Jason Abdulla, one of the three men charged with dousing newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon with human faeces, was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday, while his two co-accused in the crime, fellow PPP member Kwame McCoy and former bodyguard Sean Hinds, were found not guilty.
City magistrate Judy Latchman handed down the sentence to Abdulla and announced the acquittal of McCoy and Hinds at the conclusion of their trial.
The three men were charged with assaulting Kissoon by dousing him with human faeces during an attack in 2010.….
[Videos] PPP/C MPs clash with cops over Edghill ejection
Photos by Keno George The start of the consideration of the estimates of the revenue and expenditure for 2018 descended into chaos yesterday when opposition MPs faced off against police over a bid to physically remove member Juan Edghill from the parliament chamber and PPP/C members claim they were assaulted in the ensuing melee.
Body of murdered BV girl found in cemetery
The body of an 18-year-old Qualfon employee was yesterday morning discovered in a cemetery at Triumph, East Coast Demerara with her face mutilated and the police have since arrested five persons for questioning.
President’s revocation of Seafield farmers’ leases unlawful – CJ rules
Acting Chief Justice Roxane George has ruled that President David Granger acted unlawfully when he revoked the leases for lands belonging to a group of Seafield, West Coast Berbice farmers.
Ex-Chancellor refutes AG’s chambers claims of link to law school snag
Former acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh yesterday rejected claims by the Attorney General’s Chambers linking him to a purported about-face by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) on the establishment of a local law school.
Corruption needs to be addressed by gov’t, private sector
-says keen attention will be paid to 2020 elections The private sector is the driver of economic development and entrepreneurship is the driver of the private sector.