Author: TrakkerNews

CONVICTED cocaine trafficker Rick Gomes was sentenced to a total of 34 years in prison by High Court Judge Gillian Lucky today.
Gomes was found guilty on two counts of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on Saturday.
He was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment on both charges. Gomes was convicted of being in possession of 18 packages of cocaine valued at $13 million.
He was also sentenced to five year in prison for possession of a revolver and three years in prison for possession of bullets. The sentences will run concurrently.

  Some residents of Laing Avenue were very much angry when a group of more than 25 men from the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) began to dismantle a section of a structure that housed a family of six including three children.

   Music is an essential part of our culture and as such it has great influence on our people and more so youths. Music has become one of the more potent tools to spread awareness and to educate people. It is a potent promotional tool. Thus, advertisers and others use jingles to promote their products and messages.

   CITIZENS will soon be alerted about impending disaster via their cell phone. The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) in conjunctioin with the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT)are expected to launch an Emergenyc Short Message Service (ESMS) tomorrow, the ODPM has announced.

   PROSPECTIVE top cop Canadian Dwayne Gibbs has just concluded a meeting with Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and National Security Brigadier John Sandy where Gibbs’ anti-crime intiatives were discussed. Gibbs’ described today’s meeting as fruitful. Gibbs is now on his way to a meeting with Director of Personnel Administration (DPA) Gloria Edwards-Joseph to discuss his contract, including salary and remuneration package.

   THE family of Jamaat-al-Muslimeen Abu Bakr has so far bought two of his 11 properties which the State put up for auction today in order to recover a $32 million debt resulting from the 1990 attempted coup. The auction is underway and so far four properties have been sold. Bakr’s wife, Fatima, won the bid at $1.1 million for a house at Queens Park West and one of his sons picked up the winning bid of $1.3 million for property in Debe.

Although there is no broadcast legislation in Guyana, the advisory committee on broadcasting ( ACB ) headed by the lone member Evan Persaud calls for broadcasting houses to take caution when transmitting the changing times of music videos.
The ACB call came with the steady influx of Caribbean Chutney music with lyrics of the use of RUM. This they say sends a wrong message to the young people of Guyana since statistics shows the increase domestic violence and suicide stems from the abuse of alcohol.

Relatives of murder victim, Neeshad Ali, are expected to be wrapped in tight security when his funeral begins in just under an hour.
Ali, the cousin of Government Minister Fazal Karim, is expected to be laid to rest under Muslim rites at the Waterloo Muslim Cemetery.
His wife and daughter who had been kidnapped by his murderers, and subsequently rescued by police, are likely to be at the funeral but under a cloud of police protection. The two have been in protective custody since their rescue.

   Attorney at Law Teni Housty says it will be a shame if the original work done by Guyana on the Low Carbon Development Strategy ( LCDS ) is not protected and reaches the hands of intellectual property thieves.

A gang of seven armed bandits attacked a family at Unity, Mahaica today around 2:30 h
during which Rajdeo Taijpaul, 53 years, was shot and injured.

Police investigations revealed that Rajdeo Taijpaul and his wife Sumintra Hemwant, 49 years, were outside in their yard as he was preparing to leave for work when they were confronted by a group of men, two of whom were armed with handguns and the others with cutlasses.

Rajdeo Taijpaul was shot to his left leg and right hand during the ordeal and his wife bore several chop wounds.