A fire yesterday, which reportedly started after gas bottles exploded in a Chinese Restaurant at Grove, East Bank Demerara, flattened four buildings and scorched a fifth, leaving behind millions of dollars in damage and some 29 people homeless.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday reported a 9% increase in the crime rate, which he said along with gang violence and its link to the entry of illegal firearms through border locations are causes for concern for the Guyana Police Force (GPF).
A Bourda Market grocer lost more that $1 million in cash and beverages in a burglary that left him yesterday questioning the response of the police force and the city constabulary.
The body of a woman was yesterday discovered tied up and with marks of violence in her ransacked Enmore, East Coast Demerara home and a tracker dog later led police to the home of a man with whom she had an ongoing feud.
A domestic row turned violent last night when a 41-year-old nursery school teacher was fatally stabbed in the head and her 19-year-old daughter lashed across the face with a bar.
Two persons, including a 17-year-old, were shot early yesterday morning after an alleged attempt to burglarise facilities at the Ramsarup GuyOil Service Station at Good Hope, Mahaica.
A Grove, East Bank Demerara family was held captive early yesterday morning during an hour-long rampage by bandits, who later fled with a motor car and more than one million dollars worth of money, jewellery and electronics.
Research has shown that many premature male school leavers turn to a life of crime and it is for this reason that the Education Ministry has embarked on a vigorous three-year campaign to reduce the drop out rate.
Two employees of Mohamed’s Enterprise have been dismissed and suspended respectively for their role in the recent beating and torturing of three security guards, the business’s owner Nazar Mohamed said yesterday as he apologized publicly for the incident.
-hunt on for teen Police are hunting an 18-year-old labourer who allegedly repeatedly knifed a 29-year-old man after being accused of stealing a cellular phone and cleaning out a bank account.
Years of drawn out court proceedings came to an end yesterday for two former employees of the New Building Society (NBS) when two fraud charges against them were discharged even as five others face a third.
Former Director/Secretary Maurice Arjoon and Amarita Prashad were this morning freed of any connection to the 2006 New Building Society (NBS) $69M fraud case which has been dragging along for over three years now.
An East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman said yesterday that if he had been granted his firearm licence he would have been better able to defend his wife, who was attacked just before midnight on Friday in a chilling attempted robbery that still has the couple terrified.
Years of drunken brawls and threats to kill each other sadly came to fruition yesterday when a man was stabbed with a broken bottle by his younger brother in Enmore North, East Coast Demerara.
Police officers yesterday afternoon fired shots at a fleeing prisoner outside of the Camp Street prison, wounding him and a bystander and raising questions about the way they reacted.
Sloppy work by a contractor hired by the Region One Administration has resulted in hundreds of students and teachers of the Port Kaituma Primary School being without an adequate water supply for several months; a situation that parents fear could lead to a health crisis.
– struggles to care for family, cries for justice The brutal murder of her husband has forced Zaleen Rasheeda to abandon her full-time housewife role and learn the salted fish trade to ensure that her five daughters are adequately cared for.
The police practice of issuing wanted bulletins for persons they want for questioning, but against whom no allegation has been made, has been described by lawyers as illegal, a form of “character assassination” and an abuse of the process that should be stopped.
– mother of Cummings Lodge murder victim says Justice may never come for Kamla Singh, whose daughter and grandson were among those killed at Cummings Lodge last month but she believes the police need to put some real effort into finding the gunmen.
A Route 41 minibus yesterday turned turtle several times on Norton Street before landing in a drain, resulting in injuries to at least fifteen persons including the driver, who up to last evening was in a critical condition.
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