Courts

As lawyers for the political parties contemplate whether they will appeal a decision on the issue of valid votes to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the governing A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Monday welcomed the local decision. “The Court of Appeal has today, in its judgment, confirmed the position of the APNU+AFC Coalition that the ...

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Monday ruled by majority  that it has jurisdiction to hear an elections case for GECOM and furthered interpreted that more votes are cast means more valid votes are cast. APNU+AFC supporter Eslyn David wanted the Court to find that the Chief Elections Officer must first determine credible votes cast to calculate the election results ...

The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh wants the local Court of Appeal to dismiss a case brought by a supporter of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change asking that the election management body use only credible votes to declare results of votes cast more than three months ago. In court papers seen by ...

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Friday agreed to accept a copy of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) recount report in a case brought by A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) supporter to order the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) not use the all of the recount results because they are tainted by alleged impersonation and other irregularities. The Court ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has pushed back future meetings now that the Guyana Court of Appeal has set Friday to hear a case filed by private citizen whether that election management body must first decide on a “final credible count” of the votes cast at the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections. Eslyn David  is asking that the ...

Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday awarded costs totalling GYD$450,000 to the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Officer, Retired Justice Claudette Singh and Region Four Returning Officer , Clairmont Mingo after the plaintiff’s lawyer, Anil Nandlall, withdrew the contempt of court case against Mingo. That’s because  lawyers  representing the now dead plaintiff, Reeaz Holladar withdrew the case because of insufficient ...

Ramlal Piroo, 32, has been sentenced to spend four and a half years in jail for having sex with a 12 year-old girl in 2019, the Antigua Newsroom reported. The Guyana-native who asked the child to be his girlfriend had several intimate encounters with her in 2018 before having sex with her in February of 2019 at the construction site ...

The man who allegedly killed his female companion, stuffed her body in a barrel and dumped it in a trench was Tuesday charged with murder. Suraj Veerasammy, also known as Rabbit, of Hampshire Village, Corentyne, Berbice, was charged with the murder of 24-year-old Deveika Bukram Narainedat of the same village. New Amsterdam Magistrate, Peter Hugh remanded the accused to prison ...

Almost one week after the lower court effectively freed murder accused, Marcus Bisram, Bisram was Monday committed to stand trial for the indictable offence. Whim Magistrate, Renita Singh had twice found that there had been insufficient evidence during the preliminary inquiry for Bisram to stand trial by a High Court judge and jury. He was released on March 30 and ...

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Sunday ruled that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot farm out its responsibilities such as the management and and supervision of general elections to anyone else. President of the Court, Justice Dawn Gregory said GECOM’s decision to act on an agreement by President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo for the Caribbean Community ...