Femi Harris-Smith

Despite his pleas for forgiveness, Jermaine Bristol was on Tuesday afternoon handed a life sentence for the 2018 killing of his girlfriend, Shanece Lawrence, whom he stabbed to death.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday ruled that the Guyana Court of Appeal has no jurisdiction to hear the appeal of a decision by acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC to throw out an APNU+AFC election petition challenging the results of the March 2nd 2020 polls.

With the Full Court not currently satisfied of its jurisdiction to grant interim reliefs which High Court Judge Damone Younge has also refused as she too determines her jurisdiction, the eight suspended Opposition MPs will have a longer wait to find out whether they get to attend parliamentary sittings; but the Court did order that their matter be swiftly heard given its public importance.

Farmer Ganesh Dhanraj, who in 2017 strangled his wife during an argument at their Parika home, was yesterday handed a 24-year sentence, but following deductions for his guilty plea and time spent on remand, will serve just under 11 years.

Following legal arguments yesterday on the fate of the second petition challenging the results of the March 2nd 2020 general elections, the Court of Appeal has fixed November 1st for a report on the status of the Chief Justice’s written ruling in the matter Following a hearing on what was described as a delay of  17 months in hearing the appeal of Chief Justice Roxane George’s oral ruling throwing out the petition, the Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards said that the appellants would not be shut out by the court.

“I took a life that was not mine to take and I am deeply and sincerely sorry.

When Dr Beverly Aiyanyor planned what she described as her solo trip to Guyana for vacation, it was for just that – vacation – and so obviously, nowhere in her plans was work included.

Cleavaughn Hamilton and his friend Ranachal Singh have both been sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 2016 killing of Hamilton’s former partner and the mother of his son, Simone Hackett.

Finding among other things that he had no interest in the 1,000 acres of land at Providence which his company Sunset Lakes had bought from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to develop private luxury housing, businessman Brian Tiwarie recently lost his challenge to title being passed to Precious Metal Mines Inc.

Fifteen years after he commenced what would become an arduous legal battle against the New Building Society (NBS) for severance and other benefits, former sacked manager Maurice Arjoon yesterday edged closer towards closure.

80-year-old Gordon Leslie Durant has been sentenced to another four years behind bars for the killing of his wife Joan, whom he buried in an unfinished bathroom at their Melanie North, East Coast Demerara home 10 years ago.

Finding that the Attorney General was not the proper party to have brought the action against former Finance Minister Winston Jordan over the controversial sale of river frontage to BK Marine, High Court Judge Brassington Reynolds yesterday threw out the case.

Leader of the Alliance For Change and member of the APNU+AFC parliamentary opposition, Khemraj Ramjattan, is adamant that he was denied an opportunity to speak on what has become the controversial passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill last December.

With the second of its appeals still pending more than a year after both its petitions challenging the March 2nd, 2020 polls were thrown out, the Opposition APNU+AFC has been granted Monday October 3rd, 2022 to be heard on a Motion it has filed requesting the swift hearing of that outstanding appeal.

Days after his friend and co-conspirator admitted his part in the 2016 killing of Simone Hackett, Cleavaughn Hamilton on Monday confirmed their joint roles in the slaying of the mother of his son whom he stabbed at least a dozen times.

Currently facing several death sentences for his role in the February 2008 Bartica massacre in which 12 men, including three police officers were killed; Mark Royden Williams, called “Smallie,” was yesterday sentenced to hang.

Finding that the President had meaningfully consulted the Leader of the Opposition, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC has affirmed the appointments of the Chairpersons of both the Police Service Commission and the Integrity Commission.

Two months after a Judge ordered that he be paid his almost $30 million in outstanding benefits and in spite of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council’s repeated commitment to honour the ruling, former Town Clerk Royston King is yet to receive any payment.

Finding that the President had meaningfully consulted with the Opposition Leader, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC this afternoon affirmed the appointment of Patrick Findlay as Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC).

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday freed Jarvis Small of the murder of 16-year-old daughter Neesa Gopaul, while commuting the sentence of her mother to 25 years behind bars for the gruesome killing.