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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 […]
While saying that it is “neither supportive nor against the implementation of paid metered parking in Georgetown”, the Alliance For Change wants the City Council to suspend the implementation of the Parking Meter system. In a statement this afternoon, the party which makes up the coalition government and sits as the coalition majority on the […]
A transgender woman who was barred from being heard before a City Magistrate was able to do so on Tuesday in the Georgetown’s Magistrates’ Court, Number 06. The transgender woman, who goes by the name “Petronella” was reportedly physically assaulted by a known acquaintance on January 26, 2017. A Police report was made at the […]
The businessman who shot and killed a 24-year-old man who was turning around on his bridge, will now have to face a high court trial for the murder. Magistrate Dylan Bess today ruled that a case had been made out against businessman, Robert Benn, and therefore he will have to stand a High Court trial. […]
At least two US based Guyanese men, have been left counting their losses after being ripped off by a Plaisance woman, who presented herself as a real estate agent and collected money from them to buy properties that turned out to be non-existent. The woman has been identified as Constance Sandy. The scheme started over a […]
The Ministry of Social Protection is calling on all citizens to act responsibly regarding inappropriate video content involving school aged children that has been circulating on social media platforms. The photographs and videos of the school aged children have been posted to some Facebook pages and were being circulated on other social media apps over […]
First Lady, Sandra Granger, today, urged officers of the Guyana Defence Force’s Women’s Army Corps to continue to be competent in the execution of their duties. Mrs. Granger was at the time speaking at the 50th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service for the Women’s Army Corps. She said the formation of the Women’s Army Corps 50 years ago […]
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 […]
A new Board has been installed at the Georgetown Hospital with Health Law Consultant and Attorney, 34-year-old Kesaundra Alves, being appointed as the Head of the Board. The last board which was headed by Dr. Carl ‘Max’ Hanoman was dissolved in November 2016, by the Health Minister at the time, Dr. George Norton. The new Chairperson, Kessaundra Alves, […]
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