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Agriculture Minister files GY$5 million libel suit against Opposition Leader

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Monday filed a GY$5 million libel lawsuit against Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton in connection with a number of posts on Facebook about chicken smuggling. That amount could be more if the High Court yields to Mr Mustapha’s request for exemplary and/or aggravated damages to be awarded. The Minister also wants the High Court to ...

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Jagdeo vs Ferguson: CCJ declares Guyana Court of Appeal can grant leave to hear appeal from evenly divided Full Court

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday, 19th January granted the application for special leave in the case of Bharrat Jagdeo v Annette Ferguson. The CCJ decided that the Court of Appeal of Guyana has jurisdiction to grant leave to hear an appeal from an evenly divided Full Court. On 9 January 2020, the Respondent filed proceedings in the High Court ...

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Attorney General concerned about delays in trials of alleged 2020 election fraudsters; DPP asks Chancellor to assign magistrates

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Monday expressed concern that magistrates have found reasons not to set trial dates for several then officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) who were accused of fraud in the 2020 general and regional elections. “Magistrates after magistrates have found reasons that can’t withstand scrutiny for not proceeding to try ...

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Preparations being made for judge-only trials – AG Nandlall

Legislation to allow for judge-only trials for specified cases is being drafted, even as Guyana prepares to abolish preliminary inquiries for indictable cases in the magistrate court, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Monday. “There are certain cases where it is now accepted that the interest of justice is not best served where judges must sit with a jury and we ...

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Training Instructor charged with assaulting ex partner

A 41-year-old man was Friday arraigned for assaulting his now ex-partner at his Wortmanville, Georgetown home and was granted GY$20,000 bail. Magistrate Dylon Bess also ordered the accused, Charles Kurleigh Louis of 39 Norton Street to return to court on February 2, 2024 for statements. He is charged with assaulting Adel Amanda Persaud at Lot 39 Norton Street, Wortmanville. Mr Louis ...

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Lawyers divided on serving summonses to anti-govt activist in New York

Shadow Attorney General, Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde and government parliamentarian Attorney-at-Law Sanjeev Datadin are at odds over the legality of serving summonses to anti- People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) activist, Rickford Burke at his New York residence. Mr Forde contended that the jurisdiction of Guyana’s courts and the authority of the Guyana Police Force are limited to this country’s geographical ...

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AG declines to speak on legality of Guyanese police officer participating in delivering summonses to Rickford Burke in US

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday declined to comment on whether the Guyana government obtained permission from the United States (US) for a Guyana Police Force (GPF) officer to be involved in the service of summonses to anti-government activist, Rickford Burke at his Brooklyn, New York residence. Asked whether he was comfortable that Assistant Superintendent of Police Rodwell Sarabo did ...

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Bouterse sentenced to 20 years in prison on appeal

By Ivan Cairo Paramaribo – Desi Bouterse, former coup leader, ex-commander and ex-president, was Wednesday sentenced for the third time to a twenty-year prison term for his part in the controversial multiple murder of fifteen men on December 8, 1982. No detention has been ordered against him. After being convicted twice by the Court Martial – in November 2019 and ...

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Court of Appeal dismisses opposition efforts for High Court re-hearing of election petition

Guyana’s Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed efforts by the opposition to reinstate an election petition, agreeing with the High Court that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had a constitutional right to order a recount of the votes cast in the March, 2020 general and regional elections. Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory said Section 22 of the ...

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