Security guard charged with murder of Arima man

A 34-year-old Waller­field se­cu­ri­ty guard has ap­peared be­fore the High Court charged with the mur­der of a 33-year-old Ari­ma man who was fa­tal­ly stabbed dur­ing an in­ci­dent at a bar last month.

Emer­ald Guy ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter of the High Court Lisa Singh-Phillip last Fri­day charged with the mur­der of Calvin James.

Dur­ing the court hear­ing, Singh-Phillip set a Suf­fi­cien­cy Hear­ing for Jan­u­ary 13, 2027. Two Sta­tus Hear­ings were al­so sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 28, 2026, and Oc­to­ber 30, 2026.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, James was stabbed and killed at a bar in the Ari­ma dis­trict on Sun­day, June 27, 2026.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said a male sus­pect sur­ren­dered to of­fi­cers at the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion lat­er that same day and was sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the killing.

The charge against Guy was laid fol­low­ing le­gal ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard, SC, on Ju­ly 1, 2026.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was su­per­vised by ASP (Ag.) Vic­tor, Sgt. Rad­haykisson and PC Subi­ah of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI), Re­gion Two. Guy was for­mal­ly charged by WPC Mo­hammed, al­so at­tached to HBI Re­gion Two.

The case will now pro­ceed through the pre-tri­al process, with the sched­uled sta­tus hear­ings ex­pect­ed to ad­dress mat­ters re­lat­ed to dis­clo­sure and case man­age­ment ahead of the suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing next year.

A suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing is con­duct­ed to de­ter­mine whether the pros­e­cu­tion has pre­sent­ed enough ev­i­dence for the mat­ter to pro­ceed to tri­al be­fore a judge and ju­ry.

If the court finds that the ev­i­dence meets the re­quired le­gal thresh­old, the case will be com­mit­ted to the High Court for tri­al.

Guy re­mains be­fore the court as the crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings con­tin­ue. No plea was en­tered, as in­dictable of­fences such as mur­der are not plead­ed in the Mag­is­trates' Court or be­fore a Mas­ter dur­ing the ini­tial stages of the pro­ceed­ings.