At about 0430h today, police say that a patron at a night spot on Main Street, Georgetown, observed a man attempting to break into his motor vehicle and discharged a round from a firearm at the man.
At about 0535h today, the police say that Police Constable 14716 Kirk Profitt was walking along Bent Street, Georgetown, when he was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) this afternoon said that an intensive search is on for a Trans Guyana Cessna Caravan which is believed to have gone down somewhere between Olive Creek and Imbaimadai.
The man who was shot during an attempted robbery yesterday at the home of businessman Ishwar Jeffrey at Annandale North, ECD, was seriously injured to his face and not fatally shot as was inadvertently stated in a press release on the incident yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Guyanese nationals have featured prominently as both “overstayers and undocumented migrant workers” in this country, according to statistics from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s Crime and Problem Analysis Branch (CAPA), a research report on invisible immigrants has stated.
Reports that four prison officers assaulted 23-year-old alleged baton-rape victim Colwyn Harding surfaced yesterday, triggering a fresh wave of protests while a witness to the alleged beating her suffered at the Timehri Police Station has come forward.
Guyana has registered its highest score in eight years on the Wall Street Journal/ Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom but remains listed among “the mostly economically unfree” countries.
Reeling from a spike in armed robberies in villages along the Corentyne Coast, some villagers have formed themselves into vigilante groups to patrol their communities at night.
Litterbugs who dispose of garbage in public places and out of vehicles can be fined $50,000 under new anti-littering rules laid in the National Assembly on Thursday.
Senior doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday said signs of the alleged rape were not seen at any time since Colwyn Harding’s hospitalisation last month and that he did not tell any of the medical staff attending to him that he had been sexually assaulted with a baton by police.
A man who had threatened to kill the mother of his two children was wounded when he broke into her Number 4 Village, West Coast Berbice home yesterday, while he in turn wounded another man who managed to overpower him.
An overseas-based Guy-anese man and his adult son died yesterday after they were struck down by a car on the Public Road at Land of Plenty, Essequibo Coast.
The investigation into the death of four-year-old Jaden Mars at the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal in December has not found anyone culpable, according to Chief Executive Officer Michael Khan.
An amendment to the Evidence Act, passed on Thursday in Parliament, will now make it easier for mothers in paternity disputes to prove their case in a court of law as well as speed up the presentation of evidence in other matters.
President Donald Ramotar, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has approved the promotion of 348 members of the Guyana Defence Force in accordance with the Defence Act Chapter 15:01, of 1977.