Femi Harris-Smith

-sets timeframe for decision to be made once relevant info submitted -urges `less emotive and combative discourse’ Contrary to contentions made by Banks DIH (BDIH) Limited, a High Court Judge has ruled that the Guyana Securities Council (GSC) did consider an application it had made to incorporate Banks DIH Holdings Inc.,

The statutory time limit within which judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal are required to deliver their full written judgments, is discretionary and not mandatory.

– stresses importance of transparency In a unanimous ruling, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by political commentator and activist Ramon Gaskin, who for years had contended that separate environmental permits ought to have been granted to Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd (Hess) and China National Offshore Oil Cooperation Guyana (CNOOC) for their involvement in oil production here.

At a special Full Court sitting last Tuesday to honour her life and legacy, Justice Désirée Bernard was remembered for many things, but chief among them – and not surprisingly – as the woman who shattered glass ceilings to achieve many firsts in the legal fraternity.

With the release yesterday of Justice Sandil Kissoon’s written judgment declaring the strike action by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to have been legal and justified, it is expected that government will now move forward with filing an appeal as it has vowed.

Former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has filed an action in which he is seeking damages in excess of $300,000,000 against the police and Director of publications (DPP), whom he said had maliciously charged and prosecuted him.

The man responsible for the 2020 killing of court tout Darrell Breedy during a home invasion, has been sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after serving no less than 20 years. 

Attorney Ryan Crawford and his brother have been denied their attempt at ownership of some 100 acres of land, which they claimed had been given to their deceased father who was a lawyer, by a client in lieu of payment.

Justice of Appeal Prem Persaud will be remembered as a jurist who served his country and acquitted himself with distinction—entitling him a place in the annals of legal history—not only in Guyana but the Common-wealth Caribbean at large.

Sarah Browne and Vikash Ramkissoon whose appointments as parliamentary secretaries were nullified by the Court of Appeal, are challenging that ruling before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Ex-policeman Prince Reid has been handed a life sentence with the possibility of parole, only after serving 23 years, for the killing of two men into whom he had driven his minibus during a gaming fracas at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Demerara, back in 2017.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in a majority judgment has ruled that former manager of the New Building Society (NBS), Maurice Arjoon, who was found to have been wrongfully dismissed, being entitled to accrued pension of some $59 million, is not also entitled to severance benefits.

The controversy-ridden elections for a new Management Committee of the GPSCCUL has taken another turn with disgruntled members complaining to the Ministry of Labour that the polls on Saturday violated rules.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC has dismissed an application filed by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack, who was seeking to have former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan arrested without a right to be heard, and committed to be tried for the offence of misconduct in public office, which a Magistrate had discharged him of, after finding that there was not enough evidence to sustain the charge against him.

In a marathon hearing lasting just under five hours, the Caribbean Court of Justice yesterday heard arguments in the appeal filed by political commentator Ramon Gaskin, who has over the years strongly argued that separate environmental permits were not granted to Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd (Hess) and China National Offshore Oil Cooperation Guyana (CNOOC) for what he says is their involvement in oil production here.

As it had vowed, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has moved to the court to challenge the planned deduction from salaries of teachers involv-ed in the ongoing industrial action, through which they are calling for better wages and improved working conditions.

Though found guilty of murder, former Sophia block maker, Ishaka John, has been sentenced to a minimum period of custodial detention of eight years; as he has also been declared insane.

“I want to apologize to the deceased family. I never meant to take their loved one’s life.”

La Parfaite Harmonie disc jockey (DJ) Roger Gibbons who prosecutors say pretended to be the well-known DJ Ace—and who allegedly lied to a young woman about being able to offer her a modelling job before raping her—has been found not guilty.

While he has not set a specific date, Justice of Appeal Rishi Persaud said that he will deliver his ruling within the next two weeks, on whether he has jurisdiction to order  ExxonMobil to provide proof that it has indeed lodged a US$2 billion guarantee which is intended to indemnify Guyana against an oil spill and associated perils.