The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday frowned heavily on what they regard as the power of Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to direct a court to recommit an accused person for fresh proceedings. “Whether the DPP is pr is not a member of the executive, to me it does not detract from the fact whether a court ...

Murder accused United States-based Guyanese, Marcus Bisram on Thursday asked the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to declare as unconstitutional a section of the Criminal Law Offences Act that allows the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to direct a magistrate to recommit a person to a retrial even if the courts find that there has been insufficient evidence. Through his ...

After languishing seven years in the political wilderness due to a disagreement with then People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) General Secretary Oscar Clarke, Ms. Vanessa Kissoon’s suspension from her party was Wednesday lifted paving the way for her return to frontline politics. Ms. Kissoon could not be immediately contacted, but a high-level party source confirmed late Wednesday night that that ...

A resident of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara has been fined $25,000 and ordered to provide community service at the police station in that East Coast Demerara village, police said Forty-one year Michael Clarke also known as Osafo Kasy of 42 Quamina Road pleaded guilty to cultivating a prohibited plant in violation of the Narcotic Drug and Pyschotropic Substances Act. He ...

A 20-year old man, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison where he is serving time for robbery under arms, was Wednesday morning recaptured, the Guyana Prison Service said. “It is alleged that the accused was working on the prison farm when a truck entered the prison compound through the eastern gate and the suspect exited the said gate and made ...

The Rice Producers Association (RPA) on Wednesday floated the idea of importing labour for that grain industry because of a shortage of workers due to lower birthrates, but said so far no application has been made to the government to grant work permits. “For us to address the situation immediately, government needs to import labour and the importation of labour ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has sought to justify the splitting of Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) into four electoral districts. “District number four is a special district in the electoral equation of our country. It is the most populated. It always has the greatest number of controversy so what we are proposing in these amendments, we are subdividing it,”  he said on ...

Two persons have been jointly charged today in relation to the alleged murder committed on Dr. Colin Roach earlier this month, police said. They are 19-year old Hilton Oliver Franklin and 18-year old Lenrick Byass. Police alleged that they murdered Dr Roach on the 2nd November, 2021 at his International Medical Clinic at 111 Duke Street, Kingston “in the course ...

Seven staff members of the Georgetown City Council’s Treasurer’s Department have been fired for alleged gross misconduct. The Local Government Commission says the decision was made unanimously to summarily dismiss the workers, following an internal probe while they had been sent on leave. “At the conclusion of the investigation, it was determined that the seven individuals were direct participants in ...

by Clement Rohee The Symposium on Police Integrity held recently to discuss integrity in policing raises a number of questions. The fundamental question has to do with the concept of integrity and it’s application to extant institutional and constitutional arrangements in Guyana. First on the question of integrity; According to England’s Lord Justice, John Fletcher Moulton; ““The true test of ...