Magistrate Fazil Azeez at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday freed the Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara man accused of killing his wife by setting her afire after finding that there wasn’t a case against him.
A Guysuco worker who reportedly chopped another man to death at Princetown, Corriverton after the man attempted to steal from his yard, was charged with murder at the Albion Magistrate’s Court.
A 32-year-old man will spend his Christmas and New Year’s Day in the Camp Street prison after Magistrate’s Melissa Robertson-Ogle remanded him for allegedly forcing a woman into having sex with him.
A 61-year-old porkknocker, who stabbed a man several times after accusing him of stealing, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of attempted murder.
The PPP Central Executive has reprimanded senior party member Kellawan Lall over his conduct on November 18, during a rum shop brawl with a teenager and subsequently discharging his weapon.
Treatment at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital stalled yesterday as for more than an hour there was no medical personnel on duty.
If home is really where the heart is as suggested in the popular saying then the six affected families of the Laing Avenue fire are settled in comfortably and preparing for Christmas.
As the lawyers representing drug accused businessman Barry Datram continue to argue that the provisional arrest warrant issued for him is null and void, Justice Jainarayan Singh has ordered that he be brought before him on Thursday to determine whether or not Datram’s detention was legal.
The application fee for a US immigrant visa will increase from US$335 to US$355, from January 1, 2008, a press release from the US Embassy said on Friday.
The Ministry of Agriculture is reminding fishermen that it is illegal to moor vessels in front and behind sluice/koker channels as this will impede drainage.
Eighty-five law enforcers were awarded at a ceremony held at the Central Police Station, New Amsterdam for ‘B’ Division police officers on Friday last.
Government has lauded the work of Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) in its Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations with the European Commis-sion.
PPP General Secretary and Member of Parliament Donald Ramotar has indicated that he is interested in being the party’s presidential candidate at the 2011 general elections since President Bharrat Jagdeo would not be eligible for a third term.
Foreign Trade Minister Dr Henry Jeffrey and Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jungao on Friday inked a US$1.35 million grant for the implementation of bilateral co-operation projects.
The National Assembly unanimously approved a motion to give the late President Dr Cheddi Jagan due recognition as the longest serving Member of Parliament (MP).
Christmas weekend, 2004, a Tsunami devastated the coastlands of Asia, leaving over 21,000 dead, in 14 countries.
President Bharrat Jagdeo said citizens can learn lessons of humility and faith from the Christmas story and it is with this in mind that he extends greetings to the nation.
The National Assembly unanimously supported an amendment to the Immigration Act to grant Caricom nationals a permit to enter and remain in Guyana for a period of six months on their arrival here.
A number of city streets in the vicinity of Main street will be closed to vehicular traffic tomorrow to facilitate the yearly Main Big Lime event.
Up to press time yesterday the Brazilian man who was taken into custody on Sunday after his brother-in-law succumbed to a gunshot wound to the head was still assisting the police with investigations.
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