(Trinidad Guardian) Frustrated over the absence of printing paper in the Port-of-Spain and San Fernando Supreme Courts for the past two weeks, a judge yesterday said the Judiciary appears to be on the brink of collapse.
The final processing of the nomination lists for candidates and the backers of lists for candidates at the upcoming Local Government Elections is being compromised as people who wish to have their names withdrawn from the lists cannot do so as agreed to by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) says Commissioner, Robeson Benn.
Sherwin Apple, one of the two suspects in a rape video that went viral and who was discovered dead at the Kitty seawall on Tuesday, was murdered, an autopsy showed yesterday.
While the police in Berbice are awaiting a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death of Chandrawattie Williams, whose body was found on Tuesday partially decomposed, neighbours and close friends yesterday disclosed that she suffered 20 years of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of her husband.
Armed bandits last night invaded a Phrase Three Good Hope, East Coast Demerara house where they held a couple at gunpoint and carted off over $1M in valuables before escaping with their motor car.
The Ministry of Finance’s Main Street, Georgetown office was over the weekend broken into during which documents, data-saving devices and personal items were stolen and its Junior Minister, Jaipaul Sharma has since cited the need for tightened security at the premises.
One day after this newspaper publicized a suit against Ronald Backer—political advisor to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, over a US$15,000 debt he owes a former friend, PPP/C Member of Parliament (MP) Harry Gill has also come forward with similar complaints against Backer.
The Alliance For Change and the People’s Progressive Party are claiming their candidates and backers of lists of candidates contesting the November 12 Local Government Elections (LGEs) are being bullied and intimidated by each other’s activists and supporters.
Leon Duncan, called “Whistle”, the former murder accused who was charged last month with armed robbery, assaulting policemen and discharging a loaded firearm, was yesterday granted bail on the outstanding charges for which he was incarcerated.
Charged with discharging a loaded firearm at a fellow villager during a scuffle, a Mahdia businessman was yesterday remanded to prison.
The Orthopaedic Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), with assistance from the visiting Chinese medical brigade, recently conducted one of its first modern surgeries.
Almost a year after the life of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) came to an end, State Minister Joseph Harmon assured on Monday that efforts are afoot to have it reconstituted.
Marissa George and John Caesar are likely to know their fate tomorrow after a jury deliberates on the case against them for the attempted murder of former City Mall businesswoman, Dhanwantie Phulchand.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday led a team to the South Rupununi, Upper Takutu- Upper Essequibo for a reconnaissance of the roads and other facilities, as the region gets ready to host members of the Brazilian Army, who will begin drilling of eight wells in eight villages from October 4, 2018.
Orpheus Johnson, the accused in the murder of Gladstone George, who was shot execution-style onboard a minibus at Agricola, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in 2016, was yesterday recommitted to stand trial.
Following reports by the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) that tests on the Port Kaituma River had registered mercury contamination levels above WHO guidelines, a recent report from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has found that the presence of the metal in the river is not significant.
A Railway Line, Kitty couple is presently warded at the city public hospital after they sustained severe burns about their bodies during a gas bottle explosion at their home early yesterday morning.
A Guyhoc Park resident was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
A 42-year-old Campbellville woman, accused of fraud, appeared before the George-town Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was granted $65,000 bail.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday said he could withdraw his support for Brett Kavanaugh depending on the testimony in a high-profile Thursday hearing into multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against the Supreme Court nominee.
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