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Devon Ally, the rape accused who was recaptured by police in Beterverwagting on Wednesday, appeared before the Wales Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where he was charged and placed on $200,000 bail for the offence of rape, and fined for escaping custody and assault.
The police last night said that they have arrested a lance corporal of the Joint Services and another individual as they investigate a shooting which occurred in Albouystown yesterday afternoon.
Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, will lead a delegation, including Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, to India for a meeting of the Guyana-India Joint Commission and for Inter-Ministerial Consultations scheduled for January 29 to February 3.
The Ministry of the Presidency, Department of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday rejected the headline of a story carried by the National Communications Network (NCN), ‘No skimpy costumes for Mash’, which was aired on January 23, 2018.
Following a report in this newspaper, the traffic lights have been turned back on at the Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue junction.
A Lodge resident was yesterday cleared of a robbery, after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) advised that the charge against him be withdrawn.
Three parliamentary committee reports were on Friday evening adopted by the National Assembly following a show of full support from both the government and opposition.
Between Wednesday evening and early yesterday morning, bandits robbed two Port Mourant, Corentyne families of a quantity of household items, cash and jewellery.
The Guyana Defence Force will undergo significant restructuring to enable greater efficiency, according to President David Granger who addressed the GDF officers conference today.
Nineteen media workers today walked out of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Annual Officers’ Conference to protest the treatment received at the hands of the organizers who subsequently said that the instructions were that the media be kept out of earshot of sensitive information.
Police ranks of the Mounted Branch stationed in Lethem, whilst on patrol yesterday in the Takutu River area, detained for questioning, a male with a foreign accent who upon seeing the ‘troopers’ began acting in a suspicious manner, the police said in a statement today.
Even as it may now face more court action, the New Building Society (NBS) yesterday strongly defended the action taken by its staff on Tuesday in securing the building when an attempt was made to levy on its assets in relation to a $59m court award to its former CEO Maurice Arjoon.
Two men died following a car accident on the Cornelia Ida Public Road, West Coast Demerara on Tuesday night.
As the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) prepares to roll out it plans for the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE), its chairman, Justice (retired) James Patterson is adamant that there is no chance of the official voters’ list being padded.
Rohan Daniels was late yesterday afternoon sentenced to two concurrent life sentences behind bars, after a jury convicted him of sexually penetrating a young girl.
-getaway car crashed Nine Brazilians including two females are currently in custody as the police continue to probe Tuesday afternoon’s armed robbery on a phone store in Lethem during which a quantity of phones and jewellery was stolen.
The family of Kapilldeo Mohit want the police to properly investigate the circumstances that led to an accident on Sunday which resulted in his death.
Sherwin Roberts, who was charged with murdering his one-year-old niece, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the end of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI).
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Ministry of Business are fine-tuning two business and investment fora which are intended to offer advice and coaching to some of the thousands of sugar workers made redundant at the end of last year.
A man who allegedly beat his teenaged wife during last week resulting in her death was on Tuesday evening arrested by the police.
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