On Thursday September 16th, Justice Gino Persaud will deliver his ruling on whether President Irfaan Ali’s name will be struck from the action filed by the Police Service Commission (PSC) regarding the annual promotion of police officers.
Kevin Mohan known as ‘Chucky,’ was yesterday afternoon handed a life sentence for the murder of his aunt Anita Mohan, who raised him from a baby and whom he slashed and beat to death and then robbed of $10,000 back in 2016.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the Public Service Commission are all likely to be re-appointed by the end of this month.
Prison overcrowding has been an age-old issue for the justice sector.
Anthony Jones, 41, called ‘Pastry Man,’ was yesterday morning handed a life sentence for the 2018 killing of 20-year-old Nyron Vyphuis, who was stabbed in the heart after intervening in an argument Jones was having with his (Jones’) wife, to prevent him from hitting the woman.
Arguing that they pose a real risk of flight, the police almost a month later have not released the two Brazilian men who were granted bail on charges of illegal entry and being busted with close to 1,000 pounds of cocaine, which investigators says were found when their plane crash-landed at Orealla back in May.
The government has enacted the recently passed bill to allow a person to acquire the estate of a spouse who has died without leaving a will.
Following hours of debate into the wee hours of yesterday morning, the National Assembly passed a bill to decriminalise cross-dressing, in keeping with a more that two-year-old Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling.
The two captains of the boats which collided in the Mazaruni River back in 2013, claiming the lives of 10 persons have both been found not guilty of causing the deaths.
The two captains of the boats which crashed in the Mazaruni River back in 2013 claiming the lives of 10 persons, blamed each other for the collision when they led their respective defences yesterday.
Oliver Permaul, Andre James and Rohan Johnson were yesterday discharged over the 2017 murder of Tain mother Leilawatie Mohamed, after High Court Judge Jo-Ann Barlow found no evidence against them.
Daniel Watson who in 2018 held his reputed wife’s head under water, causing her to suffocate, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years behind bars for her killing, after pleading to the charge of manslaughter.
Forty-nine-year-old Wazir Potter was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 18 years behind bars for the rape of a 12-year-old boy in 2018.
Neither of the boats involved in the deadly 2013 Mazaruni River crash was licensed at the time of the tragedy which claimed the lives of 10.
The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday filed legal action against Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie over his continued refusal to effect the promotions announced last month.
Afibia Yankana and Akeem Haymer were yesterday afternoon both handed life sentences after admitting mid-trial that it was they who had fatally stabbed Rawle Rodrigues during a robbery back in 2017.
A passenger of one of the two boats which collided in the Mazaruni River claiming the lives of 10 persons back in 2013, said that the vessel he was in had been travelling extremely fast.
Following the conclusion of a retrial which was ordered by the Court of Appeal earlier this year, Randy Isaac was yesterday unanimously acquitted on charges of both murder and manslaughter for the 2013 Mashramani Day killing of Kumar Mohabir.
While affirming the convictions of murder and manslaughter in the killing of his two cousins, the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday reduced Abdul Budhoo’s sentence from what was a combined total of 62 years to 30 years instead.
Acting Chief Roxane George-Wiltshire SC has ruled that there is nothing unlawful in the Police Service Commission (PSC) not promoting officers who have pending disciplinary matters against them.
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