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The Special Organised Crime Unit is continuing its probe into a suspected multi million U.S dollar fraud at the Guyana Rice Development Board, under its previous management. Late last week officers from SOCU swooped down on the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRBD) office following the findings of a Forensic Audit. A file has been already prepared […]
A robbery convict broke down in tears today at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded with the Magistrate to reconsider his decision to sentence him to three years in jail on an armed robbery conviction. Magistrate Dylan Bess did not buy the man’s tears and imposed the three year jail sentence after finding the defendant […]
Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly today ruled that the Prosecution has been able to make out its case and she therefore committed five teenagers to stand trial for the May 2016 murder of retired University Professor, Dr. Perry Mars. Confusion took over the courthouse today, just after the teens were committed, when one of them was […]
A 33-year-old, Enmore, East Coast Demerara man, who was arrested last August after he attempted to ship over 200 pounds of cocaine in frozen fish, will be spending the next five years in jail. The man, Kapil Thakurian, was also fined $237 Million. The sentence was handed down today at the Georgetown’s Magistrates’ Court by […]
Police investigators are seeking the public’s help for any information that could lead to the arrest of the suspects in the stabbing death of a destitute man, which took place Sunday morning in the Kitty area. According to a Police statement, 42-year-old Sunil Singh aka “Grey”, was beaten and stabbed to death by three men […]
Mini-bus driver, Robert Grant, will have to spend the next 56 months in jail after being found guilty for causing the death of an East Bank Demerara man, by dangerous driving. The verdict and sentence were handed down on Friday by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates Court and they came less than a […]
Two of the accused in the Bartica Massacre case were late Thursday night found guilty of seven counts of murder and five counts of manslaughter, while the third accused was found not guilty on all 12 counts of murder. It took the jury just over three hours to return with the verdicts that Mark Royden aka […]
A 28-year-old man who appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning and was slapped with an attempted robbery charge, denied that he was part of any robbery attempt. The West Ruimveldt resident, David Bernard, was charged with the January 30, 2017 attempted robbery of Leon Blackman. The Prosecution’s case is that Bernard and and […]
A man who was wanted by the Police for the shooting death of a Chinese restaurant waitress and another woman, has been found alive but crippled. The arrest comes more than three years after he went into hiding. Police sources have told News Source that the suspect is in police custody after he was arrested […]
A Rupununi farmer and his wife were today charged for possession of marijuana, after a Police search at their home unearthed over six pounds of marijuana. The two appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court this morning and both pleaded not guilty to the charge. Their identities were given as Louis Cupertino and Felicia Cupertino. The […]
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