Courts

Superintendent of Police, Karl Wilson has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and granted bail by the court, the Guyana Police Force said Thursday. Mr Wilson, who is stationed at the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters, appeared on Wednesday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court #5, before Magistrate Faith McGusty. Police said he was placed on GY$75,000 bail on each ...

The Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Monday issued summonses for One Communications (Guyana) Inc. and Tennicia De Freitas, popularly known as Nekeita in the copyright case filed by Jackie Hanover, popularly known as Jackie Jaxx, and Ivan Harry who performs as D’Ivan. Hanover and Harry filed their copyright infringement lawsuit on Friday, September 20, ...

One Communications. formerly Guyana Telephone and Telegraph or GTT, on Saturday said it was probing a copyright infringement claim by two Guyanese musicians who have filed a US$1.6 million lawsuit in a New York court. “We are currently conducting a thorough investigation,” the telecommunications company said in a statement to Demerara Waves Online News. The company signaled it was interested ...

Guyanese musicians, Jackie “Jackie Jaxx” Hanover and Ivan “D’Ivan” Harry on Friday filed a US$1.6 million lawsuit in a New York court against One Communications for alleged copyright infringement of their songs at the company’s rebranding from GTT earlier this month without permission. “Upon information and belief, Defendants have infringed plaintiffs’ copyrights in the songs “Guyana” and “Oh Guyana” by ...

Original story was published here on Business Insider. A federal judge in Manhattan has found former president Donald Trump liable for damages in a hotly-contested copyright battle over Eddy Grant’s ’80s dance hit “Electric Avenue.” Business Insider reported that in a 30-page decision, the judge on Friday delivered a one-two blow that essentially ends the case pretrial, with nothing now left to ...

Guyanese policeman was prosecution’s witness FOX NEWS:-A New York bank manager sentenced last week to 9.5 years behind bars for a foiled murder-for-hire scheme against her brother-in-law allegedly told the would-be hitman that “rat poison can do a great job.” Reshma Massarone, a 40-year-old branch manager at Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, plotted to kill her sister’s husband over Facebook Messenger between ...

Public Works Minister, Deodat Indar has slapped opposition-aligned social media commentators, Sherod Duncan and Melissa Atwell with a GY$50 million defamation lawsuit. Mr Indar is also asking the High Court to order the duo to remove all false and defamatory posts from their Facebook pages, in addition to an injunction restraining them from publishing such defamatory words. Through his lawyer, ...

A man, who allegedly struck down and killed a Jamaican man in December 2019 in Queens, New York, was caught at a horse race meet in Guyana and taken back to the United States (US) where he was refused bail on Friday, officials and news reports said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum ...

Jamaican, Dr Chantal Ononaiwu has been selected by the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC), the independent body responsible for recruiting staff and judges for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), to join the CCJ as a Judge. The CCJ said she would be filling the vacancy created by the untimely retirement on 31 December, 2023 of Mr Justice ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday filed a notice to appeal a High Court decision earlier in the day that former Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Roxanne Myers must be compensated GY$2 million for wrongful arrest and detention during a probe into alleged electoral fraud in violation of Guyana’s Constitution. Among his requests of the Guyana Court of Appeal is for ...