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The Guyana government on Monday said it might appeal a High Court decision that led to the issuance of a Local Content Certificate to the Guyana-registered RAMPS Logistics Inc. whose parent company is based in Trinidad. “There are strong concerns by the Ministry of Natural Resources as to the eligibility of this particular application for local content certification. And as ...

As the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) continues to hint at the possibility of legal action to address their concern about a bloated voters list and the Guyana Elections Commission’s failure to ensure electors reside where they are registered, one of their Election Commissioners on Sunday pointed to several possible grounds for returning to court. Opposition ...

The Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chief Security Officer Ronald Stuart on Wednesday said after then Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxane Myers failed in her effort to get him to order several persons to vacate the tabulation room to allow Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to do his work, a bomb hoax was called. “She said they were interfering with ...

Attorney-at-Law Tamieka Clarke on Friday asked the High Court to declare as unconstitutional the arrest and detention by police of any lawyer for advising a client to remain silent during questioning. Ms Clarke moved to the High Court after she was arrested on October 28, 2022 by agents of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for informing ...

Former ‘A’ Division Commander Assistant Police Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Friday confessed to disobeying orders by then Police Commissioner Leslie James for him and others to leave the District Four Returning Office at Ashmin’s Building on the basis that Statements of Poll needed to be protected. Mr Thomas said he received several calls from Mr James who was insisting that ...

The Chief Election Officer of the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) cannot alter information in the collation of results and other information, according to the incumbent Chief Vishnu Persaud. “No whatsoever to my knowledge and I must confess, I went back, I reviewed that section before I came to this hearing and there is no such provision,” he said in response ...

Retired Justice of  Appeal Stanley John, the Chairman of the three-man Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the circumstances surrounding the highly controversial March 2020 general and regional elections on Wednesday said only “credible” evidence would be considered in determining the findings of the probe that is expected to wrap up early next year. “In making our findings, we will have ...

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) and Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) on Friday condemned the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for arresting an Attorney-at-Law Tameika Clarke because she advised her client to remain silent during questioning, even as Attorney General Anil Nandlall said he instructed police to release her. The police force said the alleged arrest ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Sunday said the Opposition Leader could not initiate the process for the appointment of a substantive  Chancellor and Chief Justice, instead saying that is the function of the President. “What is important is the President who must initiate the process of the appointment and securing the Opposition Leader’s agreement. It’s not the other way around. ...

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Caribbean Court of Justice, like some other apex courts, has a practice of sending advance copies of its judgments to all the lawyers representing the parties to a case. Typically, these advance copies are provided to each counsel within 24 hours of the formal issuance of the judgment. The intent is to give ...