A new father was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $30,000 after he admitted having 15 grammes of cannabis in his possession when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s court yesterday.
A Nandy Park customs broker and his reputed wife yesterday appeared in court accused of giving more than one kilogramme of cocaine to a Bahamian woman, who was later nabbed at the airport with the drugs hidden in false walls of her suitcase.
A man who reportedly stole an empty barrel was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
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Dear Editor, I totally agree with Dr Ramsammy’s intention to regulate the health profession.
The six-member board of inquiry that was set up to investigate the January 12 escape of nine prisoners from the Mazaruni jail yesterday handed over their report to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.
Dear Editor, The prisoners who escaped from the Mazaruni prison stated that they carried out the act because of the conditions in the prison, particularly the food issue.
The exhuming of the body of a north west woman has led to claims that she had been buried alive while heavily pregnant.
Dear Editor, Thanks for bringing to my attention the letter of Deodat Loaknauth which appeared in your newspaper of the 18th instant under the caption “My son was killed in a traffic accident nine months ago, I still don’t know what the Police intend to do”.
Russian bauxite giant RUSAL will be considering the feasibility of a hydropower plant in the Upper Mazaruni area and this was one of three items covered in a Letter of Intent (LOI) signed during President Bharrat Jagdeo’s lightning visit to Moscow last week.
Barbados came roaring back from dropping first innings points to inflict a five-wicket defeat on Guyana fifty five minutes after tea on the third day of their fifth round Carib Beer encounter at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda Ground yesterday.
Dear Editor, American President George Bush has not learnt anything from the defeat in the mid-term Congressional elections last November or the ongoing defeat in the war in Iraq.
Prospective organisers wishing to host social events during the Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight matches here in Guyana are asked to register with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) at its office at 91 Middle Street, Georgetown, no later than February 15.
Dear Editor, The recent actions by the Government of Guyana in and out of Parliament definitely endorses my long stated contention that essentially we, the Guyanese people, are in the clutches of a communist regime.
Rose Hall Town Pepsi recorded a thrilling two-run victory to edge Young Achievers in the final of the Carpens Plumbing and Spready’s Bakery under-19 cricket tournament at the Albion Community Development Centre ground recently.
Dear Editor, I risk writing this letter unsure of its publication but cannot continue to silently watch the strategy utilised to influence the PPP government to change its position of withholding advertisements from Stabroek News (Guyana).
Dear Editor, Now that the revelation has been handed down that we never had a secondary school in Regions One, Seven, Eight and Nine before the JPE (Jagdeo Pradoville Era) and the PRE (Proletarian Revolutionary Era) we are eagerly awaiting the announcement that Mahaica had no multilateral school before these two pristine eras.
Dear Editor, I wish to laud you for your editorial dated Tuesday February 6, 2007, and captioned “Constantine’s Tale”.
Dear Editor, I have noticed that the Stabroek News is now carrying a daily statement on its front page, denouncing government for its decision to withdraw advertisements from the paper.
Dear Editor, I still want to believe that we live in a country where freedom of speech and choice is our fundamental right.
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