Femi Harris-Smith

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.

APNU+AFC MP  David Patterson has filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General and Minister of Finance seeking a declaration that the consideration and approval of budget proposals of constitutional agencies by the National Assembly on September 1st was in breach of Section 80 B(2) of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act (FMAA).

Curt Thomas was yesterday afternoon found guilty of the murder of Parika fuel dealer Seeram Singh but his sentencing has been deferred to facilitate the presentation of a probation report which his attorney requested.

Ex-policeman Orin Arthur, who in 2014 was among the gunmen who stormed the Sterling Products Limited compound at Providence where they shot and killed security guard Wilfred Stewart was yesterday sentenced to 14 years in jail for that killing as well as the paid hit on Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) engineer Trevor Abrams the following year.

Contractor Robert Benn, who shot and killed the driver of a car who had turned onto his driveway in 2016, was yesterday sentenced to 6 ½ years in jail after pleading guilty to a charge of manslaughter.

When the trial of Curt Thomas continued yesterday, Police Inspector Andre Grant admitted that there were deficiencies in the conduct of an identification (ID) parade at which the accused was pointed out, but said it was nonetheless fair since Thomas had been positively identified.

The trial of Curt Thomas for the 2016 murder of Parika fuel dealer Seeram Singh commenced yesterday morning before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

Audreyanna Thomas, whose services as Communications Officer were recently terminated with immediate effect by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), has launched a programme to assist persons like her who have been let go from public sector agencies in recent months.

On November 24th acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will commence hearing arguments on preliminary issues raised in the two election petitions filed by the main Opposition and she asserted that the petitions should be heard together though a final decision has not yet been taken.

On trial for the murder of his brother-in-law Terrence Adams, Les Charles Critchlow yesterday told the court that he would no longer be going through with the trial—instead accepting responsibility for the killing.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has discontinued the 2017 charges previously instituted against now-Attorney General Anil Nandlall over his alleged theft of law reports valued in excess of $2 million.

Allan Sim was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 60 years behind bars after a jury found him guilty of the murder of his former partner—hospital ambulance dispatcher Melissa Skeete whom he stabbed on November 23rd, 2015.

Sentenced back in 2017 to 62 years in jail for killing his cousins—brothers Imran and Shaheed Bacchus—Abdul Budhoo in an appeal has contended that the trial judge erred in directing the jury on provocation and that the sentence imposed upon him is severe.

Ganga Kishna and Avishkar Bissoon were yesterday morning  freed of murder charges which alleged that they had had set fire to a Robb Street building, killing a father and his two young daughters.

Allan Sim is likely to know his fate tomorrow when a jury deliberates on the case against him for the alleged murder of hospital ambulance dispatcher Melissa Skeete.

Mother of two, Angela Khan was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 10 years from which a number of deductions are to be made having pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Better Hope fisherman Bharrat Sugrim.

When the trial of Allan Sim for the murder of hospital ambulance dispatcher Melissa Skeete continued yesterday, the court heard from police investigators that the accused had said that he stabbed the woman using a surgical blade with which she first attacked him.

No date has yet been set by the High Court on when the elections petitions filed by the Opposition A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) will be called, nor has a judge been assigned to the matter yet.

Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry has ordered the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to pay $10.5 million in damages for the unlawful arrest and detention of a man, his two minor sons and his brother.

Imprisoned for the past 12 years awaiting trial for murder, Sherwin Nero is now free after Justice Navindra Singh sentenced him to time-served, stating that the time he had been incarcerated was a full sentence for manslaughter to which he pleaded.