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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

by Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO – Ex-army leader and ex-president of Suriname, Desi Bouterse, called on his supporters Saturday evening during a party meeting in the run-up to the final verdict in the criminal case into the controversial murders of December 8, 1982, to keep calm. At the same time, he called for the judge to “use his mind” when ruling ...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders on Friday, backing Guyana’s position to resolve the border controversy with Venezuela through the International Court of Justice (ICJ), called for talks between Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali and the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. “CARICOM calls for a de-escalation of the conflict and for appropriate dialogue between the leaders of Venezuela and Guyana to ensure peaceful ...

Politician, Cathy Hughes is suing Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for more than GY$50 million for calling her a “low-life”, a term she says in court papers can mean, among other things, that she is a criminal, disreputable or immoral and can be tied to her race or gender. Ms Hughes said Mr Jagdeo slandered her at a news conference on ...

Venezuela on Friday stayed clear of signaling whether it would obey the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ order that it must not take any action in Guyana’s Essequibo County pending a declaration about the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that settled the land boundary between the two countries. The ICJ on Friday ruled that pending a final decision in the case, ...