Femi Harris-Smith

While stating that Guyana would remain its “eternal neighbour” and therefore “brotherly relations of friendship and cooperation,” must be maintained, Vene-zuela in the same vein is calling for the World Court to dismiss Georgetown’s application for validation of the 1899 Arbitral Award setting the boundaries between the two countries.

Venezuela’s preliminary objections to Guyana’s application to the World Court for the validation of the 1899 arbitral award setting the boundaries between the two countries were on Friday dismissed as incoherent, legally misconceived and factually baseless.

The High Court has allowed the owner of the Panama-registered ship which collided with the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) last month to lodge the sum of $245.5m as limited liability compared to the more than $1b being sought by the bridge company and the vessel has now left Guyana’s waters.

Finding that Ramps Logistics had satisfied every requirement of the Local Content Act, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC has ordered Head of the Local Content Secretariat Martin Pertab to ensure that the Company is issued its Certificate of Registration no later than noon on Monday.

Ruling among other things that both the Minister of Natural Resources and the Local Content Secretariat breached the Local Content Act, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC this afternoon directed that Ramps Logistics be issued its Certificate of Registration no later than 12 noon on Monday, November 14th.

Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones has maintained that notwithstanding several of his colleagues being slated to speak on what has become the controversial passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill last year, they were never allowed by House Speaker Manzoor Nadir.

Twenty-two-year-old child sex offender, Orvin Smith who raped a 12-year-old girl has been sentenced to 16 years behind bars.

Despite his pleas for forgiveness, Jermaine Bristol was on Tuesday afternoon handed a life sentence for the 2018 killing of his girlfriend, Shanece Lawrence, whom he stabbed to death.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday ruled that the Guyana Court of Appeal has no jurisdiction to hear the appeal of a decision by acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC to throw out an APNU+AFC election petition challenging the results of the March 2nd 2020 polls.

With the Full Court not currently satisfied of its jurisdiction to grant interim reliefs which High Court Judge Damone Younge has also refused as she too determines her jurisdiction, the eight suspended Opposition MPs will have a longer wait to find out whether they get to attend parliamentary sittings; but the Court did order that their matter be swiftly heard given its public importance.

Farmer Ganesh Dhanraj, who in 2017 strangled his wife during an argument at their Parika home, was yesterday handed a 24-year sentence, but following deductions for his guilty plea and time spent on remand, will serve just under 11 years.

Following legal arguments yesterday on the fate of the second petition challenging the results of the March 2nd 2020 general elections, the Court of Appeal has fixed November 1st for a report on the status of the Chief Justice’s written ruling in the matter Following a hearing on what was described as a delay of  17 months in hearing the appeal of Chief Justice Roxane George’s oral ruling throwing out the petition, the Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards said that the appellants would not be shut out by the court.

“I took a life that was not mine to take and I am deeply and sincerely sorry.

When Dr Beverly Aiyanyor planned what she described as her solo trip to Guyana for vacation, it was for just that – vacation – and so obviously, nowhere in her plans was work included.

Cleavaughn Hamilton and his friend Ranachal Singh have both been sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 2016 killing of Hamilton’s former partner and the mother of his son, Simone Hackett.

Finding among other things that he had no interest in the 1,000 acres of land at Providence which his company Sunset Lakes had bought from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to develop private luxury housing, businessman Brian Tiwarie recently lost his challenge to title being passed to Precious Metal Mines Inc.

Fifteen years after he commenced what would become an arduous legal battle against the New Building Society (NBS) for severance and other benefits, former sacked manager Maurice Arjoon yesterday edged closer towards closure.

80-year-old Gordon Leslie Durant has been sentenced to another four years behind bars for the killing of his wife Joan, whom he buried in an unfinished bathroom at their Melanie North, East Coast Demerara home 10 years ago.

Finding that the Attorney General was not the proper party to have brought the action against former Finance Minister Winston Jordan over the controversial sale of river frontage to BK Marine, High Court Judge Brassington Reynolds yesterday threw out the case.

Leader of the Alliance For Change and member of the APNU+AFC parliamentary opposition, Khemraj Ramjattan, is adamant that he was denied an opportunity to speak on what has become the controversial passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill last December.