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Friday, October 11, 2013
There have been at least 100 murders in Guyana for the year and police have recorded a 12 percent rise in robberies where firearms were used, according to the Police Public Relations Department.
Reports coming out of Guyana indicate that there were 98 recorded murders at the end of September 2013; matching the recorded number of murders for the same period in 2012.
Of the 98 murders this year, 41 were of the disorderly type, 19 were committed during armed robberies, two were execution-type, and 13 were domestic related, while the other 23 are so far undetermined. There have also been at least four other murders within the past ten days of this month. Three were disorderly-type murders while one occurred during a robbery at Hampshire, Corentyne. These deaths push the murder rate beyond 100.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Department also stated that at the end of September 2013, robbery under arms had increased by six percent, with 798 reports compared to 751 for the same period in 2012. The statistics indicate an increase of 12 percent in the number of armed robberies involving the use of firearms and a three percent decrease in armed robberies where instruments other than firearms were used by the perpetrators.
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