Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine has confirmed that notorious prison escapee Mark Royden Durant aka Royden Williams and Smallie was intercepted and recaptured tonight at approximately 8 pm on the Weldaad, West Coast Berbice public road.
Police have arrested the suspected mastermind behind the murders of Constance Fraser, 89, and Phyllis Caesar, 77, who were killed last Tuesday in their South Road and Albert Street home.
The body of the man believed to have murdered policewoman Kenesha Sheriff Fraser has been found hanging from a tree at Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice and her relatives are baffled.
ExxonMobil Corporation today announced it made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana.
Rape accused Dellon Blake, 35, has escaped from Holding Bay 2 at the Lusignan Prison.
Two elderly women were this morning found dead, bound and gagged in their South Road and Albert Street house.
The police say they are investigating the fatal beatings of two Industry, East Coast Demerara men in separate incidents.
The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) today said that Tiffini Collison, 26-years-old of F 21 Samaan Street Guyhoc Park, Georgetown posted four hammocks suspected to have been saturated with cocaine to an address in the USA through an International Courier Service in Georgetown sometime last week.
A family preparing for a memorial service today was attacked by armed bandits in East La Penitence and one brother succumbed to bullet wounds and two others have been admitted to hospital.
Uree Varswyk, one of the escapees from the Camp Street prison on July 9th has been shot dead by the police in an operation in Linden, according to the Department of Public Information.
Rhonda Blair, a co-proprietor of the Stretch D Dollar franchise in Berbice was stabbed to death in the wee hours of this morning and her husband, Rudolph later took his own life.
A reward of $10 Million is being offered by the Guyana Police Force for information leading to the arrest of the remaining four prison escapees, Cobena Stephens, Paul Goriah, Uree Varswyck and Mark Royden Durant..
Three workers of Cevons Waste Management Inc were this morning held for allegedly attempting to smuggle marijuana and cigarettes into the Lusignan Prison, Prison Director (ag) Gladwin Samuels has confirmed.
The Department of Public Information today released the names of prisoners injured in Saturday’s melee at the Lusignan prison.
Shawn Harris, who escaped from the Lusignan holding area on Monday was recaptured today at a house at Mocha, East Bank Demerara, the police confirmed.
Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine this evening said that Lusignan Prison escapee Kerry Cromwell is back in police custody.
Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine today confirmed to the Department of Public Information (DPI) that acting on information provided by the public the Joint Services executed an operation at approximately midday today in the East Ruimveldt ward of Georgetown which led to a confrontation with Lusignan Prison escapee Clive Forde aka El Sinkie.
Murder accused Stafrei Alexander, who was one of the six inmates who escaped from the Camp Street Prison on July 9, has been recaptured.
Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels late this afternoon confirmed that at approximately 16:20hrs today inmates at the holding area of the Lusignan Prison were involved in a series of assaults and aggressive behaviour which resulted in extreme disorder and threatened their own safety, that of the joint services members providing security and could have escalated further and compromise the integrity of the facility.
Murder accused Pascal Smith, one of the prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison pasture on Monday, was apprehended today.
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