How this works
Citizen Alert Guyana collects public-safety information from sources that already publish it, adds community reports, and puts the result on one map. The rule behind everything here is simple: machines sort, people publish.
Sources are checked every few minutes
Government feeds, the Civil Defence Commission, the weather service and Guyana’s news outlets are polled continuously. The same event reported by four outlets becomes one incident, not four.
A classifier sorts, it does not decide
Software works out what kind of incident an item describes and roughly where it happened. It can be wrong, so what it produces is a suggestion — never a publication.
Routine incidents publish automatically; anything about people does not
Traffic, weather, fire and utility items from vetted sources appear on the map straight away, written from a template — category, area, time. Crime and community reports are never published automatically, from any source. An operator reads them first.
Locations are blurred where it matters
Public-safety incidents are shown as an approximate area, never an exact address. The precise location never leaves the operations console.
Corrections travel as far as the original
Nothing is quietly deleted. If something is resolved, or turns out to be false, it is marked as such — and anyone who was alerted gets the correction.
What this platform will never do
- Name or picture a suspect, or publish a licence plate.
- Ask anyone to look for, follow, or confront a person.
- Offer a reward or run a manhunt.
- Publish an exact address for a crime.
- Send alarming language to make you open the app.
These are not preferences — they are built into how the software works, and they are the reason some things you might expect to see here are missing on purpose.
See also: what we collect and safety resources.