspected bandit was Monday morning shot and killed by the pawnbroker at a jewellery store and pawnshop on Trinity and Main streets, New Amsterdam, shortly after a customer was robbed and shot on the business premises, police said. “The owner, a licensed firearm holder, on hearing the commotion, immediately returned fire, causing the two suspects to flee with the ...

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 ...

Police were Wednesday night searching for a Venezuelan man who is wanted for the stabbing death of a Guyanese man and injury to his Venezuelan girlfriend during a robbery. Dead is 33-year-old Ken Sukhdeo of Mocha, East Bank Demerara. Investigators said they were informed that the incident occurred at about 10:10 hours Tuesday night at Vreed-en-Rust, East Bank Demerara. Police ...

After successfully forcing three bandits out of his house early Sunday morning, a West Bank Demerara construction worker was shot dead as he confronted the trio with a cutlass in his yard at 2806 Westminster Housing Scheme. The incident involving the victim, 69-year-old Jairam Ramkishun, occurred at about 1:30 a.m., the Guyana Police Force said. According to the police based ...

Two motorcyclists, clad in what appeared to be police uniforms, Wednesday night allegedly robbed the manager of Toucan Distributors Limited of GY$10 million at Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s (GBTI) compound on Young Street, Kingston, Georgetown. police said. “The man observed that the motorcyclists were ‘Policemen’-suspects dressed in Police uniforms. As such, the 65-year-old walked towards the Deposit vault ...

An employee of Cevon’s Waste Management’s office in South Ruimveldt was shot and injured and the two masked bandits snatched salaries that were being paid to employees, police said Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at the company’s location on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt. The actual robbery victim was identified as 31-year-old Ruth Chase, an employee ...

A security officer was arrested for allegedly stealing four Merisolar solar panels from the Two Miles Primary School, Bartica, after a canteen manager realised that they were missing, the Guyana Police Force said. Investigators believed that the security officer stole the items between Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22, 2024 when Canteen Manager, Melanie Gardener reportedly said she was ...

Two men have been charged with robbing a Guyana Defence Force soldier of several items. Police say that among the items stolen from Private Marlon Reynolds was a motorcycle that belongs to the GDF. Those charged are 32-year-old Junior Jordan, a labourer of Non-Pariel Street, Albouystown and 18-year-old Brandon Robinson of Hunter Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. They were not required to ...

A supervisor of Kissoondyal Enterprise Inc’s rice mill was Friday allegedly robbed of GY$3.4 million that should have been used to pay workers and rice farmers, police said. The woman told police that the incident occurred on Friday shortly after she arrived at the Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara-based rice mill with the cash from a bank in Georgetown. “On arrival ...

A taxi driver is in custody as police are on the hunt for another suspect in a robbery at Bartica where an undisclosed sum of gold, cash and other items were stolen from a gold trading company. The robbery was committed at Emperor Mineral Trading, owned by Millburn Mahadoo, at Lot 43 Second Avenue, Bartica shortly after midday Wednesday. Police ...