Tag Archives: High Court

The Guyana High Court is next month expected to rule on whether political parties perform State action because they internally select candidates for elections in the country. “Because the State has outsourced the process of nominating candidates for elections solely to political parties, the process by which the PNC (People’s National Congress) and PPP (People’s Progressive Party) nominate and determine ...

High Court Judge, Gino Persaud on Friday refused an application by Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus to accompany his wife to the United States for pregnancy-related medical attention. The police subsequently left at about 9 PM. Mr Brutus wanted to leave Guyana with his wife on Saturday. The Court refused the application based on the seriousness of the allegations and ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday dismissed applications for injunctions to block the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) from holding its internal elections for leader and members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC). “I am not satisfied that there is enough evidence to suspend or to injunct the holding of the Congress,” she said. The Notice of Application has no merit, ...

The Georgetown City Council on Sunday dismantled and carted off vendors’ stalls on the pavement around Demico House, Cornhill and Croal Streets and ordered sellers present to remove permanently, in compliance with a High Court order obtained by Banks DIH Limited. The City Engineer, Colvern Venture said City Police would be deployed to the Demico House area to ensure vendors ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Local Content Secretariat to issue a Local Content Certificate to the RAMPS Logistics (Guyana) Limited whose parent company is headquartered in Trinidad & Tobago. She ordered the Director of the Local Content Secretariat Martin Pertab to properly fulfill his duties without discretion to register or cause the Secretariat ...

The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh wants the local Court of Appeal to dismiss a case brought by a supporter of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change asking that the election management body use only credible votes to declare results of votes cast more than three months ago. In court papers seen by ...

Almost one week after the lower court effectively freed murder accused, Marcus Bisram, Bisram was Monday committed to stand trial for the indictable offence. Whim Magistrate, Renita Singh had twice found that there had been insufficient evidence during the preliminary inquiry for Bisram to stand trial by a High Court judge and jury. He was released on March 30 and ...

The Commonwealth Group of Foreign Ministers has called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to ensure results of last month’s general elections are transparent and credible. “Ministers called upon the Guyana Elections Commission to immediately fulfill its constitutional mandate and ensure the sovereign right of the people of Guyana to duly elect their Government is respected through a transparent and ...

The Full Court of the High Court on Tuesday ruled that the High Court does not hear a judicial review of the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) decision to order a recount of votes cast in the March 2, 2020, general elections. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire and Justice Naresh Harnanan gave the unanimous decision. The interim injunctions have been discharged and ...

Four days after the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and several small political parties succeeded in joining a High Court case by an A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) candidate for a judicial review of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to order a recount of the votes cast in general elections earlier this month, the PPP said the court ...