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The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) today lashed out at critics of her decision to discontinue the private criminal charge that was filed by a Woman Police Constable against Attorney Nirvan Singh over Singh’s alleged use of racist statements toward the Police Constable. Last week, the DPP defended her decision to discontinue […]
One day after the Director of Public Prosecutions discontinued the private criminal charge that was filed by Woman Police Constable Shawnette Bollers against Attorney Nirvan Singh, the Police Constable picketed the DPP’s Office, pointing out that the DPP has stripped her of her right to be heard by the Court. The DPP did not give […]
Almost one month after female Supernumenary Constable Shawnette Bollers filed a private criminal charge against Attorney Nirvan Singh, accusing him of unlawfully exciting and attempting to excite racial hostility and ill will towards her, the Director of Public Prosecutions has discontinued the charge. At his first appearance to answer the charge in April, the Attorney […]
Six persons including two young children were injured today when the driver of the car that they were all in, lost control and flipped off the Soesdyke/Linden highway. A police report indicated that the accident occurred at around 11:40 this morning along the highway in the vicinity of the village of Yarrowkabra. The driver of […]
Five weeks after the brutal murder of 57-year-old East Coast Demerara resident Savitri Raj, the lifeless body of her husband, who was the only suspect in the murder, has been found. The partly decomposed body of 56-year-old Vijaimal Raj was found on Monday afternoon in the Enmore backlands. The discovery was made by a cattle […]
Five members of the Guyana Prison Service have completed training in the United States on responding to prison riots. In a statement, the US Embassy said the training addressed best practices in responding to prison riots and the entire programme was funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement […]
An early morning accident at Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara has claimed the life of a 25-year-old man and left a number of other persons nursing serious injuries. The accident which involved three vehicles occurred at 7:40 this morning. The dead man has been identified as Eshwar Arjune. A police report of the […]
A 22-year-old Bartica man was today charged and remanded to jail over the murder of a miner from the same Bartica community. The accused Kellorn Creighton was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. The incident took place on the 8th May at Third Avenue Bartica. According to investigators, the 24-year-old miner, […]
Less than a week after being convicted for attempting to extort $10 million from her ex-boyfriend, a 20-year-old East Bank Demerara woman is facing a charge of escaping from lawful custody. The woman, Princess Williams appeared in Court today before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs and pleaded not guilty to the charge of escaping from lawful custody. […]
Two men who were busted with 18 pounds of marijuana at Meadowbank on the East Bank Demerara are in Police custody and will face drug possession and trafficking charges soon. In a statement today, the Police Force said that ranks patrolling in the area noticed the two men fetching a blue plastic barrel into an […]
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