The trial of James Anthony Hyles called ‘Sally,’ and Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Smallie,’ the duo accused of the 2008 Lusignan Massacre continued yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court with a second voir dire.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that a number of police officers have been participating in training programmes overseas including on the topic of financial investigation.
Members of the New Amsterdam Constabulary recently came in for heavy criticism from Deputy Mayor Harold Debydeen, who accused them of facilitating a culture of lawlessness in the town through their lax approach to carrying out their duties.
Safraz Rahaman, who said that he was taking one gram of cannabis home to boil for his asthmatic daughter to drink, was on Tuesday fined $3,000 and ordered to do six months community service when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
Government and Opposition senior Members of Parliament were as at 1845 hours today locked in talks with Speaker Raphael Trotman in a bid to find a way forward on the passage of the Hydro Electric Power Amendment bill and a motion to increase the limit on loan guarantees.
At about 2215h last night, police say that miner Glendon Parks, 27 years, of Santa Mission, Essequibo Coast, was involved in an argument with another man on a floating mining dredge at Kangaruma, Middle Mazaruni River, during which he was stabbed to his chest.
A year since the fatal shooting of three men and the wounding of several others on the Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge set off nearly a month-long protest, Linden and its people bear both the physical and emotional scars that continue to fuel a call for justice, which they say they are prepared to fight for all over again if they have to.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is in its third week of the “pivotal” second crop yet no harvesting and grinding has commenced at the Skeldon estate.
Two gunmen, who posed as customers, carted off close to one million dollars after they carried out a brazen attack on Fullworks Motor Spares and Auto Sales at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
Tashana Barnes, the young woman who was hit when shots were fired during a brawl at the Platinum Night Club at Bartica last Friday, is worried that there is a “cover up” to protect the person who shot her and she is calling on authorities to thoroughly investigate and bring the shooter to justice.
Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh has defended Government’s position on not supporting the Public Procurement Commission’s (PPC) establishment under the current legislation – the Procurement Act of 2003 – stating that an amendment made in 2003 to remove Government’s role upon the constitutional body’s establishment was done hurriedly and without careful analysis.
The Guyana Police Force is soon to electronically monitor its mobile patrols to ensure they perform assigned duties, acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell announced yesterday.