Femi Harris-Smith

Convicted sex offender Esan Germain who is currently serving a 65-year sentence for sexually abusing a 4-year-old on three occasions—with the final assault at age seven—now faces an additional 30 years behind bars for raping a 15-year-old girl three times.

Lennox Roberts, who planned the attack that resulted in the killing of Regent Multiplex Mall owner, Ganesh Ramlall, will be spending just about five years more in prison.

Unless the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) can present “fresh evidence” against him, Marcus Bisram will not be prosecuted for the 2016 murder of Berbice carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt that the police said he had ordered.

Kurt Erskine is now awaiting sentence after a jury yesterday afternoon convicted him of the 2015 unlawful killing of Regent Multiplex Mall owner, Ganesh Ramlall called Boyo, who had been shot eight times.

 “When I saw my son’s motionless body. I immediately felt cold and confused…my brain could not make sense of what I saw…too many thoughts began rushing through my mind…Brian is dead.”

High Court Judge, Gino Persaud has ruled that the challenge filed by the Police Service Commission (PSC) to the suspension of its Commissioners by President Irfaan Ali and the non-promotion of ranks can proceed, and that its former Chairman, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Slowe, having sufficient standing in the case, can stand in its stead—though now expired.

Forty-nine-year-old father of two Neil Archer, who killed his wife back in 2003 for which he completed a 17-year sentence in 2016, was yesterday sentenced to 14 years for the brutal chopping of another woman, whose fingers he severed in an attack as she slept, following his release from prison.

Following the conclusion of a sentencing hearing yesterday which was dominated by reports of the eight years of abuse Allison Bowen endured at the hands of her reputed husband, which eventually ended in her death—Alex Douglas was handed a life sentence—with the order to serve 20 years before becoming eligible for parole.

With credit for time served and other deductions from an 18-year sentence, Faizal Bacchus was yesterday released from prison over the 2015 killing of proprietor of the Regent Multiplex Mall, Ganesh Ramlall.

Finding the 25 years imposed upon him for the unlawful killing of businessman, Ashok Raghoo, to have been appropriate, the Guyana Court of Appeal has affirmed the sentence against Travis McDougall and dismissed his appeal.

High Court Judge Gino Persaud has ruled that the June 20th, 2019 decision of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to increase the cost for a certificate of compliance to 0.5% of what at that time was the market value of the property was among other things, in excess of jurisdiction, null and void.

Mechanic, Odingo Emmanuel, called ‘Dingo’, has been sentenced to 38 years in prison for raping a woman he violently attacked back in 2018, after breaking into and concealing himself in her home.

Repeat offender Akeem Edwards, who stabbed and killed fellow inmate Theon Smith during an argument at the Mazaruni Prison in 2014, was yesterday sentenced to 47 years in prison by Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Convicted sex offender Esan Germain who is currently serving a 65-year sentence for sexually abusing a 4-year-old on three occasions—with the final assault at age seven—has again been convicted—this time for raping a 15-year-old girl three times.

Travis Archer was yesterday morning discharged of the 2017 murder of Sophia resident Jamal Munroe, after trial Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall upheld a no-case submission made by defence attorney Latchmie Rahamat.

Finding what it described as “severe shortcomings,” the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday threw out a claim brought by the Government of Belize which had sued the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on allegations of failing to apply a 40% Common External Tariff (CET) on some 3,000 tons of brown sugar imported from Guatemala and Honduras in 2019.

Finding the 88 years imposed upon him for the murder of his former girlfriend to have been excessive, the Guyana Court of Appeal has decreased Jermaine Maynard’s sentence to 46 years, from which it ordered further deductions for time so far served since his conviction back in 2016.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC have been granted leave to appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the Guyana Court of Appeal’s ruling that it has 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.

Fifteen years on, former manager Maurice Arjoon is still engaged in a court battle for severance and other benefits owed by the New Building Society (NBS) which has been found to have wrongfully dismissed him back in 2007.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has appealed the ruling annulling its decision to reassess and impose additional taxes on goods imported by Chinese businessman Shanglin Lin.