A TEACHER of Princeton College, in Manget Place, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty yesterday, charged with assault and using abusive language.
Aluka Jarvis pleaded not guilty to both charges, which alleged that on Friday, July 12, in Manget Place, he assaulted his student, Ashana Griffith, so as to cause her actual bodily harm and abused her.

According to the virtual complainant, who still attends the institution, she does not wish to offer any evidence against the defendant.
Jarvis was fined $2,000 and bonded to keep the peace for six months.                     

Husband to pay fine, bonded for wife abuse   
MICHAEL Allen, of Lot 3 Railway Line, Kitty, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty yesterday, charged with using  abusive and threatening language to his wife, Samaria.   
He pleaded not guilty to the charge that alleged he abused the woman  on Friday, July 12, at Lot 3 Railway Line, Kitty, but admitted that, the same day, he threatened her.
Police Inspector Colin Primus, prosecuting, told the court that the defendant, who is an habitual drinker, started to abuse his wife because she did not cook.
The husband claimed that he works as a security guard and, on his returning from the work site, there was nothing to eat.
The magistrate asked the defendant why he did not buy something and he responded that he gives his wife all the money at the end of the week.
The virtual complainant indicated that she does not wish to go ahead with the case and the magistrate, taking into consideration the fact that the defendant is an elderly man, fined him $5,000 and bonded him to keep the peace for six months.

Relatives put on bond for abusing each other
RITA Persaud and Kevin Johnson (no addresses given) both appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty yesterday, on the individual charge of using abusive language.
They each pleaded guilty, admitting that, on Friday, July 12, at La Penitence, Georgetown, they abused each other.
Attorney-at-law, Mr. Paul Fung-a-Fat, for Persaud, informed the court that the two defendants are related and declined to proceed with the cases.
However, Persaud and Johnson were each fined $2,000 and put on individual bonds to keep the peace for six months.

Canadian on abusive language charges granted $20,000 bail
A FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Canadian was slapped with two charges of abusive language before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty yesterday.
Farad Hamid, a systems analyst from Toronto, Canada, pleaded not guilty to the offences that alleged, on Friday, July 12, at Stabroek Market, Georgetown, he abused Sheik Raheem Samad and Oshan Scott.
The defendant gave his Guyana address as Lot 286 Irving Street, Georgetown, where he said he resides with his wife.  
Police Inspector Colin Primus, prosecuting, had no objection to bail and Hamid was ordered to post $20,000 until August 16.     

Defendant alleging beating granted bail above police objection
SCRAP iron dealer Ricardo Fernandez, 40, of Lot 611 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown, was granted $50,000 bail yesterday, on a simple larceny charge.
Before Magistrate Faith McGusty, he pleaded not guilty to the offence, particulars of which said, on Saturday, July 13, on Hope Street, Georgetown, in the vicinity of New Thriving Restaurant, he stole two truck batteries valued $ 64,000, property of Josh Charles.
Police Inspector Colin Primus, prosecuting, had objected to the grant of pre-trial liberty for the defendant, based on the value of the stolen articles and the prevalence of the crime.
However, the magistrate overruled the objection and postponed the case to July 31.
The defendant had, earlier, complained that the virtual complainant accused him of the theft and beat him. But, after someone said something to Charles, he released him and he was, subsequently, apprehended and taken to the mobile police outpost.            

Wounding during scuffle lands nephew in court
DEVON Garraway, a salesman of Humphrey’s Bakery was, yesterday, charged with unlawful wounding before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty.
The 20-year-old defendant, of Lot 144 Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, pleaded guilty to the offence, particulars of which said, on Friday, July 12, in Laing Avenue, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded his uncle, Akeem Williams.
The defendant told the court that he was watching television when the virtual complainant entered the room, told him he cannot do so and pulled out the plug several times.
He said Williams armed himself with a knife and they had a scuffle during which the other man got hurt while he was trying to defend himself.
Garraway explained that he and his uncle live in the same house and have an ongoing problem, with the latter trying to take advantage of him.
The defendant’s unnamed grandmother, who was in the courtroom, interjected and said she does not want the latter in the house “since it will cause murderation.”
However, a representative of Humphrey’s Bakery then informed the magistrate that the defendant would reside with her at Lot 2 Riverview, Ruimveldt and he was granted $30,000 bail and bonded to keep the peace pending the outcome of the case, which will be called, again, on July 31.