Tag: violent crime
Man stabbed in neck, woman arrested
(CNS): A 34-year-old woman from George Town was arrested on suspicion of wounding last night and remains in police custody, while a man is in hospital in serious but stable condition. Police responded to a report of the serious assault at around 10:30pm Wednesday at a home on Patrick’s Avenue, Prospect. According to the RCIPS, […]
Detective says ‘Deebo’ murder still a live inquiry
(CNS): The investigation into who killed Damean Dwayne Seymour (34), better known as “Deebo”, is still an active inquiry in which police are pursuing a number of leads that have led them to look for his killer overseas. At a Coroners Court hearing on Friday, Detective Inspector Adeniyi Collins Oremule told a jury that Seymour’s […]
Two men shot outside Dump Road bar
(CNS): One man is in hospital in critical condition after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds outside the Everglo bar on Seymour Drive (aka Dump Road) in the early hours of Monday morning, when a gunman approached the bar and opened fire. A second man was also shot but was only grazed on the head. Police said […]
One man shot, one man hit on head in bar brawl
(CNS): One man has been shot in the groin and a second man hit on the head with an object during a barroom brawl outside the Jungle Room at Trafalgar Place, on the West Bay Road, at about 2am on Saturday, 5 June. Four men were said to have been involved who were all known […]
Man chopped in face at gas station brawl
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a man accused of chopping another man in the face with a machete during a fight at a George Town gas station. Police said that the two men, who know each other, were involved in an altercation at around 7:40pm Wednesday night at the Rubis station on Eastern […]
Man sustains head injuries in assault
(CNS): Police are looking for witnesses to a mysterious assault that happened somewhere in the Mount Pleasant area of West Bay just after 8:45pm on Monday. The only details offered by the RCIPS of the incident was that emergency services were called to an unspecified location in the neighbourhood, where they found a man with […]
Victim assaulted in George Town home invasion
(CNS): A man was taken to hospital on Tuesday night after he was assaulted by an armed home invader. The police said that two masked men, dressed in black clothing and brandishing handguns, entered a home on Anthony Drive in George Town at around 9:50pm and demanded money. After assaulting the resident of the house […]
Man guilty of hatchet attack over $20 loan
(CNS): Gioser Acosta Gonzalez has been found guilty of wounding with intent after he attacked a man with a hatchet, wounding him in the head, during an argument over a $20 loan. Justice Roger Chapple convicted Gonzalez on Monday after hearing the case without a jury in a short trial at the end of March. […]
Two men stabbed during fight in BT
(CNS): Three men were involved in a fight at a house in North Sound Estates, Bodden Town, on Saturday evening and two of them were seriously wounded, according to an RCIPS release. Officers were called to the scene at around 6pm, where they were told that both the injured men had been taken to hospital […]
Mac planned counter-motion on MP violence
(CNS): The controversy surrounding Speaker McKeeva Bush shows no sign of abating, regardless of the premier’s move to bring the election forward by six weeks. On Friday morning Bush called in to a radio talk show and revealed that he had planned to file a counter-motion to the no confidence one filed by the opposition. […]
Violent assault case remains stalled
(CNS): More than two years after Jeffery Powery (33) was first charged with attempted murder in connection with a serious assault on his mother at her home in West Bay, the case remains stalled for a catalogue of legal reasons. Powery admitted the violent attack, which happened in December 2018 , when he pleaded guilty […]
