Femi Harris-Smith

High Court Judge Damone Younge last Thursday granted a default judgement against the administration of the privately-run Mae’s School to halt construction of an annex to extend its operations.

Selwyn Dawson and Kelvin Persaud who were on trial for the 2017 murder of Cayenne-based clothes vendor Purcell Moore, have changed their pleas and were yesterday handed life sentences.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has been unsuccessful in his application to set aside the $20M default judgment he had been ordered to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson who had sued him for libel.

The court hearing the trial in the 2017 murder of Cayenne-based clothes vendor Purcell Moore, was told that the accused—Kelvin Persaud and Selwyn Dawson—were seen fleeing the scene after the shooting.

The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday commenced hearing arguments on the preliminary point of its jurisdiction to hear the appeal filed by the main opposition APNU+AFC to the dismissal of one of its two petitions challenging the March 2nd, 2020 General Elections.

Underscoring the premeditated and gruesome manner in which taxi driver Orin David was killed execution-style  in broad daylight in the presence of his family and neighbours, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday handed ex-soldier Jermaine Jefford a life sentence for the crime.

The state’s star witness on Monday said that it was Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours’, who fatally shot beautician Ashmini Harriram in 2014 but the accused yesterday maintained his innocence in a sworn statement.

Damon Assanah called “Devil” has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for raping a 13-year-old girl whom he also impregnated back in 2015.

Demerara Contractors and Engineers Limited (DCEL)—a subsidiary of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL)—is not the only Company on whose land Pritipaul Singh Investment (PSI) had been trespassing.

Following a ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday, which found that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not act unconstitutionally by ordering that Marcus Bisram be tried for the murder of Faiyaz Narinedatt, the former accused is expected to be placed back into custody.

In its continued bid to dispossess Demerara Contractors and Engineers Limited (DCEL) of a now-embattled piece of waterfront Providence land, Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) has lodged an appeal against a High Court ruling which found DCEL to be the rightful owners.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC has ordered that the Statements of Poll (SoPs) and Statements of Recount (SoRs) from last year’s general and regional elections, be released within the next 10 days to the prosecution, for trial of the charges laid against persons accused of fraud connected with those elections.

Forty-one-year-old boatman, Vickram Persaud was yesterday sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the 2009 rape of a young woman whom he took to a location other than where she had paid him to be taken.

On Thursday—May 27th—acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will rule on whether Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield will be added as a party to the proceedings in which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Commissioner of Police have requested the Statements of Poll (SoPs) and Statements of Recount (SoRs) from the March 2nd, 2020 elections for use in criminal cases against the CEO and others.

High Court judge Navindra Singh has ruled that murder accused Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours,’ will not be granted a stay of the capital indictment currently against him, since his right to a fair hearing has not been breached as he sought to contend.

Former police sergeant Shawn Sandy, was on Tuesday acquitted of the 2016 unlawful killing of his employer—dredge owner Feroze Khan—after the judge conducting his trial upheld a no-case submission.

On October 26th of last year, High Court Judge Nareshwar Harnanan had given Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) three months to completely vacate the piece of waterfront Providence land which Demerara Contractors and Engineers Limited (DCEL) said had always been legally theirs.

While the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the life sentence imposed against Dhupaul Singh who back in 2016 had been convicted for murder, it reduced the 25 years he had been given before being eligible for parole, to 20 years instead.

Linden resident, Colwyn Arthur was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 15 years in jail for the 2018 killing of Claude `Sonno’ DeJonge, who at the time shared a relationship with a woman Arthur was also once involved with.

Citing what was described as the “reckless, callous and merciless” manner in which Orpheus Johnson shot and killed two men and then attempted to murder the fiancée and 18-month-old child of one of them, a judge this  afternoon sentenced him to two life sentences.