Month: January 2018

In an attempt to provide some clarity on what may have led to the delay in Guyana acquiring the permission to set up a law school, Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Basil Williams has now shifted blame on Chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE), Reginald Armour. While Williams insists that the CLE had in 2017 given Guyana approval to establish this school, he said Armour had principally stated that the Council should defer the establishment of more law schools. There are presently three laws schools in the…

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Memories of British Guiana, specifically from 1959 to 1961, are forever cherished in timeless photos by Philip Llyn-Jones, a contactor from England who came to work here in Guyana. The photos tell of a time when Georgetown was a “Garden City” and people enjoyed the simplicity of life. Llyn-Jones’s daughter Pauline Grimshaw generously shares his photos with Sunday Times Magazine. In an interview with this publication, Grimshaw recalled that her father worked for a small British construction company near London; he was a quantity surveyor. The company he worked for…

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Duo in hot water over alleged attempt to bribe CANU rank Two men, one of whom is charged for conspiring back in 2016 to trafficking 48 kilograms of cocaine concealed in plywood, are in hot water after they allegedly attempted to bribe an officer attached to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). The men have been identified as Rajesh Kissoondyal, called “Paddle”, 47, of Lot 12 South Section Canal Number 12 Polder, West Bank Demerara, and Shamkumar Hariprashad, 38, of Lot 67 Alliance, Canal Number 12 Polder. Kissoondyal was hauled in…

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Twenty-nine-year-old, Quincy Messiah, who in November of 2014 murdered his friend following an argument, was on Wednesday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for the crime by Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court. After considering the facts of the case presented to him by State Prosecutors, Tiffini Lyken, Abigail Gibbs and Natasha Backa, Justice Singh told the accused, a former music cart vendor, that no excuse can justify his actions on the fateful day of November 28 2014, when he murdered Trevor Ragabeer. Both men, Messiah and Ragabeer resided at…

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A 12-member jury was empanelled before Justice James Bovell-Drakes at the opening of the Demerara Criminal Assizes on Tuesday to hear the case of Abiola Jacobs, who denied that she killed her estranged boyfriend’s mother, Donna Taylor, over the differences she had with the woman’s son. Jacobs, who was a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Private at the time of the woman’s demise, entered a not guilty plea when the murder indictment was presented by State Prosecutors Lisa Cave and Mandell Moore. According to reports, the then 55-year-old Taylor, a housewife,…

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