With criminal trials set to resume this week, the Government of Guyana, the Judiciary, the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Prisons Service are collaborating for speedy hearings and to enable prisoners to appear virtually before the courts.
This move comes in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic which has placed severe restraints on the movement and gathering of persons in every endeavour, a release from the Attorney General’s Chambers said yesterday.
It said that the teams met at the Umana Yana yesterday and made a series of important decisions. The release said that the Government team was led by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, and included Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn and a number of technical personnel from the National Data Management Authority.