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No jail for “low-level” drug offenders, possessors of small ganja amounts–prison riot inquiry recommends
Ras Leon Saul making a case for the decriminalization of marijuana at the Guyana sitting of the Caricom Marijuana Commission....
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Reporters threatened again as Berbice trio returns to court on more armed robbery charges
The suspect Aubrey Baker in the white shirt with the stone in his hands at the Reliance Court yard. The...
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Ex-husband, alleged accomplice for High Court trial for Babita Sarjou’s murder
Babita Sarjoo The ex-husband of a woman, whose skeletal remains were found several years later after she disappeared buried behind...
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Husband, wife charged with exporting raw gold
A husband and wife charged with allegedly exporting GYD$14.6 million worth raw gold without a licence were Monday granted self-bail....
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Carpenter charged with murder of Corentyne mason
Vijay Rigbaran Twenty-nine year-old Vijai Rigbaran was Monday charged with the murder of a Williamsburg, Corentyne mason at the Albion...
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Truck driver charged with causing death of Armstrong brothers, one year after collision
Lorry driver, Gansham Das. Just over one year after two brothers were killed in an East Bank Demerara road accident,...
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Trinidadian, who faked kidnapping for ransom, remanded to jail
Sawak Maraj at the Georgetown Magistrates' Court A Trinidadian national who allegedly faked his own kidnapping was Monday morning remanded...
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Male sex workers, Cox and Forrester, charged with robbery
Godfrey Cox Twenty-one year old Kevin Forrester and 19-year old Godfrey Cox , both commercial sex workers, appeared before Magistrate...
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Canadian charged with attempting to steal raw gold from mining camp
Elson Bettencourt A Canadian man, who allegedly went to a mining and demanded five ounces, 15 pennyweights of raw gold,...
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GBTI Directors granted self-bail on charge of failing to provide SOCU with bank account info
The eight Directors of the Guyana Bank For Trade Industry Limited were Monday released on self bail after they all...
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