Since November 2006, there have been at least seven discoveries of grenades outside of state security agencies but police and some security experts believe that the presence of these explosive devices in the public domain is not a cause for concern.
In most of the cases only a single grenade was found though there was an occasion when four were found hidden in a city house and another where five devices were discovered hidden in a Guyanese vessel that was intercepted in St. Lucian waters. In a few of these cases, the devices were hurled at buildings and in one case, a vehicle.
Police Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said there are many isolated cases of grenades being discovered “so we don’t see it as a problem”. He told Stabroek News in a recent interview that