Man found working for Security company whose license was revoked by Benn after woman’s murder

August 20, 2025

By Leroy Smith

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, the Guyana Police Force released a Facebook statement about 36-year-old Dwight Gibbs, called ‘Limpy’, who was charged and had paid a court fine for discharging a loaded firearm.

Interestingly, the police did not mention the name of the security company Gibbs was attached to when he committed the offence.

It turns out the information police have in their system records Gibbs as working for Omkar Persaud Security Service (OPSS) at the time he committed the offence. OPSS is a security Service whose weapons were all recalled, seized, and its security license revoked just over a year ago by Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn. This was done after a security guard from the company murdered a young woman on the East Coast Demerara.

Stephan Hope, employed by OPSS at the time, went to another location, borrowed a rifle, and went into Dazzle Housing Scheme, where he murdered Ishanti Liverpool. Liverpool was the twin sister of Hope’s ex-girlfriend. Hope had mistaken her for his ex-girlfriend, whom he intended to murder.

Minister Benn himself visited the scene of the crime in the wee hours of that fatal morning and offered comfort to the relatives and promised them swift justice at the level of the police. It was also while on the ground that he passed the instructions for the revocation of the license and seizure of all guns from OPSS.

On Saturday, August 16, 202,5, the Geology and Mines Commission held a Porknocker Day event at Puruni Landing, and it was there at Gibbs, who was armed with a 12-gauge shotgun bearing serial number 529039 and who was earlier consuming alcohol, discharged rounds from the weapon into the air.

Police official records reflect Gibbs’ address as Lot 87, Diamond New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, and that at the time of the shooting incident, he was employed as a Supernumerary Constable employed with Omkar Persaud Security Service located at Lot 28, Crown Dam Industry, East Coast Demerara for the past two months.

This publication has since reached out to the Guyana Police Force Corporate Communications Unit Head for a comment on this matter, but up to press time, no response was given.