Sharda Bacchus

While it presents some challenges to operate even after training is conducted, Portable Video Recording (PVR) also called body cameras are being used by ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Region 4B Commander related how the device helped clarify matters in one case where a complaint had been raised.

A 21-year-old man succumbed on Monday, days after he was brutally stabbed while liming at a bar in Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and his family is calling for justice amidst fears that his attacker has left the country.

Based on legal advice, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday announced that no criminal charges will be laid against the cops accused of torturing teenager Jaheim Peters while in custody at the Vigilance Police Station.

The father of Jaheim Peters, the teen who was allegedly tortured while in custody at the Vigilance Police station, says more witnesses are coming forward to support his son’s account of the incident, placing two ranks of the station as the ones responsible for the act.

Government through a partnership with Mount Sinai Health System and oil company Hess Corporation on Friday announced major plans to transform national healthcare, including the overhaul of both the public and private health systems, and setting up of oncology and cardiovascular centres of excellence. 

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) handles over 70,000 driver’s licences and records at least 300,000 visits every year and Commissioner-General, Godfrey Statia is encouraging persons to utilize its online services in order to ease the daily build-up at the agency’s headquarters.

The capacity of the Night Shelter at East La Penitence, Georgetown, has been increased following a recent $5 million upgrade of the facility, which included the construction of a new wing.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud on Friday announced that all persons living with permanent disabilities as well as cancer patients and people living with HIV will benefit from lifetime public assistance.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud today announced that all persons living with permanent disabilities as well as those with HIV and cancer patients will now benefit from lifetime public assistance.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn has described the police action in trailing Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton as an “untidy, unnecessary and useless” exercise.

Police have arrested four suspects, one of whom fatally stabbed a 23-year-old security guard yesterday morning at East Ruimveldt Squatting Area, Georgetown over an old feud.

It has been over a week since a 50-year-old father of two disappeared after he was struck down on exiting a taxi at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and his family is demanding answers.

A new $37m fire station was yesterday commissioned at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn reminded fire-fighters that they must always be “ready, responsible, capable and engaged” as the responsiveness to fires has always been an issue which they should not fail at.

Police are on the hunt for a lone gunman who shot and killed a Ministry of Health driver at his Sophia home on Thursday night in the presence of two of his children.

Life has changed drastically and will probably never be the same again for Shameeza Bhagwandat, a single-parent mother who lost her only child in February this year after he was involved in an accident.

A taxi driver died yesterday morning after he lost control of the motorcar he was driving along the Windsor Forest Public Road, West Coast Demerara and two children were injured.

Although it was initially suspected that Paishnarine Hansraj, 25, and Justin Teixeira, 34, the two men found dead in the Guyana Marriott Hotel parking lot on Saturday, may have overdosed on a drug, investigators have been told that a substance found near them is suspected to be sodium cyanide, a poison which can be fatal in small doses.

Police are investigating the death of two men, whose bodies were discovered in a car in the Marriott Hotel parking lot at Kingston early this morning.

Incidents of wounding, domestic violence and assaults are some of the most prevalent crimes in the community of Baramita, in Region One, and Police Commander Superintendent Himnauth Sawh has said that the necessary actions are being taken to tackle the social issues at their root, which he described as “manageable” “I am pleased to report that I am aware of those issues and I have already begun to make efforts with my teams across the region to ensure that we get greater community involvement because most of those issues are social issues and we as the police can’t tackle it alone.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh yesterday called for a “rapid and visible” reinvention of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) so that the organisation can function in a “new” mode of operation.