Guyana News

A porkknocker who allegedly murdered another man over three months ago at North West District was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A bus conductor who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a teenaged girl was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson Ogle.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Georgetown outplayed Upper Demerara to lift the Guyana Football Federation’s Guyflag Inter-Association Football title on Sunday evening at the GFC ground.

Clive Lloyd is the new West Indies team manager, but he’s one with a difference.

Three days after the death of Pakistan World Cup team cricket coach Bob Woolmer here, the cause of his demise is still unknown.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.