In November 2023, six western states filed a joint application before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) arguing for an ample and expansive understanding of genocide. This intervention, as it is legally termed, was made by Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK in relation to the genocide case The Gambia filed against Myanmar in 2019. The still on-going case revolves around the violent expulsion of Rohingya people from Myanmar into Bangladesh.
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In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. settled a lawsuit that the estate...
MONTEGO BAY, July 9, 2023 - A Montego Bay businessman who in 2020 was taken from his bed by the police and locked up under the state of emergency (SOE)...
GEORGETOWN, December 3, 2022 - Further to a multimillion dollar defamation lawsuit filed against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo by the Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 3, 2022 - Chief Scrutineer for the APNU+AFC coalition Carol Smith Joseph, has asked the High Court to block the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from using the...
BELIZE CITY, November 25, 2022 - Caribbean jurist, Louise Blenman has been sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of the CARICOM member state of...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 11, 2022 - The eight Opposition Members of Parliament who remain suspended over last December’s disruption to the Sitting of the National Assembly will on the 8th...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 5, 2022 - Lawyers for Guyana attorney Tameika Clarke, on Friday filed an action in the Supreme Court against the Attorney General, declaring that her fundamental right...
GEORTGETOWN, Guyana, November 2, 2022 - Demerara Waves - The Organization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations (OCCBA) has condemned the arrest of a Guyanese lawyer while she was advising her...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -November 1 2022 - The Supreme Court on the 23rd of November, is scheduled to begin examination of a suit brought by Opposition MP Vinceroy Jordan, against the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Oct. 26, 2022 - Case Management in Election Petition # 88 is expected to begin in the Guyana Court of Appeal on Tuesday November 1, 2022, following a...
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, October 20, 2022 - The Caribbean Court of Justice says it is extremely disappointed to learn that in a case in which the Attorney...
BROOKLYN, New York, October 19, 2022 - The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has taken issue with CCJ decision which overturned a Guyana Court of Appeal decision the late service...
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