One Mile man accused of dangerous driving
Ewart Forester was on Wednesday placed on $70,000 bail when he appeared on a dangerous driving charge before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.
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Ewart Forester was on Wednesday placed on $70,000 bail when he appeared on a dangerous driving charge before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.
HOLT, England, (Reuters Life!) – A seven-year-old British boy is being hailed as an art genius after selling 16 paintings for 18,000 pounds ($29,280) in just 14 minutes.
An alleged cow thief was placed on $50,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan police used tear gas to disperse students protesting chronic electricity shortages as leftist President Hugo Chavez faced growing complaints over deteriorating public services.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – Reclusive U.S. author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the American literary classic “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died in New Hampshire aged 91, his agent said yesterday.
A 19-year-old man of 1409 Amelia’s Ward, Linden was sentenced to three months imprisonment after he admitted carrying offensive weapons.
Amidst growing concern over a government proposal for a six-month waiting period before mining can commence, Barticians plan to shut down the mining town on Monday, February 1st in protest.
– car found at herstelling Persons searching for missing taxi driver, Bomeshwar Sukhdeo, yesterday stumbled upon a badly burnt corpse at the side of the road leading to Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara, believed to be his.
The owner of Ezee Runnings taxi service who was shot in the chest while fending off robbers, succumbed to serious internal injuries early yesterday morning and in the wake of his death, relatives called for those responsible to be brought to justice.
Some sugar workers on the Albion and Wales estates yesterday went on strike as the stormy relationship between the workers and GuySuCo on the annual production incentive and other matters continues.
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit supervisor who was implicated in the passing of a suitcase with 50lbs of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was yesterday taken into custody by the police.
Guyana would be prepared to support a regional initiative to relocate survivors of the Haitian earthquake, according to President Bharrat Jagdeo, who also says the country’s homes and hospitals would be open to children that need care.
-Jagdeo says better use must be made of human resources The traditional focus of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will have to be shifted to ensure the better use of the country’s resources, Com-mander-in-Chief President Bharrat Jagdeo said.
Members of the joint services who are bent on committing criminal acts will be booted out, Commodore Gary Best said yesterday as he implored leaders of the forces to act now and “stop protecting underachievers”.
-Persaud tells Parliament committee The proposal for a six-month notification period before mining can commence came out of a meeting of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission (GLSC) and the Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA), Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud disclosed yesterday.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ruled that a prima facie case had been made out against the two prison officers who are accused of the 2008 murder of Edwin Niles and their case was transferred to the High Court for trial.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti appealed to foreign governments and charities yesterday to do more to help earthquake victims as rescuers pulled a teenage girl out of the rubble 15 days after her Port-au-Prince home collapsed around her.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – President Mahinda Rajapaksa won Sri Lanka’s first post-war national election on Wednesday, but his rival alleged vote-rigging from inside an hotel surrounded by soldiers which he said were sent to arrest him.
A 62-year-old businessman of Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder (BBP) sustained gunshot injuries to his foot when four armed bandits invaded his home around 7:20 last evening.
Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that a Linden woman serve four years imprisonment when she admitted being found with a quantity of cannabis.
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