On the 23 years imposed upon him for the rape and vicious beating of a woman, Calvin Ramcharran holds the view that the sentence is “manifestly excessive,” especially when considered against what is generally imposed in cases comparable to his and precedent.
-concern however raised over aspect of 2021 amendment to FMA Act In accordance with Article 218 (1) of the Constitution, the Minister of Finance or with responsibility therefor is authorized to lay before the National Assembly estimates of the revenues and expenditures of Guy-ana for the ensuing financial year for approval.
The State, through Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC, is suing Digicel Guyana for what it says is its unauthorised use of the spectrum in breach of the Telecommunications Act.
Bibi Nazeela Habiboodean and the man she hired to kill her father were yesterday both sentenced to death by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon, who described the savage beating the septuagenarian victim endured as reprehensible.
Bibi Nazeela Habiboodean and the man she man she hired to kill her father—Ruby businessman, Habiboodean—were this afternoon sentenced to death after a jury found them guilty of murder.
Jamaican national, Sandra Russell, has been awarded damages in the sum of $3.1 million dollars against the State for unlawfully detaining and breaching her constitutional rights after she was kept at the East La Penitence Police Station for almost eight months without charge after serving a sentence for narcotic possession.
Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd. (Esso) has been added as a party to the challenge brought by University of Guyana scientist Troy Thomas and conservationist Quadad De Freitas, who have filed an action against the State in which they argue that the greenhouse gases emitted from petroleum operations in the Liza Phase 1 are hazardous not only to the environment, but the health and wellbeing of citizens and must be stopped.
45-year-old Robert Joseph who admitted to raping a 15-year-old girl back in 2019 was yesterday sentenced to 10 years behind bars from which the prison has been ordered to make the mandatory one-third deduction which accompanies such pleas.
The High Court yesterday denied the granting of an interim injunction sought by unions against measures restricting access to public spaces by persons who have not been vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
President Irfaan Ali has been struck as a respondent from the action filed by the Police Service Commission (PSC) regarding the annual promotion of police officers and Ali’s suspension of the Commission.
Underscoring the need for a Town Clerk to the functioning of the Municipality, High Court Judge Jo-Ann Barlow has refused the grant of an injunction barring acting Town Clerk Candace Nelson from performing duties.
The attorney for the trade unions challenging the government’s COVID-19 vaccination policy was yesterday unsuccessful in a bid to secure the temporary suspension of the measures restricting access to public spaces by unvaccinated persons.
The convictions of Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her former partner Jarvis Small who murdered Gopaul’s 16-year-old daughter Neesa, have been affirmed by the Guyana Court of Appeal; but their combined 202–year sentence has been considerably reduced to a combined term of 90 years.
On Thursday September 16th, Justice Gino Persaud will deliver his ruling on whether President Irfaan Ali’s name will be struck from the action filed by the Police Service Commission (PSC) regarding the annual promotion of police officers.
Kevin Mohan known as ‘Chucky,’ was yesterday afternoon handed a life sentence for the murder of his aunt Anita Mohan, who raised him from a baby and whom he slashed and beat to death and then robbed of $10,000 back in 2016.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the Public Service Commission are all likely to be re-appointed by the end of this month.
Prison overcrowding has been an age-old issue for the justice sector.
Anthony Jones, 41, called ‘Pastry Man,’ was yesterday morning handed a life sentence for the 2018 killing of 20-year-old Nyron Vyphuis, who was stabbed in the heart after intervening in an argument Jones was having with his (Jones’) wife, to prevent him from hitting the woman.
Arguing that they pose a real risk of flight, the police almost a month later have not released the two Brazilian men who were granted bail on charges of illegal entry and being busted with close to 1,000 pounds of cocaine, which investigators says were found when their plane crash-landed at Orealla back in May.
The government has enacted the recently passed bill to allow a person to acquire the estate of a spouse who has died without leaving a will.
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