GEORGETOWN Guyana, September 1, 2022 - The APNU+AFC Opposition believes that there has been foot-dragging in relation the hearing of an appeal filed on the 21st of May 2021, in relation to Chief Justice Roxane George’s decision that there is nothing unconstitutional about Section 22 of the Election Laws (Amendment) Act and Order 60 (Recount Order).
NASSAU, Bahamas, August 31, 2022 - Supreme Court judge Justice Denise Lewis-Johnson has ruled that there can be no rape in marriage in The Bahamas.
MONTEGO BAY, August 28, 2022 - When Bharrat Jagdeo was Leader of the Opposition and leader of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), he repeatedly threatened that when his party got back into government, a number of persons would be jailed.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 12, 2022 - Consequent upon yesterday’s decision by the acting Chief Justice that President Irfaan Ali did not violate the Constitution when he unilaterally appointed Clifton Hicken to act as Commissioner of Police in the absence of consultations, Senior Counsel and member of Parliament Roysdale Forde says he will file an Appeal to set aside this decision.
KINGSTON, Jamaica August 6, 2022 - President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders, says it is clear that the fundamental reason for so few Jamaican cases reach London has to do with the crippling expense of appealing cases to the Privy Council in London, England.
KINGSTON, July 28, 2022 - Member of Parliament for St Catherine Southern Fitz Jackson has filed a suit in the Supreme Court against the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited (Scotiabank) in an effort to prevent banks from illegally extracting funds from their customers and the public at large.
GEORGETOWN Guyana – July 15, 2022 - Chief Justice of Guyana’s Supreme Court, Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire, today placed a halt to any meaningful consultation between President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton, as regards the appointment of a Commissioner of police.
GEORGETOWN, July 11, 2022 - Guyana’s Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) says it welcomes the decision of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in decriminalizing same sex intimacy in Antigua and Barbuda.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 1, 2022 - Shadow Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Mr. Roysdale A. Forde SC, and Mr. Selwyn A. Pieters, have filed a Fixed Date Application (FDA) in the High Court of Guyana against the unconstitutional action of President Irfaan Ali to appoint the Police Service Commission, and the Integrity Commission, without meaningful and substantive consultation with Leader of the Opposition as is required under 210 (1) and 232 of the constitution of Guyana.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 23, 2022 - An action has been filed in the Guyana Supreme Court, seeking to compel Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, to appoint persons to the office of Chancellor of the Judiciary, and Chief Justice of Guyana.
