Femi Harris-Smith

Following hours of debate into the wee hours of yesterday morning, the National Assembly passed a bill to decriminalise cross-dressing, in keeping with a more that two-year-old Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling. 

The two captains of the boats which collided in the Mazaruni River back in 2013, claiming the lives of 10 persons have both been found not guilty of causing the deaths.

The two captains of the boats which crashed in the Mazaruni River back in 2013 claiming the lives of 10 persons, blamed each other for the collision when they led their respective defences yesterday.

Oliver Permaul, Andre James and Rohan Johnson were yesterday discharged over the 2017 murder of Tain mother Leilawatie Mohamed, after High Court Judge Jo-Ann Barlow found no evidence against them.

Daniel Watson who in 2018 held his reputed wife’s head under water, causing her to suffocate, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years behind bars for her killing, after pleading to the charge of manslaughter.

Forty-nine-year-old Wazir Potter was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 18 years behind bars for the rape of a 12-year-old boy in 2018.

Neither of the boats involved in the deadly 2013 Mazaruni River crash was licensed at the time of the tragedy which claimed the lives of 10.

The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday filed legal action against Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie over his continued refusal to effect the promotions announced last month.

Afibia Yankana and Akeem Haymer were yesterday afternoon both handed life sentences after admitting mid-trial that it was they who had fatally stabbed Rawle Rodrigues during a robbery back in 2017.

A passenger of one of the two boats which collided in the Mazaruni River claiming the lives of 10 persons back in 2013, said that the vessel he was in had been travelling extremely fast.

Following the conclusion of a retrial which was ordered by the Court of Appeal earlier this year, Randy Isaac was yesterday unanimously acquitted on charges of both murder and manslaughter for the 2013 Mashramani Day killing of Kumar Mohabir.

While affirming the convictions of murder and manslaughter in the killing of his two cousins, the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday reduced Abdul Budhoo’s sentence from what was a combined total of 62 years to 30 years instead.

Acting Chief Roxane George-Wiltshire SC has ruled that there is nothing unlawful in the Police Service Commission (PSC) not promoting officers who have pending disciplinary matters against them.

High Court Judge Damone Younge last Thursday granted a default judgement against the administration of the privately-run Mae’s School to halt construction of an annex to extend its operations.

Selwyn Dawson and Kelvin Persaud who were on trial for the 2017 murder of Cayenne-based clothes vendor Purcell Moore, have changed their pleas and were yesterday handed life sentences.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has been unsuccessful in his application to set aside the $20M default judgment he had been ordered to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson who had sued him for libel.

The court hearing the trial in the 2017 murder of Cayenne-based clothes vendor Purcell Moore, was told that the accused—Kelvin Persaud and Selwyn Dawson—were seen fleeing the scene after the shooting.

The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday commenced hearing arguments on the preliminary point of its jurisdiction to hear the appeal filed by the main opposition APNU+AFC to the dismissal of one of its two petitions challenging the March 2nd, 2020 General Elections.

Underscoring the premeditated and gruesome manner in which taxi driver Orin David was killed execution-style  in broad daylight in the presence of his family and neighbours, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday handed ex-soldier Jermaine Jefford a life sentence for the crime.

The state’s star witness on Monday said that it was Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours’, who fatally shot beautician Ashmini Harriram in 2014 but the accused yesterday maintained his innocence in a sworn statement.