Haitian man pleads guilty to overstaying

A Haitian who was arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) while soliciting passengers was this morning charged with overstaying.

Duo jailed 5 years, fined $178M over cocaine-in-lumber bust

Tazim Gafoor and former customs officer Sherwayne DeAbreu were this afternoon jailed for five years and ordered to pay a fine of $178.4M each...

Man gets three years for ganja found hidden in ornament

An Albouystown resident who stashed a quantity of marijuana in some ornaments was this morning sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $1.3M after...

Taxi-driver remanded over rape charge

36-year-old Thurston Semple of Georgetown, appeared Friday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and was remanded for a rape charge. The...

Man who assaulted cop slapped with nine charges, remanded

Kessee Edwards, a 30-year-old construction worker from Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD) found himself facing a slew of charges after allegedly assaulting a police...

Port Kaituma man charged with assaulting cop, resisting arrest, three other offences

Joel DePeazer, 38, of Port Kaituma Water Front, North West District was charged on Monday with the following offences: a) Possession of Narcotic Contrary to...

Dentist charged over refusal to treat patient based on ethnicity

A Dentist employed at the Fort Wellington Hospital was today hauled before the court for allegedly refusing to treat a patient because of the...

Woman remanded for trafficking ganja

A woman who allegedly told police that she was keeping a quantity of marijuana in her cupboard for her son-in-law was this morning charge...

High court trial for man accused of raping girl, 15

Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus today committed a man to stand trial in the High Court for the rape of a 15-year-old girl....

Teenage girl denied bail over possession of cannabis

  A nineteen-year-old marketing clerk who was busted with 17.1 kilogrammes of cannabis was today charged and remanded. Anasia McAllister, of Perry Street, Tucville Georgetown, was...

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