Courts

A young carpenter is now on remand following his court appearance on six counts of illegal ammunition possession and robbery under arms at several West Bank Demerara villages. He is alleged to have robbed several persons of more than GYD$700,000 in cash and phone cards. Police alleged that on October 11, 2016 at Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, while in ...

A 56-year-old man is now on $70,000 bail after appearing in court for stealing items from his brother’s bond. The allegation against Andrew Collins Carter is that between September 30 and October 15, 2016 at Station Street Kitty, he broke and entered the storage bond of Kester Carter. There, he allegedly stole items amounting to $425,000. Among the items were ...

Kaieteur News Publisher Glenn Lall testified Tuesday as the Preliminary Inquiry into the grenade threat to his establishment continued. During his examination, Lall was asked by Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers if as a publisher he has any grievances with persons or if he knows of any persons having problems with him. To this, the Publisher responded that he has no problem with ...

BARBADOS TODAY: A 32-year-old Guyanese national was Tuesday ordered to keep the peace for six months and vacate his current home by 6 p.m. today. Not only that, but Dexter Royston Plowell, of Rouen Road, Belle Gully, St Michael was also warned not to trespass on the premises he once shared with Jessica Walrond, after he admitted to using the threatening ...

BARBADOS TODAY: Guyanese national Mohamed Kazim Khan found himself in a heap of trouble for “mistakenly” putting a small bottle of insecticide in his pocket when he went into Carters. Not only did 44-year-old Khan, who lives at Eastlynne, St George get arrested and charged for the offence which landed him before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today, but his status ...

Convicted drug baron, Barry Dataram was Tuesday sentenced to additional imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges in connection with his recent escape to Suriname. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan, he confessed to passport forgery, absconding the law and illegal departure. Mc Lennan sentenced Dataram to 12 months for forgery of a Guyana passport,  two years for absconding the ...

A taxi driver, in trying to avoid further problems with the courts, promised Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan to repay the man he allegedly tricked out of GYD$90,000. The charge against Chetram Sukhanandan is that on October 10, 2016, at Herstelling, he was entrusted with $90,000 for the purpose of paying a mortgage, but he fraudulently converted the cash to his own ...

BY JOHN MARZULLI NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, October 14, 2016. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.- The jury didn’t buy this guy’s fish story. The owner of a company that imports fish from Guyana was convicted Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court of smuggling 250 kilos of cocaine in a frozen shrimp-laden shipping container. Heeralall Sukdeo claimed he was duped by a relative ...

by Ivan Cairo Self-confessed Guyanese drug lord Barry Dataram was caught Friday afternoon by police in neighboring Suriname. Acting on a tip a police squad raided a home in Latour, south of the capital Paramaribo where the fugitive was hiding. He was nabbed along with his common-law wife ,Anjanie Boodnaraine by Suriname’s Special SWAT Team. He and Boodnaraine fled Guyana ...

26.5 grams of cannabis on Friday landed a man back in prison after he made an appearance before Magistrate Judy Latchman. It is alleged that on October 12, 2016 at Robb Street, Elijah Malali had 26.5 grams of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking. He pleaded not guilty. In her attempt at a bail application for her ...