Grenade found near offices of newspaper in Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Guyana police Saturday night cordoned off the streets to the Kaieteur News after a grenade was found near the newspaper’s office where colleagues had gathered to pay respects to journalist, Dale Andrews, who had earlier.
Andrews, the paper’s leading crime reporter, died of a suspected heart attack.
The staff reported that the grenade had been discovered after they heard a “rolling sound” and lawmen said they found the device close to the car of the newspaper’s publisher, Glen Lall.
Police investigators are expected to view surveillance video of the area. This is not the first occasion that the newspaper have come under attack. In August 2006, gunmen shot and killed four members of the company when they invaded the printing plant and in another case staffers were held at gunpoint in the newsroom during a robbery.
