Femi Harris-Smith

In a letter to Justice Navindra Singh, before whom his $2.6 billion libel suit is fixed for trial, former President David Granger stated that he did not want Justice Singh to conduct a pre-trial review (PTR) into the matter, and to also not preside over the trial.

Sherwin Clarke is now awaiting sentencing, after admitting mid-trial that he did have a hand in the 2016 killing of Better Hope pensioner David Ramkissoon, into whose house he and others had gone to rob.

As she planned the funeral of her husband, Mary Jagdeo did not know that she was expecting her fifth child who would never meet his father, “and I had to process that this unborn child would inevitably share no sacred moment with his dad.”

With a split decision from the Full Court and facing a $20M judgment against him, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is now hoping that the Guyana Court of Appeal would grant him special leave to appeal the effect of the Full Court’s decision.

Thirty-six-year-old Ronald Armstrong who back in 2013 had broken into a young woman’s home, and accosted her at gun-point in the bathroom, is now awaiting sentencing after being unanimously convicted of not only raping her, but burgling her home as well.

Noting the need for the expeditious hearing of election petitions, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has set Tuesday July 19th to hear the appeal filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC to the Guyana Court of Appeal’s ruling giving itself jurisdiction to hear the appeal of the dismissal of the Opposition APNU+AFC’s election petition which challenged the results of the March 2nd 2020 general elections.

One day after Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack faced mounting criticisms for providing no reasons for her decision to discontinue the private criminal charge of racial hostility filed by police corporal Shawnette Bollers against attorney Nirvan Singh, her Chambers issued a statement saying that advice had been provided to the police, though that had been after Singh had already been charged.

With the Full Court divided in its finding on the appeal filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to the $20M default judgment granted against him to former government Minister Annette Ferguson that decision currently stands.

Three years after their accomplices admitted robbing and killing retired professor Pairaudeau `Perry’ Mars,  Timothy Paul Chance and Andre Benjamin who had professed their innocence, yesterday admitted their involvement in the crime as well.

With a Court left to assess damages against it for chemical burns sustained by a former employee, locally operated Trinidad oil company—Centipede Offshore (Guyana) Inc.,

Leonard Fredericks will be spending just over the next five years behind bars for the 2015 killing of sixty-five-year-old miner Peter James, who he stabbed about the body during an argument in a liquor bar.

Thirty-six-year-old Linden resident  Corwyn Arthur who attacked and beat a 16-year-old girl with a knife before brutally raping her on a lonely road on the night of December 17th, 2013 heard from her impact statement, the psychological and other trauma his actions continue to cause her almost a decade later.

Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack found herself in the hot seat on Tuesday before judges of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) whom she tried to dissuade from their apparent view that the evidence used to convict Jarvis Small for the murder of former Queen’s College student—Neesa Gopaul—was “prejudicial” at best.

Following a ruling by the Trinidad Court of Appeal a month earlier, murder-accused Joel King of the twin-Island Republic became the first person on March 25th, to be granted bail on a capital offence in a hundred years. 

Pomeroon resident Richard Mohammed, who a year ago chopped a woman, severing one of her arms, several of her fingers and causing her to lose an eye in the process, will be spending the next 14 years in prison.

After a two-year hiatus, the ceremonial opening of the criminal assizes returned to the High Court in Demerara yesterday morning and heard a renewed call by the Bar Association for confirmed appointments to the top two posts in the judiciary and the recomposing of the Judicial Service Commission.

George Paton who the prosecution said was the getaway driver in the robbery, during which Bourda Market cheese vendor Troy Ramalho was shot and killed in 2018, has been sentenced to just about eight years.

Davanand Narine was yesterday morning sentenced to 18 years in prison for the 2019 stabbing death of his wife Farida Khayum, but following a number of deductions, will be spending just about the next seven years behind bars.

Former miner, Lexroy Garraway, called ‘Bam Bam,’ was yesterday morning sentenced to 20 for the 2019 killing of his drinking buddy, Eric Nurse whom he stabbed about the body during a scuffle.

Kurt Erskine, who was involved in the plot to rob Regent Multiplex Mall owner, Ganesh Ramlall, who was killed when bandits pounced on him, was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 25 years, but after deductions, will be spending just about 16 behind bars.