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The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has taken three persons to court for allegedly inciting racial hatred or hostility among Guyanese, and one of them has since pleaded guilty, the commission said Thursday. “Based on the specific nature of their conduct and words, the charges against the defendants included causing ethnic/racial violence or hatred and exciting hostility or ill-will on the ...

The High Court on Thursday extended its temporary order, effectively blocking the Police Service Commission (PSC) from promoting several officers to the rank of Assistant Commissioner until a challenge by Senior Superintendent Calvin Brutus that he is being bypassed due to a perceived frivolous complaint of indiscipline is resolved. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire gave  Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who is ...

Members of Guyana’s legal team who are representing Guyana at the International Court of Justice in the border controversy case with Venezuela on Tuesday dismissed Attorney Dr. Bertie Ramcharran’s critique of that court’s decision that it has jurisdiction to hear the merits of the case. Dr. Ramcharran was particularly taken aback by the ICJ’s decision in which it referred to ...

The International Court of Justice has said that Venezuela is bound by its decisions even if it does not recognise the jurisdiction of that United Nations juridical body. “A judgment on jurisdiction, as on the merits, is final and binding on the parties under Articles 59 and 60 of the Statute,” the World Court said last Friday in deciding that ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday condemned the Private Sector Commission’s call for several election commission officials, who have been charged with election-related offences, saying that business organisation must stop being a mouthpiece for the People’s Progressive Party. “This is wicked and unacceptable. The APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) condemns this kind of political posturing by the Private Sector ...

Venezuela has rejected the decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to accept jurisdiction to hear the controversy over the 1899 settlement of the land boundary with Guyana. “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates the ruling issued by the ICJ in the aforementioned terms, while claiming, once again, the validity of the 1966 Geneva Agreement and ratifying that it ...

The mother and brother of one of the Henrys who were brutally hacked to death in September, have been slapped with several charges related the altercation between them and policemen at the Sparendaam Police Station earlier this week. Police said 24-year-old Colwyn Henry and his mother Gail Johnson, both of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice, allegedly assaulted a police sergeant ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday asked the State to prove that it obeyed the Combatting in Trafficking In Persons Act, after claiming that the now departed 26 Haitians had been deemed as victims of people trafficking. “I am just more interested in the legal issues that I have raised because when I read the affidavits because, to my mind ...

Newly-minted Senior Counsel, Timothy Jonas is recommending a broad-based committee of legal experts be established to recommend to the President who should be conferred with Silk, following a High Court ruling that cited the need for a transparent process. Attorney General Anil Nandlall, during the case about the role of the Executive in the process, also promised that efforts would ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled that it could hear Guyana’s case on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that settled the land dispute with Venezuela, even as that Spanish-speaking country was criticised for not participating in the hearing on the jurisdiction of the World Court. The decision was by a majority of 12 votes ...