Courts

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan was today granted $3 million bail on a charge of misconduct in public office related to the sale of a wharf to BK Marine. Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan ordered that Mr Jordan return to court on January 14, 2022. The Prosecution’s case is that it was sold well below market value and he did ...

Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall continues to criticise Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory after they ruled that the Guyana Court of Appeal could hear an appeal on the dismissal of an opposition election petition. Mr. Dharamlall’s latest criticism of the Justices of Appeal was in reaction to opposition Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) ...

In the wake of concerns by the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall Wednesday afternoon withdrew his call for the Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory to be removed because he thinks their election petition-related judgement and another decision are biased. When contacted, Mr. Dharamlall said he edited the post to ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday said Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall’s call for two Guyana Court of Appeal judges to be removed smacks of executive  interference and intimidation of the Judiciary.  “Dharamlall’s statement is also viewed as an open attempt to intimidate Judges into ruling in the government’s favour. It threatens the independence of our Judiciary,” the AFC ...

Even as Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced that government would be appealing a Guyana Court of Appeal decision that it has jurisdiction to hear an election petition appeal,  Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall on Wednesday defended his description of the Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory as “biased”. “The next step is that the ...

Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall’s public call for the removal of two Court of  Appeal judges after they ruled against his People’s Progressive Party in an election petition case was Tuesday night sharply condemned by opposition parliamentarian Annette Ferguson and other supporters of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). Shortly after the majority 2-1 decision by Justice Dawn Gregory ...

The Guyana Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear and determine whether the High Court properly dismissed an election petition  by the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change’s (APNU+AFC) The Guyana Court of Appeal’s decision was 2 to 1- The Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory as ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Attorney-at-Law Shalimar Hack said almost all case files and other criminal records were saved from Saturday’s fire at the building housing her chambers, but the blaze rekindled the urgent need to digitise the system. “It is something I have been asking for for years now to digitise the system. This shows the wisdom in ...

Two siblings- Mr. Delonte De Clou and Ms. Ama De Clou- were Monday admitted to  practice in Guyana, marking what Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire remarked appeared to be a Blenman ‘dynasty’ in the legal profession. “Both of you are fortunate in that I want to think that there is a Blenman-De Clou dynasty in the making. We have other legal ...

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 ...