Rosignol rape and robbery accused bailed
Two men accused of raping and robbing a Rosignol woman were granted bail on Tuesday when they appeared before Magistrate Kim Kyte-John to answer to the charges at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court.
Two men accused of raping and robbing a Rosignol woman were granted bail on Tuesday when they appeared before Magistrate Kim Kyte-John to answer to the charges at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court.
Magistrate Chandra Sohan committed two men accused of murder to stand trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Berbice when they on Tuesday appeared before him at the Whim Magistrate’s Court.
Magistrate Kim Kyte-John committed murder accused Sean Isaacs to stand trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Berbice.
Magistrate Kim Kyte-John on Tuesday remanded to prison a man who appeared before her at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of attempted murder.
Drug accused businessman, Roger Khan was yesterday transferred from the Nassau County Correctional centre, a state prison to a US federal facility.
To date, Barama Company Limited has not made public its plans to get back on track with certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) after the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) announced that the company had been suspended.
Government has decided to start working on the National Agriculture Diversifica-tion Strategy using its own resources while still negotiating with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for assistance for same.
A number of businesses across Region Six (East Berbice/ Corentyne) are experiencing a downturn in sales following the introduction of the controversial Value Added Tax (VAT) on January 1 with consumers complaining that prices of certain commodities have skyrocketed way above their earning power.
Describing some of what he had seen as disturbing, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur on Tuesday slammed businesses in Berbice that are charging VAT on zero-rated items and he acknowledged that people in the region did not seem to understand the tax.
Within the next two years the Ministry of Health through its Guyana HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Project (GAPCP) will spend an additional $85.5M to fund sixteen HIV/AIDS-related programmes.
The International Press Institute (IPI), with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, is calling on the Guyana government to show greater transparency in awarding advertisements to the media here.
The Aircraft Owners Associa-tion of Guyana (AOAG) yesterday said there was an urgent need for modern air traffic control systems at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and that the government should expedite this.
Police were summoned on Tuesday to a city school after one of the students was found with a quantity of marijuana and it was later discovered that a gang was operating from the school peddling not only drugs but also stolen items.
An Airy Hall, Mahaicony family is now homeless after a fire gutted their home and a fire tender from Georgetown arrived one hour after the blaze started.
The United States (US) Embassy says under the recently passed Adam Walsh Act all family-based immigrant visa petitions will be screened to root out petitioners convicted of crimes against children.
The Inter School/Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship (IS/IVCF) of Guyana says it is starting this year’s agenda of moral and social development activities with a Thanksgiving Service, in this its 50th year.
A 12-year-old student of Belladrum Secondary School was admitted to the Fort Wellington Hospital in an unconscious state after she was hit behind her neck by another student on Tuesday around midday.
A teenaged boy was yesterday afternoon attacked and stabbed by two other boys as he stood waiting for transportation on the East Bank Demerara public road.
Police in Essequibo have started a hunt to recapture a prisoner who escaped from the Mazaruni prison last December and has been wreaking havoc upon residents in his hometown, Bethany village.
A ten-year-old student of Christianburg Primary School, Linden died tragically on Cholmondeley Hill, Wismar early yesterday afternoon while riding a bicycle which collided with a tractor-trailer a short distance from his home.
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