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Two men were today committed to stand trial by the Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for allegedly plotting to murder a Lethem businessman. 57-year-old Mark Grimmond of Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and 36-year-old Chatterpaul Singh of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) were committed to face a Judge and Jury following the completion […]
Chief Justice (ag) Roxanne George-Wiltshire today ordered that mediation takes place into the multi-million-dollar lawsuit which was filed against the State by a Jamaican woman who was wrongfully imprisoned. The woman’s Attorney Darren Wade was seeking $10 million for every day that the woman was held in custody. She spent eight months in custody. The […]
The West Berbice man who was nabbed with over 100 pounds of marijuana was today sentenced to 4 years in jail and fined $27.6 million after pleading guilty to the drug trafficking charge. 37-year-old, Jairam Lallman appeared in the Courtroom of the Chief Magistrate this morning and opted to enter a guilty plea. The Court […]
The two Corentyne sisters who were caught on video berating Police officers after being involved in a motor vehicular accident have been slapped with 10 charges. 28- year -old Hemwattie Singh and 22- year -old Yasminie Ramsew both pleaded not guilty to all of the charges read to them by Magistrate Peter Hugh. The two […]
Two Berbice women who were caught on video berating and assaulting Police Officers at the Rose Hall Police outpost on Monday night will have to find themselves in Court on Thursday after being slapped with several charges. The two sisters, 22-year-old Yasminie Ramsook and 30-year-old Mona Singh will appear in the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court […]
Although the doctors who were consulted declared that a Cummings Street man is not fit to stand trial, the Police went ahead today and filed criminal charges against him for the murders of two vagrants on the city streets. Three weeks after the murders and the arrest of a suspect, 24-year-old Devon Johnson was marched […]
President David Granger today reiterated his call for motorists to exercise greater care in the use of the roads, to reduce unnecessary accidents that claim the lives of both children and adults. Amid the recent increase in accidents, the President said the deaths, disabilities and injuries and damage to property caused by accidents on our […]
Agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit are preparing charges against a Berbice man after he was held with over 100 pounds of compressed marijuana in the trunk of his car. A statement from CANU said East Canje, Berbice resident Jairam Lallman was intercepted by CANU agents on Monday night along Mandela Avenue behind the […]
After being behind bars for three years on a murder charge, 26-year-old Jamal Forde walked out of the High Court a free man today. The South Ruimveldt resident was freed of the charge following a no-case submission put forward by his attorneys, Ronald Burch-Smith and Keoma Griffith. Forde was on trial before a 12-member jury […]
A prison officer attached to the Lusignan Prison might soon find himself among the same prisoners he was hired to watch. The Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, this morning announced that a young prison officer was arrested at 6:45 this morning with 70 grams of marijuana hidden in his underwear. The man who has been […]
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