Fishermen charged with theft of GRA Vessel

The trio from Annandale, East Coast Demerara appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan jointly charged with the indictable offence.
The court was told that the men, Nazir Khan, 44, a boat captain; Himchan Moonchan 29 and Taijram Boodram, 33 on July 2nd at Ruimveldt, stole a vessel valued $2.5M property of the GRA.
Attorney- at law Clyde Forde represented the fishermen while the matter was prosecuted by Police Inspector Gordon Mansfield.
Mansfield told the court that on July 2, law enforcement officers from the GRA carried out an exercise at Mahaica and seized the vessel. He said the vessel was moored at the Ruimveldt Police Marine Wharf for safe keeping at about 00.30 on the same day. According to Mansfield around 2:15 the boat was discovered missing, prompting a police search. The vessel was later seen being towed by another boat with the four men inside.
The prosecutor did not object to the men being released on bail and the Chief Magistrate granted them $250,000 dollars bail each. The trio will make their next court appearance on July 20th.

62-year-old pensioner kills his 40-year-old lover for not properly cooking his meals

The murder took place at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice around 2:00 this morning, but the woman’s lifeless body was only discovered until around 7:00 am according to the Police.
 Dead is Shabana Babita Ishack. The suspect is in custody and admitted to Police Investigators that he severely beat the woman with pieces of wood and an iron bar because his meals were not properly cooked.
 The Police say the victim who was reportedly a heavy drinker, started a common law relationship with the suspect about three months ago. Neighbours heard the woman screaming and when they went over, later on, she was already dead with multiple injuries about her body.

Cosmetologist busted with cocaine, child-father wanted

The woman, Natasha Blair of 92 Grove Diamond, East Bank Demerara was an outgoing passenger booked to travel to the United States on Monday 2nd July 2018. She was at the time traveling with her 11month old daughter and had checked in her luggage and whilst on her way to the departure lounge she was intercepted by CANU Ranks who escorted her to a City hospital where suspected cocaine pellets were displayed in her digestive tract via an x-ray machine, there was also an object inserted in her lower extremity that was also discovered according to a release from CANU.
The woman was admitted as a patient and doctors have since extracted one large object suspected to contain cocaine from her lower extremity.  CANU’s release also added that regarding the ingested pellets seen in her digestive tract, she has so-far excreted 3 suspected cocaine pellets and remains hospitalised.
Her 11-month-old baby was handed over to her grandmother.
Meanwhile, CANU is now in search of the suspect’s child father Sherwin Stoby also known as KONG. His last address is given as 87 Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown Guyana. CANU said anyone knowing his whereabouts are asked to contact CANU at 227-3507.

5 in custody after CANU busts over 7 kilograms of cocaine at CJIA CAMEX Bond

A release from CANU said the shipper Navindra Sarwan is one of 5 in custody in relation to the cocaine found under the vehicle of the said shipper, whilst the said vehicle was parked inside the compound of the CAMEX Bond CJIA Timheri.
The bust was done on July 2nd, 2018 around 23:00hrs by CANU ranks. 5 males are now in custody pending Investigation.
According to CANU, the shipper was scheduled to ship ground provisions and pumpkins on cargo flight OJ 258 destined for Canada.

23-years for a man who murdered of 9-year-old Shaquan Gittens back in April 2015.

The decision was handed down in the High Court this morning by  Justice Sandil Kissoon.
Brian Bobb- Semple will spend the next 23-years imprisonment for the murder of 9-year-old Shaquan Gittens back in April 2015.
There are reports the suspect told investigators that he grabbed the child on April 1, took him aback of Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt and sodomised him.
It is reported that while the ordeal was taking place he reportedly choked the lad until he became lifeless.
It was also reported that after committing the act, Bobb-Semple reportedly slept with Gittens under a tree but realised the following morning that the boy had died. This newscast understands that the man severed the child’s private part before having sex with his corpse; he then dumped the boy’s body into a canal.
The man at first was charged with the capital offence of murder but the 25-year-old man,25 pleaded guilty to the manslaughter charge and confessed that on that between April 1 and 4,2015 at Houston Backlands, East Bank Demerara, he murdered Shaquan Gittens.
Bobb-Semple will not eligible for parole.
At the trial, the young man was represented by Attorney-at-Law Maxwell McKay. In a plea of mitigation, McKay begged the court to be lenient on his client while stating that no person in their right state of mind would commit such a crime.
Bobb-Semple was committed to stand trial in the High Court in 2016 after the Preliminary Inquiry was completed in the Georgetown Magistrate Court before Magistrate Fabayo Azore.
It was during that trial  Bobb-Semple was deemed fit to stand trial following an evaluation Government Psychiatrist Dr. Bhiro Harry.

A monkey mountain, gold minder was today charged and remanded to prison for the murder of a Venezuelan national. The murder is said to have occurred at a bar at Black Water Landing, in the Cuyuni River.

The man 27-year-old Francisco Demattos appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Judy Latchman where he was not required to plea to the indictable charge of murder. Demattos is accused of stabbing Venezuelan, Gonsale Prieto on June 23.
The court that Demattos alleged became annoyed after he observed Prieto dancing with his girlfriend.
Prieto allegedly pushed the woman to the ground, sat on her chest and cut her hair with a knife.
It is said that Demattos intervened and stabbed Prieto to his chest, arm, and abdomen. Dematto has been remanded to prison until July 3.

A twenty-two-year-old prisoner was today remanded to prison for the murder of his father.

The young man Asif Hamid who is on remand for the 2015 murder of Corentyne business and burying his body in his backyard, was today charged with the murder of his father, Saeed Hamil called Sayo. Hamid, the key witness in the businessman’s murder disappeared in April.

The court was told that Hamid, an inmate in the New Amsterdam allegedly conspired with Antonio Balrup, a former Police Officer, and Satrohan Madran to kill his father.

Saeed Hamid, dead businessman

The dead man was the key witness in his son’s matter and was expected to testify against him.

Balrup and Madray were charged with the man’s murder on Wednesday, last. The men cracked under interrogation by the Police and confessed too killing the elder Hamid. The men who implicated Hamid directed the police to a religious building on West Coast of Berbice.

Hamid was granted bail in the sum of $300,000 and is expected to return to court on August 6.

It is said that Saeed Hamid the operator of a wholesale business disappeared on the day he left home to transact his business. The man’s teenage son reportedly made several calls to his father’s phone which went unanswered. A report was made and an investigation launched.