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The driver of a mini-bus and the driver of a truck that were involved in a fatal accident on Saturday that claimed the life of a 36-year-old man, have both been charged and remanded to prison for causing death by dangerous driving. Mini-bus driver, 31-year-old Colin Cumberbatch and truck driver, 55-year-old Kord Sobers, appeared in […]
A number of Venezuelan nationals who entered Guyana illegally and were nabbed during a joint services operation in the Iwokrama Protected Area reserve have been ordered deported after pleading guilty to illegal entry. They were also fined $50,000 by Magistrate Clive Nurse during their Court appearance on Tuesday. The Venezuelans were nabbed on the 13th […]
The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has announced that it has secured convictions against Yuri Garcia Dominguez and Ateeka Ishmael, who were each found guilty for operating a Ponzi Scheme illegally in Guyana which fleeced unsuspecting Guyanese hundreds of millions of dollars. Garcia and Ishamel ran one of the most sophisticated ponzi schemes that this […]
Former Ministry of Health staff member, Terrence Williams, has been committed to stand a High Court trial for money laundering over a suspected fraud involving more than #340 Million in drugs and COVID-19 testing kits. The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is prosecuting the matter. SOCU had conducted a money laundering investigation after a special […]
The Government of Guyana somersaulted on its position on introducing a Closed Sex Offenders Registry this afternoon following major push back from the public. In a statement this afternoon that came hours after the Human Services Minister defended plans for a closed Sex Offenders Registry, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that the President has instructed […]
Five and a half years after the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Isiah Henry and 18-year-old Joel Henry in the Cotton Tree Backdam in Berbice, two Berbice men, Vinod Gopaul and Anil Sancharra were today found guilty of the double murder. A 12-member jury returned the guilty verdict this afternoon in the Berbice High Court hours […]
23-year-old farmer, Shaheed Mohamed, was this afternoon charged for the murder of 7-year-old, Adriel Aftab Mohamed. He appeared at the Leonora Magistrates’ Court where the murder charge was read to him. The murder accused was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. The man was brought to the Court under heavy Police […]
Days after they surrendered to law enforcement following the publishing of a wanted bulletin for their arrest, 33-year-old East Bank Demerara resident, Antonio Alonzo and 21-year-old Gregory Persaud, who is also from the East Bank of Demerara, appeared in Court this morning and were remanded to prison on weapons charges. The two were arrested and […]
The brutal and senseless murder of a 7-year-old boy and the stabbing of his 72-year-old great grandmother at Zeelugt on the East Bank of Essequibo have left the community and the rest of the country in shock. The young boy, Adriel Mohamed and his grandmother, who is disabled as a result of suffering a stroke, […]
Two men who were wanted by the Police as part of its probe into the discovery of ten AK-47 weapons and ammunition almost two weeks ago, surrendered to the Police this morning in the company of their Attorney. The two men who surrendered to the Police, Gregory Persaud and Antonio Alonzo Lawrie, have been taken […]
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