January 16, 2013
CLAIRMONT Wright, of Lot 2269 Osama Street, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was ordered to post $1M bail yesterday following a petition to Justice Roxanne George in the Berbice High Court.
January 16, 2013
JUSTICE Roxanne George, yesterday, refused bail to Brazilian Lucas Rodriques De Oliveira after his documentation revealed that he had overstayed his time in this country. Last December 8, De
January 16, 2013
TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Althea Lewis, who had attempted to throw cannabis (marijuana) over the wall of the New Amsterdam Prison in Berbice, was sentenced to two years imprisonment yesterday. Magistrate Adela
January 16, 2013
THE mother of a mentally challenged teenager who was raped, allegedly by a mini-bus driver recently, is appealing to the relevant authorities to legislate stiffer penalties for sex felons.
January 16, 2013
MAGISTRATE Adela Nagamootoo, yesterday, imposed a one-year jail sentence on Audrey Cummings who had two grammes of cocaine in her crotch when Police carried out a search at her
January 16, 2013
THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that Jermaine Willings of Lot 262 Hope, East Coast Demerara, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following investigations into
January 16, 2013
LEADER of the opposition, David Granger, recently tabled a Motion in the House in which he is asking for the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to investigate
January 16, 2013
THE Guyana Sex Workers Coalition has repeated its earlier calls for amendments to and/or abolishment of the present Buggery Act, which it feels discriminates against gays, lesbians and transgender
June 18, 2009
Accused set fire to building, killing three, jury told JUSTICE James Bovell-Drakes and a Demerara Assize jury yesterday heard how the broken marriage of Arshad Ali, called George, led
June 18, 2009
MINISTER of Local Government and Regional Development Mr. Kellawan Lall said yesterday that Commissioner of the Inquiry set up to investigate the proceedings at City Hall, Mr. Keith Burrowes,
June 18, 2009
MINISTER of Local Government and Regional Development Mr. Kellawan Lall said yesterday that Commissioner of the Inquiry set up to investigate the proceedings at City Hall, Mr. Keith Burrowes,
June 18, 2009
Special Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin in the ongoing case against ex-Army officer Oliver Hinckson, accused of advocating a terrorist act, yesterday applied to the court to re-open the case. But
June 18, 2009
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to
June 17, 2009
LEON Thomas, 32, of Lot 54 Lime and Bent Streets, Werk-en-Rust, was yesterday refused bail when he appeared in Court charged, again, with impersonating a peace officer. Before Acting
June 17, 2009
RUDOLPH Walcott, 47, of Lot 137 Alexander Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was yesterday bonded to keep the peace for one year, on conviction for using threatening language. Before Acting Chief
June 17, 2009
DEVON Searles, 27, of Lot ‘II’ Bent Street, Wortmanville, was yesterday remanded to prison overnight, by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, on charges of conspiracy and uttering a forged
June 17, 2009
Constable Nigel Craig appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with unlawful wounding. Craig, 39, of Alness, Corentyne, Berbice, pleaded not guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding Delon
June 17, 2009
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