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A 44-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to beating her 64-year-old landlord to death, was sentenced to eight years in jail today by Justice Navindra Singh. The sentence was handed down after the woman, Zaleena Whittington, entered a guilty plea to the lesser count of manslaughter. The incident took place back in 2013 at the man’s Vergenoegen […]
The Guyana Police Force is urging all taxi drivers, especially those using the Toyota Allion and Premio motor cars to be on the alert for hijackers, who may be posing as passengers. According to a statement from the Police, the suspected hijackers are believed to be seven men. Two are believed to be afro-Guyanese, two […]
The High Court today closed another chapter in the 2014 traffic light murder of city businessman, Ashok Raghu. The accused, Travis McDougal, who was found guilty of the businessman’s murder, was today sentenced to 25 years in jail. Justice Navindra Singh presided over the case. The convict clutched a Bible as he made his way […]
A woman and the driver of a car that was nabbed with just over 25 pounds of marijuana, were among five persons arrested on the Aurora Public Road in Essequibo, this morning. Investigators have not released the names of any of those arrested. The bust was made just after 8 o’ clock this morning as […]
Two young engineers have landed in hot water, after they were nabbed in a car with a packet of cocaine. The youths, Michael Sookoo and Aviskar Rambarran, who are both 20-years-old, appeared in court today and were remanded to prison after pleading not guilty to drug possession. The case is that they were nabbed on […]
Georgetown Magistrate, Judy Latchman, today refused a second order from the Director of Public Prosecutions to commit murder accused, Reagan Rodrigues aka “Grey Boy”, to stand a High Court trial for the murder of activist Courtney Crum-Ewing. Special Prosecutor, Nigel Hughes, told News Source today that the DPP issued a new direction to the Magistrate […]
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this afternoon, a West Berbice man was granted bail in the sum of $100,000 after being charged with converting his uncle’s raw gold to his own use. Thirty-two year old, Sherwayne Saul, appeared before the Chief Magistrate and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge that he converted […]
In the Sophia area, police are still probing the stabbing death of a labourer from the community. The incident took place on Monday evening. According to a Police report, the labourer, 45-year-old Roy Beckles, was on his way home when he noticed his wife and their neighbour in an argument. Beckles intervened in the argument and […]
Friends and neighbours of a young Cummings Lodge couple, got the shock of their lives on Monday night when they broke into the house to find the man’s decomposing body with his wife in an unconscious state and lying nearby. The dead man has been identified as 35-year-old, Kevin Dawson. His wife’s name has been […]
After more than two years and the same charge being instituted against him twice, 42-year-old Reagan Rodrigues aka “Grey Boy” walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates Court freed of the Courtney Crum-Ewing murder charge once again. This afternoon, Magistrate Judy Latchman ruled that a case had not been made out against the man to allow […]
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