Guyana News

A city Magistrate yesterday dismissed charges of possession of ammunition and cannabis against a woman, who had been charged alongside her son, in May, after the prosecution failed to produce the file.

“The truth shall set you free, I am innocent,” a homeless man yesterday announced to a city court before he was sentenced to three years in prison for unlawful wounding.

An elderly couple was traumatized after bandits broke into their Craig, East Bank Demerara house early yesterday morning, but fled empty-handed after an alarm was raised.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-led congress today appointed alternative judges to the country’s Supreme Court, whose current pro-government members have been a bedrock of support for leftist President Nicolas Maduro.

The Police say they are making stringent efforts to apprehend a male suspect who answers to the sobriquet `Chokadag’  and who is alleged to have fatally stabbed a fisherman last night at the Meadow Bank Wharf, EBD.

The ongoing problems at Guyana Power and Light (GPL)  have led to blackouts across the city and along the coast today.

Three Guyanese miners were shot dead, while three other persons were wounded in an early morning attack on Wednesday, when their camp at Imataka, on the Venezuelan side of the border, was raided by gunmen.

Businessman Andrif Gillard yesterday told a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) of how his neighbour allegedly offered him money to assassinate President David Granger and the subsequent runaround he was subject to before the police took a report from him.

Members of the STEMGuyana team, having adeptly represented the country at the just-concluded First Global Games, where they finished in 10th position, received a warm welcome upon arriving in Guyana on Wednesday night.

Wrongfully dismissed New Building Society (NBS) Manager Maurice Arjoon, was yesterday awarded just over $79M, which the Society owes him for loss of earnings, severance and pension benefits plus interest.

John Da Silva and Kevin Fitz Gordon, the two men held on a boat in the Pomeroon River, Essequibo, with 210 pounds of cocaine, were yesterday both charged with drug trafficking and remanded to prison.

Heavy rainfall and excessive flooding is being blamed for the collapse of a two-storey building in the Lethem, Region Nine district, however Mayor of the town, Carlton Beckles said that a thorough assessment needs to be done before flooding can be cited as the cause.

Taxi driver Noel De Freitas, who was charged earlier this year with causing the death of a pedestrian along Mandela Avenue, had the charge against him dismissed yesterday after a city magistrate upheld a no-case submission in his favour.

Kellon Mc Leod,  also known as ‘Pinny’, 29 years, a miner of Victory Valley, Wismar, Linden who was found in possession of a .38 revolver and seven matching rounds early Wednesday morning in Mackenzie, appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Wales Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning and pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition without licence.

The prosecution yesterday sought arrest warrants for the three absent accused, including a former Agriculture Ministry project engineer, for the alleged Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) fraud, where payments were approved for substandard work on the rehabilitation of the company’s Robb Street headquarters.

The trial of ex-policeman Ruel Brandon, who is charged with the murder of Davonan Sookram, commenced yesterday before Justice Nareshwar Harnanan and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

APNU+AFC  Region Ten Member of Parliament Jermaine Figueira on Wednesday appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse charged with the offence of playing music at a public event without first obtaining a licence from the magistrate of the district.

One of the witnesses in the murder case of Number 70 carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt, is presently hospitalised for suspected poisoning.

One person was seriously injured yesterday when a boat taking mourners to the funeral of Ravin Piper, who drowned last week, hit a submerged log in the Pomeroon River, then crashed into a tree on the bank of the river.

Guyana’s proposed Tobacco Control legislation does not seek to ban the sale of cigarettes nor criminalise smokers   but aims to protect the population from the ravages of second-hand smoke and the ensuing health costs.