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25-year-old Brian Bobb-semple was today sentenced to 23 years in prison for the killing of 9-year-old Shaquan Gittens. The lifeless body of the youngster was found in the Houston cane field days after he went missing back in 2015. Bobb-semple had been charged for murder and was committed to stand a High Court trial. However, […]
Three months after a young labourer was stabbed and beaten to death in Kitty, a wanted bulletin has been issued for the man, who is believed to be responsible for the murder. The Guyana Police Force this afternoon issued a wanted bulletin for 31-year-old Damian Bissoon, whose last known address has been given as Shell […]
It appears as though every weekend, there will be an effort to smuggle items into the prisons across the country. The Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels reported this morning that an unknown person was spotted during the wee hours of this morning near the fence of the holding area at the facility. After an alarm […]
-by Ravin Singh- THE Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Commission on Marijuana 2018 has recommended in its report the decriminalization of marijuana across member-states. The report will be presented to Heads-of-Government at the 39th conference of the regional body which will be held in Montego Bay, Jamaica from July 4-6. At a press conference on Monday, […]
A man from Enterprise on the East Coast of Demerara was today granted $200,000 bail on a multi million dollar fraud charge that is linked to an ongoing murder case before the Court. 36-year-old, Richard Aulder was today charged with allegedly obtaining $5 Million from a woman whose husband is facing a murder charge in […]
Former Minister of Finance under the last PPP Civic Government, Dr. Ashni Singh and former Privatisation Unit Head, Winston Brassington are facing a new charge of misconduct in public office. Singh was a no-show in Court this morning as the charge was read. Brassington and his Attorneys were present. Attorney-at-law, Anil Nandlall, who is representing […]
The United States Government through its State Department is calling on the Guyana Government to fund specialized victim services outside the capital as the fight continues against trafficking in persons. The State Department also wants those services to be unveiled for child victims and adult male victims of human traffcking. Those are just some of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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