Essequibo man busted with over $8M imported ganja
Officers from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Tuesday last intercepted a motorcar which was carrying a large quantity of “creepy” – a foreign...
Opposition files suit to remove VP Jagdeo from Parliament
The A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Opposition has filed legal proceedings to remove Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo from being a...
Venezuelan woman jailed 4 years, ordered to pay $1.5M for human trafficking
Mayelin Cordova, a 41-year-old businesswoman of Byderado Road, Bartica, was today sentenced to four years imprisonment for trafficking a Venezuelan national for the purpose...
CJ dismisses Carol Joseph’s challenge to extension of Top Cop’s tenure
Chief Justice, Roxane George today dismissed the challenge filed by APNU/AFC’s Carol Joseph against the extension of acting Police Commissioner Hicken’s tenure in office...
Man remanded for Berbice double murder
Devon Stanley, 32, has been remanded to prison for the murders of 51-year-old Floyd Moore and 34-year-old Quacy LaRose, both of Alness Village, Corentyne,...
Kitty man busted with ganja gets 4 years, fined $112M
Sean Thomas, also called ‘Yankee’, 43, of William Street, Kitty, Georgetown was on Friday sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $112,052,000 after he...
Banks DIH heads to court to remove vendors around Demico House
Encouraged by the recent success of Muneshwer’s Limited in removing vendors operating outside its premises, Banks DIH Limited is considering pursuing legal action to...
“Chow Pow’s” daughter wants him to receive “fit” punishment for assaulting her
Aniyah Jardine, a 22-year-old woman, has requested that a city magistrate impose a “fit” penalty on her father, whom she alleges had assaulted her.
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Port Kaituma carpenter admits to killing wife
Arraigned before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Demerara High Court on a charge of murder, 41-year-old Tyron James, a carpenter of Port Kaituma in...
Essequibo man gets 2 years, fined 50K for ganja trafficking
Forty-one-year-old Rondel Stephen, a farmer of Henrietta, Essequibo Coast was on Wednesday sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined $50,985 for trafficking 33.99 grams...