Man gets two years for looting Corentyne nursery school
A man who admitted to breaking into a Corentyne nursery school and stealing a number of articles was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison by Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.
A man who admitted to breaking into a Corentyne nursery school and stealing a number of articles was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison by Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.
A man who admitted to cuffing and kicking his elderly mother after she refused to give him food was yesterday sentenced to six months in prison by Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said 421 persons were successfully prosecuted for possession of marijuana at a cost of $40,000 each during the period 2005-2006.
Preliminary inquiries into several high profile murders have been put off until next month for the prosecution to seek assistance from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
A man who allegedly stabbed a horse cart operator twice at his Railway Embankment home resulting in his death was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
The trial of several suspects said to be connected with drug-indicted Guyanese businessman Roger Khan resumed this week in a court in Suriname, according to a report from Caribbean Net News in Paramaribo.
Nine prisoners broke out from the high security Mazaruni Prison yesterday and four members of a joint services search party were later shot during a confrontation with the inmates.
The Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) is yet to decide whether it will embark on preparations for the local government polls before establishing a new voters’ list.
From Monday, Stabroek News will be carrying a VAT corner where questions relating to the implementation of the new tax will be answered by Ram and McRae.
A speeding mini-bus yesterday plunged into a canal at Harlem, West Coast Demerara when its right rear wheel flew off, leaving one passenger seriously hurt and several others nursing injuries.
A New Amsterdam store owner has let three of his staff go as a result of reduced sales in the aftermath of the implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT).
Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur says the statements that the main opposition PNCR-1G made regarding the implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT) are careless and ill-informed.
The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) yesterday expressed deep concern over the VAT-led increase in prices and pointed to suggestions to ease the problem but Com-missioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur says he is not prepared to support these including one to lower the 16% rate.
The Guyana Fire Service suspects arson in the case of the mysterious fire which gutted the Guyana Elections Commission secretariat building on September 9 last year.
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says that former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has thus far not been hired or contracted as a consultant in relation to law enforcement here.
The government has donated a service pick-up to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to boost its capacity to enforce the city’s by-laws.
Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh has presented an Order to revoke a controversial proviso that would have blocked salary increases for parliamentarians who did not give their written consent to them.
Guyana and other sugar producers in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) grouping are still to receive the 40 million euros from the European Union to cushion the effects of the price cut in sugar on the European market.
The Ministry of Human Services says it will be providing assistance to 103-year-old Gaitree Kowsilla.
Agriculture Ministers and other representatives involved in the sugar industry from Jamaica, Belize, Barbados and Belgium were taken on a visit yesterday to the construction site of the modern Skeldon sugar factory by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud.
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