Vendors get $10,000 bail each over altercation

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted $10,000 bail each to a newspaper vendor and a clothes vendor charged with causing damage to property and using threatening behaviour when they appeared in court.

The allegation against Patricia Gillis is that on August 10 at Regent and Wellington streets, Georgetown, she unlawfully and maliciously damaged one wooden stall valued $5,500 belonging to Bryan Wason.

The 56-year-old newspaper vendor of 28 Main Street, Ann’s Grove Village, East Coast Demerara, denied the charge when it was read to her in