Cop on bribery charge

Cleatus Azeem

A police officer accused of bribery was yesterday granted $50,000 bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The allegation against Cleatus Azeem, 27, is that on November 2, at the Brickdam Police Station, being an agent of the Government of Guyana, he corruptly obtained from Natasha Jones the sum of $40,000, as an