Crime

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Today, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) denied special leave in the Guyanese case of Sherwin Harte and Deon  Greenidge v The State  in which Greenidge sought permission to appeal his conviction and both Harte and Greenidge sought permission to appeal the sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal upon them and to challenge ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has appealed to the Guyana Police Force to submit information on noise nuisance complaints as the two agencies team up in their fight against that problem. EPA Environmental Officer, Ladonna Kissoon told a recently-held symposium for senior police officers that her agency needed such monthly noise nuisance complaints records for  use by a Technical Working ...

Guyana’s Solicitor General Nigel Hawke has urged police not to place children on ‘benches’ at police stations and desist from seizing vehicles without first securing a temporary court order. He issued the advice while interacting with police at a session on Human Rights Policing during the recently-held symposium for senior officers. Responding to a question from a former Police Prosecutor ...

A bus driver and his wife, who is a nurse, were Monday charged with stealing 208 ounces of raw gold and were each granted GY$1.5 million, police said. Those charged with the offence of simple larceny of the gold valued GY$76,960,000 were bus driver 25-year old Rohan Mangal  and nurse 22-year old Anjali Singh-Mangal of of 69 Delph Street, Campbellville, ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday appeared dissatisfied that little or no action has been taken to prosecute people at Chinese Landing who have been allegedly threatening and harassing Indigenous Caribs there if they are removed from gold-bearing lands, and has urged the Guyana government to take a three-pronged approach to addressing the concerns. On July 21, ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday was mum on government’s next move to save a US$300 million investment in a new shorebase at Vreed-en-Hoop if the United States (US) imposes sanctions on key Guyanese players Nazar “Shell” Mohamed and his son Azruddin Mohamed are key players. “If the US were to impose sanctions, then the government would have to assess ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Thursday asked the Guyana Police Force to crack down on illegalities and disorder mainly in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) which is regarded as the country’s trendsetter. “Where Region Four goes the rest of the country will follow. Where Region Four goes, those divisions, the rest of the country follows and if we are going to ...

An American Airlines flight, destined for Guyana, returned to  New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Tuesday night after a disagreement between well-known Indian cultural personality, Joel Ghansham, and a cabin attendant, he said. Ghansham said the discord stemmed from him calling a cabin attendant a “waiter”, after which the AA staffer threatened to have the plane return to JFK. ...

Opposition parliamentarian Amanza Walton-Desir on Monday said she was concerned that the agreement with surviving families of the 20 children, who were burnt to death in the Mahdia Secondary School’s dormitory, now means that it would be very tough to obtain compensation from the State. “When you look at the text of the agreement, what they have essentially asked these ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Monday confirmed that the surviving families of the 20 children who were burnt to death at Mahdia Secondary School dormitory earlier this year are each receiving GY$5 million. “It is an ongoing process,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. “The Government of Guyana hereby offers to the parent/guardian of the victim the sum of five ...