Guyana's Opposition Leader granted $.75M bail

Guyana’s Op­po­si­tion Leader Azrud­din Mo­hamed was grant­ed GUY$750,000 (One Guyana dol­lar=US$0.004 cents) bail on Fri­day, af­ter he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Faith Mc­Gusty at the George­town Mag­is­trates’ Court on gun-re­lat­ed crimes.

Mo­hamed and two of his em­ploy­ees, who al­so were grant­ed bail of GUY$750,000 each, have been joint­ly charged with the il­le­gal pos­ses­sion of one .32 pis­tol, il­le­gal pos­ses­sion three match­ing rounds, and at­tempt­ing to per­vert the course of jus­tice by dis­charg­ing a firearm in the vicin­i­ty of the head of Po­lice Spe­cial Branch, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Prem Nar­ine.

Each of­fence car­ried bail of GUY$250,000 and the court has set sev­er­al bail con­di­tions in­clud­ing that the ac­cused men stay away the area where Nar­ine lives.