Femi Harris-Smith

Finding a life sentence against Deosarran Bisnauth to have been severe, the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday instead imposed a 12-year sentence on the man who was convicted of manslaughter back in 2017.

The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed a 23-year sentence imposed upon Calvin Ramcharran who in 2012 raped and viciously beat a woman during the act.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) coastguards Sherwyn Hart, Deon Greenidge and Devon Gordon are currently challenging the death penalty imposed against them for the 2009 murder of Bartica gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass.

High Court judge Navindra Singh on Tuesday threw out a $50 million lawsuit filed by Magistrate Alex Moore against Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack SC, whom he had accused of defaming him.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC last night granted a conservatory order staying a previous order made by Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus for 26 Haitian nationals to be deported. 

Twenty-four-year-old Nigel Dodson who back in 2017 burnt a Kaneville house in which 8-month old Romain Seth lived, was yesterday handed a 30-year sentence for the murder of the baby who perished in the fire.

On January 18th acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will deliver her ruling on whether the two election petitions filed by A Part-nership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) will be thrown out or not. 

Arguing that former president David Granger is a necessary party to the two election petitions filed by the APNU+AFC which he heads, senior counsel Douglas Mendes says that the late service of the requisite documents on Granger is fatal to both petitions and they must therefore be thrown out.

Two days after his arraignment at which he pleaded not guilty to murdering and raping Cornelia Ida senior, Bibi Keniez, Jaipaul Hitlall was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison after changing his plea.  

The three men who shot and killed Prashad Nagar electrical engineer Saleem Azeez Abdool back in 2014, were each sentenced to 11 and a ½ years in prison after pleading to manslaughter charges before Justice Navindra Singh yesterday  afternoon.

On Monday, November 30th,  the High Court will proceed with hearing objections raised on the service of the petitions filed by  APNU+AFC —this time on former president David Granger who is among the listed respondents. 

In his submissions calling on the court to strike out the election petition filed by the main APNU+AFC Opposition contending that the March 2nd elections were unlawfully conducted, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC is arguing that service of this petition had not been properly effected.

The young man accused of killing Mahaicony businesswoman Bibi Shairoon Nesha Ali back in 2016 is likely to know his fate later today when a jury deliberates on a verdict.

The trial of the young man accused of the 2016 killing of Mahaicony businesswoman Bibi Shairoon Nesha Ali heard yesterday that his fingerprints had been found on a wardrobe in a bedroom of the woman’s home where her partially decomposed body was found.

Twenty-six-year-old Devon Chacon was yesterday released from prison after Justice Navindra Singh sentenced him to time served for the 2016 killing of father of two, Abdool Ameer Subrati whom he shot during a robbery.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has filed a legal challenge to overturn the recent decision of the now defunct Local Government Commission (LGC) to withhold its approval for the appointment of six city officers, including a new Town Clerk.

Curt Thomas was yesterday afternoon handed a 70-year sentence for the murder of Parika fuel dealer Seeram Singh whom he shot and killed during a robbery on the night of April 30th, 2016, at Parika Outfall, East Bank Essequibo.

Having heard all the arguments in the appeal filed by Bibi Sharima-Gopaul and her former partner Jarvis Small who were convicted for murdering Gopaul’s 16-year-old daughter Neesa, the Guyana Court of Appeal is now set to rule on a date to be announced.

At the murder trial yesterday of Eustace Griffith, police investigators told the court that he had confessed to stabbing Stabroek Market handyman Steven Arthur, stating that during a fight Arthur first pierced him with an icepick and he in turn stabbed him.

Sentenced to two years in jail and fined just under $700,000 for trafficking a pound of marijuana, a 36-year-old unemployed mother of four was yesterday released on $50,000 bail by the High Court pending an appeal of the sentence and fine imposed upon her by a Magistrate about two months ago.