KINGSTON, Jamaica: June 17, 2022 - The Opposition Peoples National Party, says it has taken note of the ruling of the Full Court of the Supreme Court in the case of Roshaine Clarke v the Attorney General, that several provisions of the Emergency Powers Regulations has breached the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 9, 2022 - After maintaining that the International Court Of Justice (ICJ) had no authority to determine the validity of the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899, as well as the settlement of the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Guyana, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has finally appeared before the ICJ and has objected to the admissibility of Guyana’s case.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 30, 2022 - The CCJ will on May 31, hold a case management conference for consolidated matters which concern the question of whether Guyana’s Court of Appeal can hear an appeal surrounding the dismissal of the Election Petition 99 of 2020.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 24, 2022 - Shawnette Bollers, a former Afro-Guyanese policewoman, plans to mount a legal challenge against the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) decision to withdraw a private criminal charge of inciting racial hostility, that she had filed against Indo-Guyanese Attorney-at-Law Nirvan Singh.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, April 30, 2022 - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund (CCJTF), Dr Linton A. Lewis has been re-elected unopposed to the position of Chair for another three year term.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 17, 2022 - President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, (CCJ) Justice Adrian Saunders is disappointed that Guyana has not been able to have a substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary and a Chief Justice in place for almost two decades, and wants to see the appointments made before the end of the year.
KINGSTON, April 2022 - The PNPYO notes with alarm the position adopted in the last Sunday Observer editorial in seeking to denounce our call for the government to set the process in motion for Jamaica to leave the Privy Council and have the Caribbean Court of Justice as our final appeal court during this 60th anniversary year.
UNITED STATES, Washington DC, April 7, 2022 - Ketanji Brown Jackson, a liberal appeals court judge, was confirmed to the supreme court today, after rancorous Senate approval process, to become the first Black woman to serve as a justice on the high court in its more than 200-year history. Three Republican Senators supported her nomination.
GEOIRGETOWN, Guyana, March 2022 - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday March 15, ruled that Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) could not unilaterally order a Magistrate to conduct another preliminary inquiry but must instead ask the High Court to decide.
KINGSTON, March 23, 2022 - The People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) has welcomed the news coming from both Government and Opposition that plans are moving ahead to make Jamaica a Republic.
