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Close to a year since the life of the last Board of Directors expired, the Government today announced a new Board for the problem plagued, Guyana Sugar Corporation. Minister of State, Joe Harmon, made the announcement today at his post-cabinet press briefing. He announced that John Dow will serve as the Chairman of the Board, […]
The hotel owner who was charged back in August for manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of his neighbour has now been remanded to jail, following a decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions to upgrade that charge to murder. Hotel owner, Erwin Bacchus, was at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning where he […]
Two persons have been charged in Canada in connection with a major drug bust that is linked to Guyana. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency have announced that during joint forces operation on the 17th September, 81 kilos of cocaine was found and seized at the Port of Valleyfield in Canada […]
With a battery of lawyers at his side, the potty mouth Attorney who was caught on camera in an explicit laced tirade against a Police officer, appeared in Court this morning and entered not guilty pleas to the five charges he is facing. He was released on self bail. The Attorney, Ryan Crawford, was subdued […]
The Attorney-at-law, who greeted a traffic police rank an expletive laced rant, will now face five criminal charges. The Guyana Police Force has announced that its legal adviser, after reviewing the file on the matter, has advised that the Attorney be charged with Prohibition of Tinted Glass, Failure to Produce Driver’s Licence, Driving an Unfit Motor Vehicle, […]
In the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning, an East Ruimveldt man was charged in connection with the murder of 23-year-old, Freeman Street resident, Roger Allen. The accused, 20-year-old Matthew Parks, was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge when it was read to him this morning. He was remanded to jail […]
A 47-year-old man from Mocha on the East Bank of Demerara, who was expected in Court today to face a rape charge, has died after falling ill in the East Ruimveldt Police lock-ups. In a statement, the Guyana Police Force said Stonie Henry, who was a welder, was arrested yesterday in connection with an investigation […]
Three days after an Albouystown woman was busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport with cocaine in the false side of her suitcase, she appeared in Court this morning along with her alleged recruiter, to face drug trafficking charges. 35-year-old, Shellon Yolanda Barrow of Victoria Street, Albouystown along with the alleged recruiter, 37-year-old, Krissy Latoya Griffith, […]
Under heavy Police guard, a 16-year-old youth from Buxton appeared in Court this morning and was slapped with the charge of murdering 72-year-old, Annandale resident Krishnachand Dabee. The youth was immediately remanded until October, when the case will continue. Dressed in t-shirt with his school pants, the accused walked into the Cove and John Magistrates’s […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is once again hitting out at the Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force, claiming that it appears to be targeting members of the former PPP government more than it is going behind drug traffickers and money launderers. Mr. Jagdeo was back at the SOCU headquarters this afternoon to […]
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