Sharda Bacchus

Investigators suspect that Chinese businessman Liyan Jiang, who was found bound and gagged in his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home on Thursday night, was killed during a robbery.

Residents of Cameron Dam, Canal Number One said that murder accused Desmond James was hiding in an unfinished wooden shack along the dam since Friday after he was taken into the area allegedly by a female resident.

Taxi driver Matthew Shivtahal, who says he was abducted by four of the men who broke out of the Camp Street jail on Sunday, yesterday credited his one-year-old son as the reason why the men spared his life.

A gunman was fatally shot, while two of his accomplices were captured yesterday morning after their brazen attempt to rob the Republic Bank branch on Water Street, Georgetown, turned into a hair-raising shootout with guards and the police.

Armed bandits, posing as customers, yesterday robbed the popular ‘White Shop’ grocery store at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, from where they stole some $400,000 in cash, jewellery, and other items, before shooting one of the proprietor’s sons as they fled.

Before taking her final breath, an Amelia’s Ward mother of five yesterday wrote in sand that it was her husband who had fatally stabbed her and he was later held by police, who shot him when they cornered him in a wooded area.

Detective Assistant Superintendent Mitchell Novar Caesar, who believes that he has been living his dream for the past 25 years since he joined the Guyana Police Force, was recently awarded as first runner-up Caribbean Crime Fighter of the year.

The Ministry of Education Schools Welfare Department has since intervened in the incident which resulted in the death of ten-year-old Roseann Akeila Harris and her mother is calling for an explanation on why a doctor was unable to determine her child’s injury despite conducting several examinations and a blood test.

  More than a dozen people lost their homes after a fire, suspected to have been deliberately set, ripped through three buildings, including a beer garden, located at Sandy Babb and Railway streets, Kitty, Georgetown early yesterday morning.

A Chinese business was counting its losses yesterday morning after a fire destroyed sections of a building on Robb Street, Georgetown, which housed a variety store, while the occupants of neighbouring properties were breathing a sigh of relief after quick action by firefighters prevented the blaze from spreading.

One day after four men were charged with the murder of carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt, the Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for US based-Guyanese, Marcus Brian Bisram, who is said to be the mastermind and is wanted for questioning in connection with the crime.

A So Ruimveldt man was shot dead yesterday morning after he and an uncle broke into an Albouystown house to confront another man over a bicycle.

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed a Triumph, East Coast Demerara house yesterday morning, leaving a police officer and his family counting millions of dollars in losses.

A young man was shot dead early yesterday morning while his friend was injured after an argument ended in gunfire in front of the Rio Inn Nightclub in Queenstown.

An infant and his seven-year-old sister were killed during the wee hours of yesterday morning after their father lost control of the car transporting them and crashed into two parked vehicles along the Blankenburg Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

An autopsy has found that Malika Hamilton, the 14-year-old whose body was pulled out of the Hope Canal on Tuesday, died as a result of asphyxiation compounded by trauma to the neck and police are treating her death as a murder.

The village of Hope, East Coast Demerara was rocked yesterday after the body of a 14-year-old girl was pulled out of the Hope Canal, one day after she went missing.

A Wales Estate tractor operator died on Monday evening after he was stabbed during an argument, while his assailant is in police custody awaiting a formal charge.

Sophia residents yesterday decided that they had had enough and blocked sections of Dennis Street to protest dust pollution in the area caused by incomplete works on the road.

A single mother made several efforts over the past four years to get her daughter out of an abusive relationship which ended last week when she was chopped to death.