TWO sisters of 111 Miles, Mahdia, who are facing damage to property charges were granted $100,000 bail each yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. 

Thirty-seven-year-old Abiola Calder, a cook, and her 48-year-old sister, Claudine Calder, a housewife, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and pleaded not guilty to three charges.
Particulars of the first charge said that on Thursday, May 1 at Baksh Night Club, Mahdia, they damaged one DX 200 driver valued $235,000, property of Rajendra Singh.
The second allegation stated that on the same day they also damaged one Yamaha keyboard, one digital camera and a cellular phone, together valued $612,000, property of Troy Miller.
They duo was also charged with unlawful assault causing actual bodily harm committed on Miller and was placed on their recognisance for this offence.
Police Inspector Michael Grant, prosecuting, said the facts are as charged and he did not object to their pretrial liberty.
They were both represented by attorney-at-law Mr. Adrian Thompson, who told the court that both of his clients already posted station bail. He assured the court that the duo is not a flight risk and had been reporting to the police since the allegation.
They were both ordered to post $50,000 surety on each of the damage to property charges and the case was transferred to Mabaruma Court for May 19.
Written By Geeta Rampersaud