Femi Harris-Smith

Two Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officers and a security agent were yesterday arraigned on a charge that they conspired to traffic the cocaine found last week in a bag at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA).

Three weeks after being remanded on a drug trafficking charge, Andre Gustav yesterday faced a new accusation that he supplied cocaine to a Canadian drug mule who was later nabbed.

Michael Augustus, whose common-law wife pleaded for him to be jailed because of the constant abuse she suffered at his hands, was yesterday sentenced to 14 months in prison and he collapsed outside the courtroom soon after sentencing.

Colin Jones and Clayton Westford, the two men found guilty of torching the Ministry of Health’s building in 2009, were yesterday each sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for the crime.

Salma Majeed, of the ISA Islamic Academy, emerged the top performer out of the 16,811 students who sat this year’s National Grade Six Assessment,

Miner George Hanover, charged with stealing from another miner, yesterday told a court that his accusers made him strip naked and tied him to a tree in the bushes where they beat him.

A man who said that he escaped from the custody of police because he did not want to leave his mother alone and that frustration over not having money led him to robbing a woman was yesterday handed a four-year prison term when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Murder accused Arif Mohammed was yesterday found not guilty by a jury in the High Court—a day after his father was acquitted of the same charge.

Euclid Da Silva, who authorities say escaped from a prison in Boa Vista where he was jailed after drug trafficking and money laundering convictions, was yesterday accused of illegal entry into Guyana and hit with fraud charges that date back to 1997.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday discharged James Emmanuel Hutson, a man shot by police while in possession of a screwdriver, saying that lawmen failed to substantiate their claim that it was an offensive weapon.

Nine Linden men were yesterday arraigned on charges that they threw missiles at police ranks between last Friday and Sunday.

Office of the President (OP) Press Officer Kwame McCoy was yesterday convicted of assaulting a man by gun-butting him, after an argument over election campaign posters.

Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Anthony Watson and Basil Morgan were yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for allegedly shooting at the East Ruimveldt Police Station in 2009.

The man accused of causing the death of Alwyn Carlos Thomas as a result of dangerous driving was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $400,000 when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

A man who said he advanced to his reputed wife to hit her because she pays no attention to their two minor sons was on Tuesday ordered in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to seek counselling and treatment for alcohol addiction after it was revealed that he indulges in alcohol abuse.

A 46-year-old man who his wife alleges has been abusing her “for years” was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

An 18-month prison sentence was yesterday meted out to a robber who claimed he snatched a woman’s chain to make “fast-money” to feed his three children.

Trayon Moore, the man who police say helped Randy Morris rob a Bourda Market vendor in the moments before he was shot dead, was yesterday arraigned on an attempted armed robbery charge at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A man, who said he beat his 14-year-old daughter for sleeping out and continually having sexual relations with adult men, was yesterday sentenced to six weeks imprisonment by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

A man who threatened to physically harm his wife at her workplace because she did not call to wish him happy Father’s Day was yesterday bonded to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for one year.