A West Ruimveldt man, Carlos Braithwaite, was today sentenced to three years in prison, by city magistrate Faith McGusty, for breaking and entering. Earlier this year, Braithwaite plead not guilty to the offense that he broke and entered the home of Hemachandra Kissoon on January 16 at Cummings Street, Georgetown and stole a Sharp TV, valued at $69,000, an iron ...

45-year-old Dextroy Cordis was today granted $300,000 bail by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, when he answered to a charge of robbing Balachandra Hardwar of US$5,000 or GYD$1,043,749, and a number of documents, at Saffon Street, Charlestown, on February 9. Cordis pleaded not guilty to the charge read against him. His lawyer, Adrian Thompson, told the court his client, a father ...

A 27-year-old Festival City man was today remanded to prison until February 27 by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for one charge of attempted murder, and another charge of discharging a loaded firearm. The court heard that Leon Duncan, on January 8, 2017, at Main Street, discharged a loaded firearm on Seon Nedd. The second charge against Duncan was that on ...

Shawn Fillicene, 43 years, of Ewang, Potaro, was today remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for the attempted murder of Manuel DeSantos at Ewang Backdam. The charge against Shawn read that he attempted to murder DeSantos on February 11. DeSantos is believed to have suffered multiple stab wounds to his neck. Police Prosecution objected to bail for the ...

26-year-old Gerald Brown was today granted $300,000 bail for fraudulent conversio of some $1.6Million in raw gold. The charge read against Brown is that on February 8, 2017 at Lethem, he fraudulently converted 141 pennyweights of raw gold, valued at $1.6M, which was supposed to be handed over to Roxanne Rambishun. The charge was read by Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan. ...

Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green today scolded Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan for what she said was taking misinformation to the public on the parking meter contract, and causing “civil unrest.” The issue emerged after a motion was proposed, by councillor Noelle Chow-Chee, seeking clarification on what the parking meter contract contained, since there were conflicting reports in the media. The contract, ...

City Magistrate Renita Singh, this morning, dismissed a passport forgery charge against Anjanie Boodnarine, the reputed wife of self-confessed and convicted drug lord, Barry Dataram. Magistrate Singh ruled the prosecution failed to provide sufficient evidence against Boodnarine in the charge of conspiring with one or more persons to forge a Guyana passport Magistrate Singh said she found it strange that ...

Three persons, including a one-year old child, were early Sunday morning burnt to death at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara. Investigators are working on the theory that the incident might be a murder-suicide.. The fire occurred at about 2:30 AM at Lot 1 Beterverwagting (BV) Railway Embankment. Dead are Leonard Pollard, 34, Latoya Telford, 26, and one-year old Nakasi Pollard. Police ...

Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green confirmed today with Demerara Waves Online News that vehicles will not be clamped as of today, February 10, 2017, until public consultations are completed on the parking meters project. Chase-Green said consultations with commercial banks will take place on Monday. Today, a number of religious organisations met with the Mayor, where she said packages were offered ...

Although the public procurement commissioners were appointed by President Granger and paid monthly super salaries since last October, the Commission remains inactive due to the lack of staff for its work. Once the commission comes into being, it will assume Cabinet’s responsibility of granting No Objections to multi-million and billion dollar contracts for public infrastructure work. Cabinet Secretary and State ...