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A 16-year-old young man from the Kitty area is in Police custody after he was apprehended by a gold miner just after the same gold miner was robbed by the teenager and three other persons. According to a Police statement, the incident occurred just after midnight in the Kitty area. The gold miner was standing […]
At the High Court on Friday, a 12-member jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty for 37-year-old Rajesh Guyadeen, who was on trial for the 2003 murder of Mahaica resident, Nandran Manohar aka “Nando”. Justice Navindra Singh sentenced the convict to 70 years in prison. The convict apologized to the Court for the murder, saying […]
A brother and sister from the Soesdyke area are among three persons in custody following an operation by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit that unearthed a large quantity of cocaine. According to a late night statement from CANU on Friday, the raid took place at several locations in the Soesdyke area on Friday afternoon. The siblings […]
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today, a 21-year-old Police Constable was charged for rape. The man, Jamal Whyte, was not required to plea to the charge of allegedly engaging in sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16. The Court was told that back in August 2017, at Roxanne Burnham gardens, the young […]
President David Granger on Thursday said attempts by successive People’s Progressive Party governments over the last 20 years to reform the security sector were “all bluff” and were not intended to work. Mr. Granger was at the time receiving the Report on the United Kingdom Security Sector Reform Programme from British Expert Mr. Russell Combe […]
Fifty-one year old, Lance Corporal of the Georgetown City Constabulary, Gregory Bascom was placed on $800,000 bail today after a charge of manslaughter for the death of a mentally ill vendor, was laid against him. Bascom appeared before the Chief Magistrate in a packed courtroom and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Several of his […]
Once entrusted with safeguarding the security of the nation, a young member of the Guyana Defence Force found himself on the other side of the law today as he was slapped with a number of armed robbery charges, including a $5.5 million robbery. 21-year-old soldier, Jamal Hazel, wore a grim look on his face as […]
Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack and the Police Legal Adviser, retired Justice Claudette Singh are both brushing aside claims by the British Adviser on financial crimes investigations, Sam Sittlington, who recently complained of delays into ongoing financial crimes investigations being pursued by the Special Organised Crime Unit. Days after returning to Guyana to […]
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) on Wednesday launched a new initiative, which intends to offer free legal services to members of the local Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. SASOD said it has been providing informal legal services to members of the community over the years, but will now do so under […]
Confusion reigned in Leopold Street, Georgetown just after 11 o’ clock this morning as a row between two men quickly escalated and ended with gunfire. According to reports, two men appeared to be involved in a heated argument when one of them left the scene and returned with a group of other men in a […]
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