Appeal Court sets aside conviction and sentence; orders retrial for convicted killer
The Court of Appeal has set aside the conviction and 28-year jail sentence imposed on 35-year-old Orin Jerrick for the unlawful killing of minibus...
Neesa Gopaul’s killers protest severe sentence, unsafe verdict to quash conviction
Bibi Goopaul and her former love, Jarvis Small, who were sentenced to more than 200 years in jail for the 2010 murder of 16-year-old...
Man who chopped wife for wanting an abortion arrested, charged
A 39-year-old man who brutally chopped his reputed wife on February 24, last, because she wanted to have an abortion was arrested and charged...
APNU/AFC impulses for expeditious hearing of elections petition
The A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU/AFC) this morning filed its Elections Petition at the High Court challenging the validity of the...
High Court grants AG, Exxon permission to join case seeking to quash permit for...
High Court Judge, Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry has approved applications by Attorney General, Anil Nandlall and ExxonMobil’s affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL)...
Businessman gets additional one-year jail sentence for trafficking cocaine
Three months after a businessman was sentenced to 3.5 years for trafficking cocaine, he was moments ago given an additional one year sentence after...
Pensioner challenges 7 years jail sentence for sexual assault on underage girl
Kenrick Morrison, who is said to be in his 70s, and was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for engaging in sexual activity with an...
Fish vendor charged for stabbing friend who provoked him about wife
“Me and he been drinking at a rum shop and he start telling me about me wife and wha he does do to her,”...
Sexual offences involving children dominate Demerara Criminal Assizes
Sexual offences involving children have dominated the list of cases for trial at the January Demerara Criminal Assizes which opened last week Tuesday. The...
Mechanic remanded for attempting to kill man
A 26-year-old mechanic, who allegedly stabbed a man during a fight, was today charged and remanded to prison for the offence.
Feraz Narine, of 246...
