Labourer slapped with attempted murder charge

Joel Benjamin, a 37-year-old labourer of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), was on Thursday arraigned before Suddie Magistrate Tamieka Clarke on an attempted murder charge which detailed that on April 2, at Queenstown Village, he attempted to murder Jonathan Singh, a miner and resident of Queenstown.

Charged: Joel Benjamin

Benjamin has been remanded to prison, and the case has been adjourned to April 25.