Courts

The Head of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Fazil Karimbaksh and Minister of Local Government, Anand Persaud filed two separate libel suits against reporter and owner of The Big Smith News Watch, Leroy Smith for a total of GY$605 million plus aggravated or exemplary damages. When contacted Friday evening, Mr Smith said he was not ...

Guyana Police Force Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus was Thursday slapped with 30 financial crime charges for transactions totalling GY$376.2 million ranging from money laundering, conspiracy to defraud, larceny, misconduct in public office and liability of public officers. He is represented by a battery of lawyers including Eusi Anderson and Earl Daniels. Despite objections by the prosecution to bail for ...

Assistant Police Commissioner of the Guyana Police Force, Calvin Brutus is facing 240 “impending” charges totalling about GY$800 million, Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and Assistant Police Commissioner Fizul Karimbaksh says in court documents. “I further contend that this investigation is significant and encompasses over 240 impending charges for alleged violations” of the Anti-Money ...

High Court Judge, Gino Persaud on Friday refused an application by Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus to accompany his wife to the United States for pregnancy-related medical attention. The police subsequently left at about 9 PM. Mr Brutus wanted to leave Guyana with his wife on Saturday. The Court refused the application based on the seriousness of the allegations and ...

Retired High Court judges, Brassington Reynolds and Franklin Holder have sued the Guyana government for failing to pay them a retroactive 8 percent salary increase on their annual rate of salary up to December 2021. In their lawsuits filed on October 10, 2024, by Attorney-at-Law Stephen Fraser, they said that is a violation of the Constitutional Offices (Remuneration of Holders) ...

Two men were Friday charged with the abduction of Joshua “Bricks” David and they were remanded to prison, while five other suspects surrendered and remained in custody, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said. Those charged with abduction in violation of the Kidnapping Act 2003 are Osafo Peters and Alpha Poole. They were not required to plea and were remanded to ...

An electrician has been jailed for one year after he pleaded guilty to stealing numerous street lights around the young professionals housing units at La Bonne Intention (LBI) Housing Scheme, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said Thursday. Police said 34-year-old Sharmo Jones of Plaisance Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara also told the court that he installed a number of the ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire has deemed Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s description of opposition politician Catherine Hughes as a “low life” unacceptable and chided political and other leaders in Guyana for behaviour that could lead to violent crime. Though the Chief Justice dismissed Ms Hughes’ lawsuit against Mr Jagdeo for racial and gender discrimination, she said the Vice President’s characterisation, which ...

Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire on Monday dismissed the legal proceedings filed by Mrs. Catherine Hughes regarding the State’s failure to operationalise the Human Rights Commission breached her constitutional rights and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s “low life” description of her constitutional entitlement to equality before the law and equality of women, according to the Attorney General’s Chambers. “The Honourable Chief Justice ...

More than 15 years after he had first argued that Guyanese were entitled to bootlegged textbooks, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said Guyana now needed to enact modern copyright and intellectual property legislation to make Guyana attractive to international businesses and protect local artistic works. “I think it’s time actually that we start strengthening our platform because the economy ...