Magistrate Geeta Chandan remanded to prison a 30-year-old man charged with four counts of carnal knowledge against a 13-year-old girl, when he appeared at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Magistrate Geeta Chandan denied a West Berbice port-knocker his pre-trial freedom when he appeared at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer to a charge of felonious wounding.
The Venezuelan mission in Guyana has not received the expected report from authorities in that country on the invasion of Guyana’s territory and the destruction of two mining dredges by the Venezuelan military, nor has there been a response to Guyana’s diplomatic note from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.
A 47-year-old watch repairman was on Sunday morning discovered lying dead on the roadway not far from his Best Village, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home and it is suspected that he was murdered.
Electricity woes continued yesterday, since even as technicians were attempting to power a four-megawatt generating set on Sunday at Garden of Eden, it shut down, the power company said in a press release.
Police are investigating the death of a 24-year-old Linden/Soesdyke Highway man who was knocked from his bicycle on Sunday morning.
A number of Guyoil-franchised gas stations were out of gasoline or close to the end of their supplies yesterday.
President Bharrat Jagdeo is in Uganda attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit, which ends today.
The parliamentary opposition parties have decided to meet urgently with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to clarify matters related to the soon to begin house-to-house registration exercise.
Minister of Education Shaik Baksh said parents need to get involved in their children’s education, show commitment and work in partnership with the ministry to achieve success.
Although vendors at the Mackenzie Waterfront Market have been given a respite until next January before they have to move to the new market on Mackenzie Wharf, one of them has moved to the High Court seeking to have the decision by the town clerk of Linden to relocate them in the first place quashed.
Within and beyond the cricket, racial and political boundaries was the interesting theme of Guyanese born Professor Clem Seecharan’s Walter Rodney Memorial lecture at Warwick University last week.
Justice Jainarayan Singh has ordered the Guyana Elections Commission to show cause why the court should not quash its recent decision refusing proportionate allocation of monies to the combined parliamentary opposition parties for the purpose of offsetting their respective expenses for scrutineering activities in the house-to-house registration.
An ex-policeman was shot last evening as he tried to escape an armed man who approached him and a friend as they were sitting on a bridge in Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt.
A policeman is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the foot while cleaning his gun.
A Sophia resident is nursing a stab wound to his chest at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was accosted and robbed of a cellular phone on Saturday night.
Presidential Adviser on Empowerment Odinga Lumumba up to yesterday remained in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and not the High Dependency Unit (HDU) as was previously reported, in a stable condition.
A 16-year-old who reportedly slapped another boy on Sunday was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital after the same boy sought revenge and stabbed him in his abdomen last evening.
Radio’s Needy Children’s Fund recently gave scholarships to 22 children for the academic year 2007/2008 under its annual scholarship programme.
A 23-year-old man was early yesterday morning stabbed to death allegedly by a woman with whom he had a relationship for the past two years.
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