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Minibus driver jailed for a week after threatening to kill Police officer
A 30-year-old minibus driver was on Friday sentenced to one week imprisonment for threatening to kill a traffic officer, who had stopped him for a traffic-related offence.
King Wilson of Melanie, East Coast Demerara appeared before City…
Deadly 2018 piracy attack Inquiry points to turf war over fishing grounds
The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the April 2018 piracy attack in Suriname in which 25 Guyanese fishermen were savagely beaten, chopped, burnt and then dumped overboard, has found that it resulted from a turf war over fishing grounds.…
Businesswoman found guilty of trafficking cocaine
City Magistrate Dylon Bess on Friday found a 35-year-old businesswoman guilty of trafficking over five pounds of cocaine in 2017.
Joy Jacqueline Caines, who owns a boutique, was convicted for having 2.092 kilograms of cocaine in her…
Smartphones, news reports create ‘cognition’ that crime is on the increase – Ramjattan
Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan on Thursday boasted of a decrease in serious crimes under his administration and said any perception of an increase is due to the increased access to smartphones and the negative front pages of…
Cuban butcher killed on the way to work
Police are investigating the murder of 34-year-old Otredis Duarte Gonzales, a Cuban national, who was shot dead on Cummings Street between Middle and Quamina streets, Georgetown at about 06:44hrs Thursday.
Police Headquarters in a…
Cop charged with sexual assault of woman
A 27-year-old Police Constable appeared before the Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan Wednesday charged with sexually assaulting a woman.
Shane Tobin pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that during the month of February 2020, he…
Silver Hill residents charged with murder of ex-soldier
Two men and a woman were remanded to prison Wednesday for the murder of former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Daniel Jermaine Forde, who was fatally beaten by residents of Silver Hill Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
Courtney Wolfe,…
House collapses in Campbellville
A wooden two-storey house collapsed in First Street, Campbellville, Georgetown around midday on Wednesday. There are no reported casualties as no one was inside the house at the time.
Residents had claimed that an elderly woman was…
Police nab Berbice gangs fingered in several robberies
Berbice Police have arrested and charged several men who were part of two gangs which terrorised residents of the county.
Police said that at about 21:20hrs on February 13, they intercepted a motorcar on the No. 51 Public Road,…
22-Y-0 suspected bandit had criminal record; mother collapses at the scene
By Isanella Patoir
Twenty-two-year-old Randy Bowen who was shot and killed in William Street, Campbellville, Georgetown Tuesday afternoon, was previously charged and remanded for robbery.
Bowen lived with his mother in Duncan Street,…
