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Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon was “presumptuous” to say in his recent decision in favour of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) that President Irfaan Ali’s meeting with teachers did not amount to collective bargaining. “In this case, he wasn’t doing anything illegal for the court to… but it’s presumptuousness to criticise the President, ...

A security guard and a businessman, who are both from Bartica, who are implicated in the alleged theft of solar panels from the Two Miles Primary School, have been granted bail, the Guyana Police Force said Thursday. Security guard, 26-year-old Shawn Caesar of Two and a Half Miles, Bartica, Potaro Road, Essequibo was charged with simple larceny. When the charge ...

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Saturday disagreed with the Guyana government’s intention to appeal a High Court decision that deemed the recent 29-day strike by teachers “lawful and legitimate” because the administration had rebuffed every effort by the union to negotiate increased salaries. “We note that the government has announced its intention to appeal the High Court’s ruling “to the ...

The driver of a truck belonging to an Indian construction company, which slammed into a police vehicle and injured the current Guyana Police Force’s Traffic Chief, Superintendent Mahendra Singh last year, has been charged with dangerous driving. The driver, 29-year old Romel Benjamin of  15 Lovely Lass Village West Coast Berbice, was charged and arraigned on January 10, 2024, five ...

The High Court on Monday ordered the recently-elected 12-member Management Committee of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU) to take up office and so replace the Karen Van Sluytman-Corbin-led previous committee. “We are addressing that with our lawyers,” she told Demerara Waves Online News when asked if an injunction would be sought along with a new court case. ...

The Venezuelan government on Monday defended its decision to submit its main arguments to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the border dispute with Guyana, saying it does not change its position of non-recognition of that United Nations (UN) judicial body. “The delivery of this document does not imply the consent of Venezuela or the recognition of the jurisdiction ...

Despite last year’s questionable referendum that rejected the International Court of Justice as the means of settling the border controversy, Venezuela has submitted arguments to the World Court. The Guyana government on Monday welcomed Venezuela’s decision to do so. “Guyana has repeatedly called on Venezuela to participate fully in the judicial proceedings and comply with the Court’s rulings, and therefore ...

Three magistrates would be sworn on Friday as Commissioners of Title (Land Court judges) to serve in the Land Court in Essequibo and Berbice, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) announced Wednesday night. They are Ms Esther Sam, Ms Renita Singh and Ms Christel Lambert. Land Court Judges hear matters related to ownership of land and awards transports, and hears and ...

Three juveniles were Wednesday charged with the murder of a teenaged boy at Patentia, West Bank Demerara, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the accused appeared at the Wales Magistrate Court before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver. They were remanded to the Juvenile Holding Center until 30th April, 2024. Seventeen year old Aaron Bess was stabbed with knife and lashed with ...

New York-based opposition activist, Rickford Burke has asked the High Court to quash the serving of a Guyana Magistrates court summons to him in New York by a Guyanese policeman, according to court documents. He wants a declaration that the purported service by Rodwell Sarabo an officer of the Guyana Police Force, in Brooklyn “is a nullity, without and in ...