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Woman charged with abetting accused granted $250,000 bail Bibi Ariefa Manzoor, the woman accused of aiding and abetting murder accused Ramnauth Doobay, after he allegedly murdered businessman Mark Anthony Gill in July, 2005 was released on bail on Monday at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.

A city policeman who allegedly assaulted a man so as to cause him actual bodily harm was yesterday taken before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Gunmen last evening shot up a vehicle belonging to a Swiss House Cambio manager during a minutes-long assault outside the parking lot at Buddy’s Pool Hall, injuring a security guard in the process and making off with $1.2M.

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a man who they believe may help them with their investigations into the disappearance of 19-year-old Friendship resident, Tenisha Morgan last month.

A Linden man, who the police arrested after they mistook him for `Fineman’ and the ex-husband of Alpha Hotel owner Roseanne Hall, is demanding a public apology from authorities saying he was embarrassed and his family shamed.

The security forces took to the skies yesterday conducting air reconnaissance patrols over the East Coast and East Bank of Demerara as part of the ongoing ‘Operation Restore Order.

Police yesterday morning shot a gunman in Alexander Village after he and an accomplice allegedly robbed a couple in Brickdam.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has announced that it has increased all pensions that were paid as at December 31, 2007 by five per cent from January 1, 2008.

Jesuit priest and social activist, Fr Malcolm Rodrigues is seeking to have a petition presented to the National Assembly to protest the government’s withdrawal of advertisements from Stabroek News.

The Caribbean Court of Justice was given a big boost by legal lumnaries in the Caribbean and Canada at a symposium organized by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) held last Friday in Castries, St.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited and the University of Guyana in another collaborative effort yesterday launched their ‘Career Coach’ programme for final year students from the Faculty of Social Sciences.

A new building to house the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court was finished one and a half years ago but it has still not been put into use.

There’s an online petition targeting Guyanese at home and abroad to urge President Bharatt Jagdeo to seek assistance from the United Nations (UN) in creating a commission to revamp the country’s justice and security system.

A 48-year-old electrical contractor was placed on $420,000 bail on charges of uttering forged currency, possession of forged currency and obtaining money by false pretence when he appeared yesterday before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

On February 4 the Guyana Consulate in Nickerie, Suriname held a brief memorial service for those slain at Lusignan and Buxton on the East Coast.

The Security Sector Reform Action Plan (SSRAP) is inadequate since it does not address insurgency, domestic terrorism, political violence or urban warfare, the AFC and GAP have reiterated.

The Ministry of Agriculture has expanded its flood watch to vulnerable low-lying areas along the coast following the heavy rainfall over the past few days.

Undertakers last night picked up the body of a man found lying on the Garden of Eden public road.

Romeo Rockerfeller, the husband of missing hotel owner Roseanne Hall, was brought before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court twice within the past two days on charges of obtaining credit by false pretence, producing a false travel document and uttering a forged document.

In yesterday’s Stabroek News report captioned ‘Missing hotelier’s ex-husband held’ it was incorrectly reported that the woman’s ex-husband had been held by police when it was in fact her current husband who was re-arrested following a court appearance.