Five serving members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have been charged and are to face court martial proceedings for allegedly robbing miners in the Cuyuni mining district.
The GDF last evening announced that it had charged an officer and four other ranks under military law based on “sufficient evidence” from an ongoing investigation into recent attacks. With the cooperation of miners, it said, the officer and ranks “were positively identified as being present and entering the mining camps.”
The actions of the officer and ranks, who are now detained in Camp Ayanganna,