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 of Henrietta Lacks had filed against the biotech firm for its role in what the lawsuit called “a racially unjust medical system.”
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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) for twenty days before being released without charge, has been awarded more than $4 million for breaches of his constitutional rights.
Washington, CBS June 29, 2023 - — The United States Supreme Court today issued a landmark decision along a strict 6-3 conservative line, rejecting affirmative action in higher education which has prompted sharp and stinging dissents from two members of the court's liberal wing, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
KINGSTON, April 15, 2023 - Thirty years after he sexually assaulted a female relative, a 72 year-old man was on Friday sentenced to nearly five years imprisonment in the St Mary Circuit Court. He was charged with two counts of carnal abuse
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 24, 2023 - The Government of Guyana has agreed to reinstate the issuance of the subvention to the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G) as voted by the National Assembly.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 17, 2023 - High Court Judge Justice Damone Younge,in March is expected to hand down a decision in the case brought by Mr. Vinceroy Jordan who asked the High Court to direct President Irfaan Ali to uphold Article 127 of the Constitution of Guyana regarding the appointment of a Chancellor of the Judiciary and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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 Belize. Chief Justice Blenman was sworn in on November 22, 2022 before Belize’s Governor General Dame Froyla Tzalam, just over two months after she was sworn in as Belize’s Chief Justice of the High Court.
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 of December to find out the High Court’s ruling on whether it has jurisdiction to hear the case challenging the decision of the Privileges Committee of Parliament to suspend the MPs.
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 to personal liberty as guaranteed and protected by Article 139 of the Constitution was breached on 28th October when she was arrested by Officers of the Special Organised Crime Unit.
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 client in the presence of agents of the Guyana Police F0rce’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).