Articles published on Wednesday, March 21, 2007
A man who admitted to robbing another man and then escaping from the police because he wanted to go to Mashramani was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday granted bail in the sum of $450,000 to a mother of five, the fifth person to appear in court to answer charges in connection with the Clico insurance fraud.
A manufacturer, who had been charged since 2005 with misrepresenting another company’s label as his, was fined $4,875 by Magistrate Brassington Reynolds at Cove and John Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, ending almost two years of court proceedings.
Amid open crying by relatives, Magistrate Krishendat Persaud further remanded to prison the men accused of robbing four families at Lesbeholden South, Black Bush Polder when they appeared before him at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
A teenager who allegedly wounded a policeman with an ice pick was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail by Melissa Robertson Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
A bus conductor who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a teenaged girl was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson Ogle.
A porkknocker who allegedly murdered another man over three months ago at North West District was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded a taxi driver to prison when he yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl.
A man who allegedly forced his way into a woman’s home and robbed, raped and sodomised her was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s court.
The recent, semi-comical contretemps involving elements of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Guyana Police Force was a departure from the long-standing and usually discreet contraband trade along this country’s unguarded coastland.
Three days after the death of Pakistan World Cup team cricket coach Bob Woolmer here, the cause of his demise is still unknown.
Clive Lloyd is the new West Indies team manager, but he’s one with a difference.
Georgetown outplayed Upper Demerara to lift the Guyana Football Federation’s Guyflag Inter-Association Football title on Sunday evening at the GFC ground.
Albion Community Centre cricket team made light work of West Berbice on their home ground to earn a place in the final of the 2006 Isaac Bissoon first-division three-day competition in Berbice last-weekend.
President of Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Affeeze Khan is appealing to the public for assistance to send boxers to the Pan American trials on April 21st- 29th in Trinidad.
Rose Hall Town Courts demoralised Skeldon to join Albion in the semi-finals of the Berbice zone of the 2007 Neal and Massay first-division limited overs cricket competition recently.
The Georgetown Cricket Club inflicted a nine-wicket trouncing of home team Lusignan on Saturday as the Neal Massy 40-over first division cricket began.
Fresh from their tour of Suriname, the country’s top local golfers will tee-off once again on Saturday when the Lusignan Golf Club stages the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) sponsored tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course beginning at 12.30pm with a Shotgun start.
ndrew ‘Six Heads’ Lewis and Denny ‘Deadly’ Dalton have met two times before with inconclusive results on both occasions; its only fair that the two top boxers be given the opportunity to settle the score between them once and for all.
Gokarn Ramdhani and Nicholas Waldron took the winners’ trophy when the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) held its over-35 doubles tournament last Thursday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Dear Editor, Cricket World Cup is upon us so I take this opportunity to forewarn about the impending transportation difficulty that will inevitably be experienced by West Demerara commuters.
Dear Editor, Because I am a health care worker, I have developed a propensity for extracting any article in the newspaper that pertains to HIV/AIDS.
Dear Editor, Reading enables one to gain personal self development among other things and to the young generation who have to accept the baton sooner or later, grab this opportunity and support the book sale that is now on by the Georgetown Reading and Research Centre (GRRC) and The Guyana Book Found-ation at their respective venues.
Dear Editor, On Sunday March 11, 2007 in Jamaica, the CWC opening ceremony at the newly built stadium saw a spectacular presentation of the culture the Caribbean has to offer in many different forms.
Dear Editor, I am grateful to the many writers who have brought the improper exploitation of Guyana’s forestry resources to the notice of the public.
Dear Editor, Pandit Sri Prakash Gossai was sworn-in as a Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of Oaths to Affidavits by two actors, Acting Chancellor Carl Singh and Acting Chief Magistrate, Cecil Sullivan.
Dear Editor, Very often in our collective conscience we encounter events that are probably significant, or at the very least noteworthy for the insight that we should gain from them.
Republic Bank (Guyana) yesterday fired the six employees, who were said to be implicated in the disappearance of $8 million from one of the bank’s ATMs, offering them severance pay and no reason for their dismissals.
A 27-year-old woman was yesterday charged with having an AK-47 rifle in her home at Church Street and was refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
Gunmen stuck up employees of Wireless Rush, a branch of Gizmos and Gadgets cell phone store located at upper Robb Street last evening carting away several expensive handsets and an undisclosed sum of cash.
A Guyanese man who was deported from the US after being convicted of rape in that country, and had returned illegally, was arrested in January when he went to file a complaint in the Queens District Attorney’s (DA) office.
A five-year-old student of Yakusari Nursery School in Black Bush Polder fell some 20 feet down from a section of the corridor that had some of its rails missing during last week and suffered “damaged tissue.”
The owner of a Chinese restaurant was shot last night in what appeared to be a failed robbery bid and he was reported to be in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
The Worldwide Moravian Church this month celebrated 550 years of ministry around the world and to commemorate the event the Moravian Church in Guyana held a special service of Thanksgiving on March 11.
Barama Company Limited has lashed out at the Akawini Village Council for its criticism of an agreement it has with one of Barama’s sub-contractors in Region Two, Interior Wood Products Inc (IWPI), but is willing to discuss options with the village.
Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud has assured Pomeroon River fishermen that government is working to address the piracy problems in the industry and encouraged them to form themselves into groups, like the community police do, to tackle the problem.
Secretary-General of Caricom Edwin Carrington is urging all member states to implement activities to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
The traffic lights at the Vreed-en-Hoop Junction, West Coast Demerara were finally activated yesterday after being installed earlier this year.
Emergency repairs were affected to the Three Friends Sea Sluice door on the Essequibo Coast yesterday morning after it was damaged by a fishing boat and the current spring tide in the area.
The ‘B’ Division Com-munity Policing Committees are hosting a week of community outreach activities, including road safety lectures, to mark its ‘Awareness Week’ observances.
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) through its receiver Maurice Solomon is seeking to sell 44 acres of rice land in the name of Allen’s Enterprise Limited, now in receivership at Coffee Grove, Anna Regina on the Essequibo Coast.
Two days after an ex-policeman was executed in his car at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara police are yet to arrest his killers.
Twenty-nine-year-old June Ann James who was hit in the head by a speeding route 41 minibus on Aubrey Barker Road on Monday night was still critical in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital last evening.
The Traffic Department of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is urging more vigilance from road users as it relates to their response to police and fire service sirens.
The Guyana Power & Light (GPL) yesterday said that it was not a power shortage from the company that caused the disruption of water supply, rather it was the damage done to a “pothead”, which is a vital component in the distribution system that takes power into the Shelter Belt compound.
Environmental group Green-peace has voiced concerns over plans by a group of investors to build a nuclear power plant in Suriname.
Judges at the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) Inter-Secondary Schools Debating Competition said the competition between the Institute of Business Education (IBE) and Camille’s Institute of Business and Science Studies was “possibly one of the best” in the series.
Guyana Stores Ltd, which traditionally sported a picturesque landscaped eastern entrance, is now altering its appearance by adding a food court, which has obliterated some of the green space there.
The cannon, which disappeared from the Ministry of Public Works compound in January has not yet been located.
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) will have a number of 30-seat buses on call to provide logistics support for persons using the Park-and-Ride facility to get to the National Stadium at Providence for the 2007 Cricket World Cup Super Eight games in Guyana.
