Courts

Town Clerk of Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, Candace Nelson Monday night said a High Court Order blocks sellers from engaging in vending activities on the pavement or the roads just outside Muneshwer’s Limited on Water Street opposite Bounty Supermarket. She said City Mayor, Alfred Mentore was to  tell the vendors that they could sell on the roads. “The Court order is ...

Remaining stalls outside Muneshwer’s Store on Water  Street, Stabroek were Sunday demolished and taken away in keeping with a High Court order that was secured by that company, City Mayor Alfred Mentore said. ” The talks surrounded the agreed extension which went past the 15th January and our planned action by the City’s engineers dept to enforce the Order of ...

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Monday filed a GY$5 million libel lawsuit against Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton in connection with a number of posts on Facebook about chicken smuggling. That amount could be more if the High Court yields to Mr Mustapha’s request for exemplary and/or aggravated damages to be awarded. The Minister also wants the High Court to ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday, 19th January granted the application for special leave in the case of Bharrat Jagdeo v Annette Ferguson. The CCJ decided that the Court of Appeal of Guyana has jurisdiction to grant leave to hear an appeal from an evenly divided Full Court. On 9 January 2020, the Respondent filed proceedings in the High Court ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Tuesday said Guyana’s court system is expanding its first ever e-filing platform for the filing and management of cases in the magistrate and High Courts. She said the E-Litigation System for the Court of Appeal and the High Court would be ready for a soft-launch of phase one for the Court of Appeal in the ...

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Monday expressed concern that magistrates have found reasons not to set trial dates for several then officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) who were accused of fraud in the 2020 general and regional elections. “Magistrates after magistrates have found reasons that can’t withstand scrutiny for not proceeding to try ...

Legislation to allow for judge-only trials for specified cases is being drafted, even as Guyana prepares to abolish preliminary inquiries for indictable cases in the magistrate court, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Monday. “There are certain cases where it is now accepted that the interest of justice is not best served where judges must sit with a jury and we ...

A 41-year-old man was Friday arraigned for assaulting his now ex-partner at his Wortmanville, Georgetown home and was granted GY$20,000 bail. Magistrate Dylon Bess also ordered the accused, Charles Kurleigh Louis of 39 Norton Street to return to court on February 2, 2024 for statements. He is charged with assaulting Adel Amanda Persaud at Lot 39 Norton Street, Wortmanville. Mr Louis ...

Shadow Attorney General, Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde and government parliamentarian Attorney-at-Law Sanjeev Datadin are at odds over the legality of serving summonses to anti- People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) activist, Rickford Burke at his New York residence. Mr Forde contended that the jurisdiction of Guyana’s courts and the authority of the Guyana Police Force are limited to this country’s geographical ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday declined to comment on whether the Guyana government obtained permission from the United States (US) for a Guyana Police Force (GPF) officer to be involved in the service of summonses to anti-government activist, Rickford Burke at his Brooklyn, New York residence. Asked whether he was comfortable that Assistant Superintendent of Police Rodwell Sarabo did ...