By News Source Guyana on June 28, 2018
Crime
Three persons were today slapped with trafficking in persons charges when they appeared before the Chief Magistrate. They have all been remanded to prison. The three, Amanda Gould and husband and wife, June and Laurence Willams, were not required to enter a plea to the indictable charges. The Court was told that over a period […]
By News Source Guyana on June 28, 2018
News, Politics
The Ministry of Education released the results of the National Grade Six Assessment Examinations this afternoon, showing improvements in the English performances but a decline in Mathematics, with Science and Social Studies remaining steady. This year’s top pupil is Nalia Rahaman from the Westfield Prep School in Georgetown. She gained a perfect score of 529 […]
By News Source Guyana on June 28, 2018
Crime, News, Politics
Former Guyana Member of Parliament, who once served as Mayor of Linden, Abdul Kadir, has died. He was in his mid 60’s. Kadir passed away in a US prison this morning, where he was serving a life sentence on a conviction of conspiring to commit a terrorist attack at New York’s JFK Airport almost a […]
By News Source Guyana on June 27, 2018
News, Politics
More drama unfolded at the Guyana Public Service Credit Union on Hadfield Street this morning as the Police had to be called in when management refused to open the gate and doors to be served with a Court order. That order has quashed the injunction that was earlier obtained by the credit union’s management against […]
By News Source Guyana on June 27, 2018
Crime
Two weeks after being slapped with fraud charges, a real estate agent was back in Court today facing five additional fraud charges. He is being accused of selling land that he did not own or was authorized to sell. 22-year-old, Basdeo Persaud stood before Magistrate, Fabayo Azore and denied all five charges when they were […]
By News Source Guyana on June 27, 2018
News
Residents of Guyana’s Capital City, Georgetown are being promised a more reliable power supply accompanied by a reduction in power outages when a new energy management system comes on stream by 2020. The Government of Guyana and the Government of Japan signed the Grant Aid documents on Wednesday for the project: “Introduction of Renewable Energy and the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 26, 2018
Crime
In the Courtroom of the Chief Magistrate today, a domestic worker from Bartica was charged and remanded to jail for allegedly being in possession of cocaine and marijuana. 58-year-old Roxanne Carrington was arrested over the weekend after Police ranks found over three pounds of cocaine and five pounds of marijuana in her bedroom during a […]
By News Source Guyana on June 26, 2018
News, Politics
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has declared that he will be working “harder now” to ensure the PPP wins the next elections, in wake of the decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice to uphold the Presidential term limits to Guyana’s Constitution. At an afternoon press conference, Mr. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 26, 2018
Crime
A labourer who repeatedly maintained that his ex-lover fell on a knife that he had in his possession and he did not stab her, was committed to stand a High Court trial for attempted murder today. The accused, Cleveland Williams, offered an apology to his ex-lover in Court today even as he made an application […]
By News Source Guyana on June 26, 2018
News, Politics
-by Kurt Campbell- The Legal Team which represented the Government of Guyana in the Presidential Term Limit Appeal case at the Caribbean Court of Justice, has welcomed the Court’s decision in upholding the changes that were made to the Constitution. Solicitor General Kim Kyte and Barbadian Attorneys Ralph Thorne and Hal Gollop celebrated as they […]