Four months for speaker-under-shirt thief
Magistrate Geeta Chandan on Thursday sentenced a man to four months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to stealing a speaker from A.
Magistrate Geeta Chandan on Thursday sentenced a man to four months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to stealing a speaker from A.
Magistrate Geeta Chandan yesterday remanded to prison a fisherman who allegedly raped a ten-year-old girl.
A fourth man, who was allegedly part of a group of men, who stood in front of another man in a taxi in Albouystown and riddled him with bullets five years ago, was on Wednesday charged with the murder.
Fire destroyed a home at North Haslington, East Coast Demerara on Thursday night leaving 17 people, among them seven children, homeless.
As a service to the public Stabroek News is reprinting a portion of the list of zero-rated food items as many shopkeepers and citizens have complained that they have not been following this matter closely.
Muneshwers Limited and N.P. Home Department Store were served summonses yesterday for alleged invoicing violations of the Value-Added Tax (VAT) law.
A Corentyne resident, who took his family to the Tom and Jerry Play Centre at the Esplanade Park in New Amsterdam last Tuesday, has come forward to recount their “scary experience” with the rollercoaster ride and to urge the organisers to put proper safety measures in place.
Eighteen fishermen from the Corentyne and East Coast Demerara were terrorized and robbed in four separate boats by pirates near the Corentyne River on Thursday.
The Genito Urinary Medicine Clinic at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) said it has nearly completed the process of computerising patients’ data.
A young mother who was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she suffered burns about her body on Christmas morning, succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday.
Figures reported by the Ministry of Agriculture on the rice sector revealed an increase in output and export earnings for 2006 over the previous year while sugar also showed in-creased production but was below the revised target of 279,000 metric tonnes.
A 22-year-old mason of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, charged with robbery under arms at Vickram’s Jewellery was refused bail when he appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
Phase Three of public ticketing for the ICC CWC 2007 matches has been pushed back to February 1 and the distribution of tickets to those persons who made purchases in Phases One and Two has also been delayed.
Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has announced a new disconnection campaign in a bid to recover $2.4B from defaulting customers.
The city’s departments which had their power cut off recently in a row over money had their electricity restored yesterday following fruitful discussions between the Mayor and City Council and the power company.
The Ministry of Health is placing heightened focus on mental health, building a strong surveillance system for infectious diseases and raising life expectancy among other things as part of its work plan for 2007.
The ten-year-old boy who was hit by a car a stone’s throw away from the East La Penitence Police Station and his home on Christmas Day, succumbed yesterday to the massive head injuries he sustained.
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security plans to provide counselling to the 13-year-old mother whose five-day-old baby was taken by a woman who allegedly sent her to buy clothes for the child.
The Freedom of Information legislation that aims to allow public access to government bodies has not yet been tabled in the National Assembly.
The General Manager of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel has “no comment” to make on President Bharrat Jagdeo’s remarks that the rooms at the international hotel were “atrocious.”
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