Daily Archive: Saturday, April 2, 2022

Articles published on Saturday, April 2, 2022

Best Graduating Student Constable Travis Hercules (left) receives an award from Crime Chief, Snr Supt Wendell Blanhum (Guyana Police Force photo)

Police force has 66 new detectives

The Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigation Department throughout the twelve Regional Police Divisions is soon expected to be strengthened, as 66 ranks yesterday successfully completed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Induction Course.                                                                                                                                                                                            A release from the police said that small graduation ceremony was held at the Officers’ Training Centre, Camp Road, where the participants were presented with certificates.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Present at the ceremony were Crime Chief, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum; Officer-in-Charge of the Narcotics Branch, Superintendent Karl Wilson; Force Training Officer, Superintendent Keithon King and Officer-in-Charge of the Major Crimes Unit, Assistant Superintendent Mitchell Caesar.                                                                                                                                                                                        The course started on February 14, 2022, and lasted for seven weeks during which the participants were exposed to fifty-two core topics critical to conducting criminal investigations, which were conducted by members of the Force as well as external personnel.                                                                                                                                                                                     Some of the topics and areas that the participants were trained in are:  *Homicide Investigations                           *Integrity and Ethics in Law Enforcement *Drug identification/Investigation              *Money Laundering Investigation *Cyber Crimes Investigation                      *Sexual Offences *Robberies                                                  *Missing Persons Investigation *Profiling of Prisoners, and;                                    *Handwriting Examination  Crime Chief Blanhum who addressed the new detectives congratulated the participants while reminding them that “an effective Police Force is one that prevents and detects crimes in an efficient manner”, and as CID ranks they have to work as a team to be successful.

Good marks for IPED from regional credit rating body

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) has gotten a good rating from regional credit rating body CariCRIS, Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS) in a statement on Thursday said it has assigned initial corporate credit ratings of CariBBB (Local Currency Rating) and CariBBB- (Foreign Currency Rating) on its regional scale, gyA+ (Local Currency Rating) and gyA (Foreign Currency Rating) on the Guyana national scale to IPED.

 Amid trash talk yesterday, the locally based combatants for the ‘Guyana Fight Night Road to Redemption’ card inked their respective contracts at the headquarters of the boxing board at the Avenue of the Republic.

Contracts signed for Road to Redemption card

The contracts are in for the return of professional boxing. Amid trash talk yesterday, the locally based combatants for the ‘Guyana Fight Night Road to Redemption’ card inked their respective contracts at the headquarters of the boxing board at the Avenue of the Republic.

Privilege

Privilege is blinding. Sometimes it is hard to recognise because those steeped in it embrace it as a natural way of life, and expect everyone else to just accept its inescapable chaos and unfairness as realities.

Urban vs Rural

Like many countries, Guyana is a land of several divides – the most obvious being one of race, a tragic legacy of empire and a subject thoroughly discussed over the years.