Femi Harris-Smith

With the State denied both leave to appeal as well as its application for a stay, the way is now clear for Justice Gino Persaud to move ahead to hear the substantive challenge brought by the former Police Service Commission (PSC) to the suspension of its Commissioners and non-promotion of ranks.

With a $20M judgment and court costs in the sum of $75,000 currently against him for defaming former government Minister Annette Ferguson, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has incurred an additional $75,000 debt to Ferguson, after losing his bid to set aside the initial sums awarded to her.

With the Full Court set to rule on whether it will grant the State’s application to appeal its ruling that Justice Gino Persaud continues to hear the substantive challenge brought by the former  Police Service Commission (PSC) to the suspension of its Commissioners and non-promotion of ranks, Justice Persaud has stayed any further conduct of the matter.

Stating that the selection of an intimate partner is a private and a personal choice between same-sex consenting adults, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) has stuck down Antigua and Barbuda’s buggery laws which were challenged by gay rights activist  Orden David and the Women Against Rape Inc.,

Thirty-eight-year-old former taxi-driver Thurston Semple, has been sentenced to 11 years behind bars for brutally raping and beating a sex worker back in February of last year.

After spending eight years on remand for murder and facing two previous trials which both ended in hung juries, Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours,’ was visibly relieved yesterday after a jury in his third and final trial acquitted him.

Finding that Diamond Quarry had been given an “unequivocal assurance” from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) that its quarry licence application over 848 acres had been favourably considered, and Notice of the Intention to Grant would be published, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in a unanimous judgment, on Wednesday ruled that licence over what was deemed disputed lands, belongs to Diamond Quarry Inc.

In a letter to Justice Navindra Singh, before whom his $2.6 billion libel suit is fixed for trial, former President David Granger stated that he did not want Justice Singh to conduct a pre-trial review (PTR) into the matter, and to also not preside over the trial.

Sherwin Clarke is now awaiting sentencing, after admitting mid-trial that he did have a hand in the 2016 killing of Better Hope pensioner David Ramkissoon, into whose house he and others had gone to rob.

As she planned the funeral of her husband, Mary Jagdeo did not know that she was expecting her fifth child who would never meet his father, “and I had to process that this unborn child would inevitably share no sacred moment with his dad.”

With a split decision from the Full Court and facing a $20M judgment against him, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is now hoping that the Guyana Court of Appeal would grant him special leave to appeal the effect of the Full Court’s decision.

Thirty-six-year-old Ronald Armstrong who back in 2013 had broken into a young woman’s home, and accosted her at gun-point in the bathroom, is now awaiting sentencing after being unanimously convicted of not only raping her, but burgling her home as well.

Noting the need for the expeditious hearing of election petitions, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has set Tuesday July 19th to hear the appeal filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC to the Guyana Court of Appeal’s ruling giving itself jurisdiction to hear the appeal of the dismissal of the Opposition APNU+AFC’s election petition which challenged the results of the March 2nd 2020 general elections.

One day after Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack faced mounting criticisms for providing no reasons for her decision to discontinue the private criminal charge of racial hostility filed by police corporal Shawnette Bollers against attorney Nirvan Singh, her Chambers issued a statement saying that advice had been provided to the police, though that had been after Singh had already been charged.

With the Full Court divided in its finding on the appeal filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to the $20M default judgment granted against him to former government Minister Annette Ferguson that decision currently stands.

Three years after their accomplices admitted robbing and killing retired professor Pairaudeau `Perry’ Mars,  Timothy Paul Chance and Andre Benjamin who had professed their innocence, yesterday admitted their involvement in the crime as well.

With a Court left to assess damages against it for chemical burns sustained by a former employee, locally operated Trinidad oil company—Centipede Offshore (Guyana) Inc.,

Leonard Fredericks will be spending just over the next five years behind bars for the 2015 killing of sixty-five-year-old miner Peter James, who he stabbed about the body during an argument in a liquor bar.

Thirty-six-year-old Linden resident  Corwyn Arthur who attacked and beat a 16-year-old girl with a knife before brutally raping her on a lonely road on the night of December 17th, 2013 heard from her impact statement, the psychological and other trauma his actions continue to cause her almost a decade later.

Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack found herself in the hot seat on Tuesday before judges of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) whom she tried to dissuade from their apparent view that the evidence used to convict Jarvis Small for the murder of former Queen’s College student—Neesa Gopaul—was “prejudicial” at best.