Femi Harris-Smith

Damon Assanah called “Devil” has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for raping a 13-year-old girl whom he also impregnated back in 2015.

Demerara Contractors and Engineers Limited (DCEL)—a subsidiary of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL)—is not the only Company on whose land Pritipaul Singh Investment (PSI) had been trespassing.

Following a ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday, which found that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not act unconstitutionally by ordering that Marcus Bisram be tried for the murder of Faiyaz Narinedatt, the former accused is expected to be placed back into custody.

In its continued bid to dispossess Demerara Contractors and Engineers Limited (DCEL) of a now-embattled piece of waterfront Providence land, Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) has lodged an appeal against a High Court ruling which found DCEL to be the rightful owners.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC has ordered that the Statements of Poll (SoPs) and Statements of Recount (SoRs) from last year’s general and regional elections, be released within the next 10 days to the prosecution, for trial of the charges laid against persons accused of fraud connected with those elections.

Forty-one-year-old boatman, Vickram Persaud was yesterday sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the 2009 rape of a young woman whom he took to a location other than where she had paid him to be taken.

On Thursday—May 27th—acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will rule on whether Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield will be added as a party to the proceedings in which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Commissioner of Police have requested the Statements of Poll (SoPs) and Statements of Recount (SoRs) from the March 2nd, 2020 elections for use in criminal cases against the CEO and others.

High Court judge Navindra Singh has ruled that murder accused Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours,’ will not be granted a stay of the capital indictment currently against him, since his right to a fair hearing has not been breached as he sought to contend.

Former police sergeant Shawn Sandy, was on Tuesday acquitted of the 2016 unlawful killing of his employer—dredge owner Feroze Khan—after the judge conducting his trial upheld a no-case submission.

On October 26th of last year, High Court Judge Nareshwar Harnanan had given Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) three months to completely vacate the piece of waterfront Providence land which Demerara Contractors and Engineers Limited (DCEL) said had always been legally theirs.

While the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the life sentence imposed against Dhupaul Singh who back in 2016 had been convicted for murder, it reduced the 25 years he had been given before being eligible for parole, to 20 years instead.

Linden resident, Colwyn Arthur was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 15 years in jail for the 2018 killing of Claude `Sonno’ DeJonge, who at the time shared a relationship with a woman Arthur was also once involved with.

Citing what was described as the “reckless, callous and merciless” manner in which Orpheus Johnson shot and killed two men and then attempted to murder the fiancée and 18-month-old child of one of them, a judge this  afternoon sentenced him to two life sentences.

Emphasizing the prevalence of murders/ homicides, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday imposed a life sentence on Travis Evans for killing Timehri youth Ronsley Clarke, which the judge described as senseless.

The opposition APNU+AFC has lost its bid to invalidate the national recount of ballots cast which was undertaken by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following last year’s contentious General and Regional Elections.

Mark Royden Williams who is accused of the 2007 murders of Rajesh Singh and Fazil Hakim in a rum shop at Agriculture Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD), has professed his innocence.

Chief Justice (CJ) (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire SC yesterday declared the appointment of Sarah Browne and Vikash Ramkissoon as Parliamentary Secretaries to be unlawful, as well as their membership of the National Assembly.

Regan Rodrigues called ‘Grey Boy,’ was yesterday afternoon freed of the 2015 murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, after trial Judge Sandil Kissoon upheld a no-case submission made by defence attorney Adrian Thompson.

Orpheus Johnson who is accused of killing two men—one whose fiancée and son he also attempted to murder; now faces sentencing after pleading guilty to the various offences when they were read to him yesterday morning.

Investigators testifying at the trial of Regan Rodrigues who is accused of murdering political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, say that the same gun used to kill Crum-Ewing had been found in Rodrigues’ Riverview, Ruimveldt residence.