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Twenty-two year-old Rachael McLean on Wednesday found herself paying a $15,000 fine and doing community service for attempting to smuggle  two grams of marijuana into a police lockups. The facts state that on September 27, at the Brickdam lockups, the mother of twins approached Constable Timmerman and handed over a meal for her brother who was in the lockups. Following procedure, the officer ...

A man received a one year sentence on Wednesday after pleading guilty to breaking and entering and larceny. According to the facts presented at Court One of the Georgetown Magistrates Court, the owner of El Dorado Trading in Kingston, Georgetown secured his premises on the evening of September 22 and returned the following day to find some of his items ...

A pregnant Dominican Republic national appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court for overstaying her time in Guyana. According to police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers, Joselina Osaria arrived legally at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on April 24, 2015 and her passport was stamped by immigration officials for a month’s stay. The prosecutor continued that on September 26, 2016 the defendant visited ...

The Commission of Inquiry into the discovery of an aircraft in southern Guyana is expected to determine whether there was effective sharing of information among the security forces. “Whether the passage of information between the security forces was timely and whether there is need for review of the process having regard to the national intelligence system,” states one of the ...

Even as a legal battle continues over the cash-jet pilot’s hangar at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Captain Khamraj Lall is proposing to make the facility available for use by the Guyana government to allow the company to recover its more than GYD$600 million investment, according to well-placed sources. In the latest High Court case to have been filed ...

A cattle farmer was Tuesday afternoon gunned down while on his way to tend to his animals at Gangaram, East Canje, Berbice, police said. Investigators said the body of 38-year old Ramnarine “Bill” Itwaru was found at about 3 PM on Ring Road, Gangaram Village with four gunshot wounds and marks of violence to his face. The killing of the ...

President David Granger has mandated that a Commission of Inquiry be established to investigate, examine, advise and report on all the circumstances under which a foreign aircraft entered Guyana. The twin-engine Cessna plane was discovered under a canopy of thick vegetation near the village of Yupukari, Upper Essequibo-Upper Takutu on September 13, 2016. The Ministry of the Presidency said Brigadier Edward ...

by Abigail Semple and Denis Chabrol Drugs baron, Barry Dataram, who has escaped Guyana, was Tuesday fined GYD$164,268,000 and sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for being in possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking more than one year ago- a decision that angered the Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) , James Singh. “I am very disappointed that his ...

The mining licence of Romanex Guyana Exploration Ltd has been reactivated, paving the way for that company to undertake exploration and mining activities in the Marudi Mountain area of Mining District No. 6 Rupununi, with small miners being allowed to co-exist in the area. “The resumption of Romanex’s activities will be done according to an approved work plan, which will ...

Five Haitians, who were caught in Guyana heading to Brazil, were Tuesday fined for illegal entry and ordered deported. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan, they were convicted for entering Guyana by sea and disembarking without the consent of an immigration officer. Jean Eliofene Emila, 25, Fequiere Emila,27, Panel Mondesir, 24, Wilner Choisy, 24, and 19-year old Robinson Thermidore ...