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The High Court on Friday awarded Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), David Patterson GY$1.2 million in damages for the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) blocking him from leaving Guyana more than one year ago. Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire also ordered the State to pay Mr Patterson GY$250,000 in legal costs, according to Mr Patterson’s lawyer, Nigel Hughes. Mr Hughes ...

High Court Judge, Nigel Niles on Wednesday awarded GY$24 million in damages and expenses concerning the police shooting death of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara villager, Quindon Bacchus. Bacchus, 25, was shot multiple times by a policeman on June 10, 2022, at Haslington, East Coast Demerara. While the State has charged police Lance Corporal Kristoff De Nobrega with Bacchus’ murder—he ...

About three hours after the Bank of Guyana said it would be pressing Republic Bank Guyana to compensate customers for inconvenience stemming from an upgrade of its system, the Trinidad-headquartered financial institution said it had days ago already decided to do so. “Importantly, at the Bank’s Annual General Meeting on December 9th 2019, Chairman, Nigel Baptiste, announced that the Bank ...