Sexual offence convict challenges 25 years jail sentence
48-year-old Jegede Hodge who was on December 12, 2019 sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment on four counts of engaging in sexual activity with an...
Diamond businessman charged with trafficking Cuban National
Alvin Parag, a 49-year-old businessman from Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, and Alberttown, Georgetown, was charged today with trafficking in persons.
Parag is accused...
Youth charged with murder of shopkeeper four years later
After allegedly raping and murdering a shopkeeper when he was just 17, Nathan Stoute was this afternoon charged and remanded to prison for the...
Trinidadian jailed for faking his own kidnapping files appeal
Sawak Maraj, the Trinidadian who was jailed for four years for faking his own kidnapping, has filed an appeal with the Court of Appeal...
Repeat offender remanded for assault, escaping custody
A teen who was recently released from prison after serving three months’ for stabbing his sister has once again found himself before a city...
“Thankful” taxi driver gets three years for trafficking 8 lbs ganja
“I am thankful for the lies the witnesses told," were the words of a taxi driver who was sentenced to three years on a...
Linden man challenging 15 years sentence for raping girl, 6
45-year-old Selwyn Lancaster, who was sentenced to 15 years behind bars after being found guilty of raping and fondling a six-year-old girl in 2018,...
Finance Minister finally pays over US$2.2M judgment to DIPCON
Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan has finally honoured the court judgment requiring that his Ministry pay over US$2,228,400 (GYD$466,348,855) to Trinidad construction company DIPCON....
Labourer gets four years jail time for killing 17-year-old
A 19-year-old labourer was today handed a four-year prison sentence for killing a 17-year-old boy back in June 2019.
Initially indicted for murder, Richard Harrychand...
Security guard remanded for possession of ecstasy, trafficking ganja
Weeks after being released on bail on a ganja trafficking charge, a 55-year-old security guard, was today back before a City Magistrate to answer...
