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The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Justice Adrian Saunders has contracted COVID-19, a judge announced on Saturday in Guyana. Justice Saunders missed attending a breakfast presentation on the “CCJ’s Original Jurisdiction- an Introduction” under the auspices of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association. CCJ judge, Winston Anderson told the breakfast session at the Princess Hotel that Justice ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that public school teachers are to have a minimum salary dating back to 2020, and teachers living quarters across Guyana would be upgraded at a cost of GY$11 billion. “We are considering now, looking from when we came into office from 202o to now,  to ensure that within that period that all our teachers ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and women’s rights organisation, Red Thread, on Thursday continued to vent their frustration at government’s response to the damning alleged rape of a 16-year old schoolgirl by Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall. With the teen still in protective care of the State, all eyes are now on ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday announced that government has given the green-light to open negotiations with an American businessman to buy the Marriott Hotel for US$90 million. During the first round of bidding, Ramy El-Batrawi, founder of the investment group X, LLC , had bid for US$65 million but in the second round he upped that to US$90 million. ...

Police appeared to have wrapped up their investigations into Local Government Minister, Nigel Dharamlall’s alleged rape of a 16-year old girl and was poised to seek legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), even as that law enforcement agency fended off claims that it breached procedures in probing a sexual offence involving a minor. “The case file containing ...

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. On Wednesday, 21 June 2023, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), sitting in Guyana, delivered its judgment for the special leave application, AB v The Director of Public Prosecutions [2023] CCJ 8 (AJ) GY. The CCJ denied the Applicant special leave to appeal to the CCJ to review a decision of the Court of Appeal of Guyana, ...

The 16-year old girl, who has accused Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall of raping her, has been denied access to a private lawyer who plans to challenge that decision in the High Court. “Nothing is stopping the representatives of the State from being there to protect the interest of the State but nothing in law bars her from having her ...

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, June 21 (DW).- The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, Simon Stiell has been touting the long-term environmental and financial benefits of the Caribbean fast-tracking its shift from from oil and gas to solar and wind as energy sources. “The Caribbean is, to a large extent, still dependent on ...

A Venezuelan woman, who has been convicted and jailed for operating a brothel, is now facing nine charges of Trafficking In Persons from her homeland, police said in a statement. The woman has been identified as Mayelin Cordova,51, of Byderabo Road, Bartica, Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). Police said the woman would be charged based on advice by the Director of Public ...

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, June 21 (DW).- President of the Caribbean Development Bank Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon on Wednesday said the international community should provide increased climate finance as well as the private sector should play a major role in investment and finance in the region. “We must unlock private capital for the Region and mobilise private sector financing but ...