Last Updated on Monday, 23 January 2017, 17:14 by Derwayne Wills A 29 year old Cuban dentist, Eileen Aguila, was today slapped with three immigration charges by city magistrate Judy Latchman. The first charge states between September 13 and 14 last, Aguila, with intent to defraud, conspired to forge a Guyana arrival and departure immigration stamps purporting they were issued ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 January 2017, 16:32 by Derwayne Wills Eladio Pereza, a Cuban national and owner of Bollywood Club in Providence, East Bank Demerara, was today charged for trafficking a female of Cuban nationality for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Pereza, 34 years, resides at Providence Public Road, EBD. Ranks from the Counter-Trafficking In Persons Unit conducted two ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 January 2017, 16:14 by Derwayne Wills City Magistrate Judy Latchman ruled today a prima facie case has been established against police sergeant Leon Lindo into the conspiracy to commit murder against deceased MFK boss, Mohamed F. Khan. Lindo was accused, at the Criminal Investigations Department, of conspiring with Lennox ‘Two Colours’ Wayne to murder Khan, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 January 2017, 15:36 by Derwayne Wills Former Presidency Ministry permanent secretary, Omar Sharif, and his reputed wife, Savitri Hardio, were today charged separately by city magistrate Fabayo Azore for refusing to provide named documents to Assistant Police Commissioner Sydney James. The documents were requested as part of a production order. Both Sharif and his reputed ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 January 2017, 8:26 by Denis Chabrol Two persons early Monday morning died in two separate fires on the East Bank Demerara, residents and police sources said. The fire at Kaneville Housing Scheme, Grove burnt to death seven month old Romain Seth and left 11 others homeless. The owner of that premises, Michelle Menezes, lived with her ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 January 2017, 21:40 by Denis Chabrol Three men were Sunday night arrested at a house in Campbellville with one AK-47 assault rifle and one 9 MM handgun, ‘A’ Division Commander, Assistant Commissioner Clifton Hicken said. Sources said one of the three arrested has been identified as Lloyd Roberts. The two others are also said to ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 January 2017, 17:00 by Denis Chabrol Paid parking in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown has hit a slight snag because Minister responsible for Local Government, Ronald Bulkan has not yet approved parking meter by-laws, he said Sunday. Bulkan said he got the by-laws on Friday, January 20, 2017 and expects that his Legal Department would review them ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 January 2017, 12:34 by Denis Chabrol One man was Sunday morning killed and another injured in an explosion at an ice plant at Houston wharf. The dead man has been identified as Bhagwandie Lall. Repairs were being conducted on the plant at the time of the incident at BM Enterprise/ KB Enterprise.  “They were doing ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 13:48 by Writer Dancing on Black Ice Part II: The Reply to Nandlall on the GECOM Brouhaha by Attorney-at-Law, Vivian Williams Grown accustomed to a nuanced application of legal principles from Guyana’s former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, I was disappointed by his response to my article Dancing on Black Ice: That Legal Threat ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 January 2017, 20:20 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister, Winston Jordan has warned that government would take stern action against a small number of players who are responsible for instability in Guyana’s foreign exchange market, even as he sought to allay fears of a foreign exchange shortage. “We will continue to use moral suasion to return ...