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A woman was Tuesday charged with exciting hostility and ill to President David Granger under Guyana’s Racial Hostility Act by communicating certain messages via Facebook and WhatsApp. Bibi Safora Salim was granted GYD$200,000 bail by Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan and ordered to return to court on May 11, 2016 for the commencement of the trial. The divorced mother of ...

Several system defects at the Camp Street Prison give rise to the possibility for prisoners to escape their dorms and ultimately the prison compound. This is according to the testimony given by Camp Street Prison Officer Dekanna Benjamin when she appeared at the Camp Street Prison Commission of Inquiry on Tuesday. The officer stationed in the Operations Room told the ...

The parents of murdered Epsom teenager Dominic Bernard were due to fly to Guyana on Thursday to bring his body home. Andrew and Linda Bernard have faced an agonising four month wait for DNA testing to confirm that the remains found in a shallow grave was that of their missing 18-year-old son. With tests having confirmed the worst, the couple are ...

Reproduced from Trinidad Guardian by Rosemarie Sant of the GML ENTERPRISE DESK Trinidad and Tobago’s Law Association has signalled its support of a petition from the Catholic Church to pardon hundreds of remand prisoners who have been in jail without trial for periods exceeding the maximum sentence they would get if found guilty. Law Association president Reginald Armour SC told the GML ...

Veteran pilot, Captain Gerry Gouveia hailed Guyana’s record of aviation safety despite the “very, very rough and hostile” terrain and number of daily flights in and out of the country. “This is aviation is one of the safest in the world and I would say one of the safest aviation industries in the Caribbean based on where we operate,” he ...

Global Fund is requesting that the Government of Guyana repay them millions of dollars that were allegedly misappropriated by staffers of the Ministry of Public Health under a malaria mosquito net program. In a report published on the Website the Organisation claims that employees from the Guyana Ministry of Health had inflated the number of bed nets reported as having ...

Oldfield Romelus, one of the Officers at the Camp Street Prison with responsibility for preparing meals for prisoners says that he eats the very food that is prepared and it is far from what some inmates have described it. Since the Commission into the Camp Street had commenced prisoners have decried the meals being served to them, with one prisoner ...

A second man was arraigned Monday for the murder of Simone Hackette whose body was found in a canal at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara days after she had told family members that she was going to collect a parcel that had been sent by her child’s father from Mahdia. Taxi driver Ranachal Singh of Good Faith, Mahaicony, East Coast ...

Self-confessed drug lord, Barry Dataram on Monday appeared before a one-man presidential inquiry into allegations that the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has been colluding with drug traffickers. Dataram entered the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of the Public Service Office at approximately 9:53 AM. Unaccompanied by a lawyer or anyone else, Dataram told the guard that he was “here to ...

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure says it is moving apace to complete the D’Urban Park Development Project in time for the 50th anniversary celebrations, and Guyana Defence Force (GDF) personnel are now on site to help turn the project into a reality. Fifteen soldiers on Monday, April 25, 2016 turned out at D’Urban Park and will be lending support to MPI’s Special ...