GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 26, 2022 - Social media pundits, practitioners, bloggers, tweeters as well as internet TV radio broadcasters have been warned to ensure that the information they broadcast and publish is accurate or they could end up paying millions of dollars in damages as a result of lawsuits.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 23, 2022 - Security companies which employ guards as independent contractors in order to avoid tax liabilities are now in a tizzy, as The Supreme Court has ruled that security guards at Marksman Limited are employees and not independent contractors.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica-September 22, 2022 - While Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica, continue to contemplate whether to make the move, the Government of Saint Lucia has announced that it will shortly be making the transition from the Privy Council to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the country’s final court of appeal.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 2022 - The case brought against former Finance Minister Winston Jordan, by Attorney General (AG) and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall as regards the sale of land to BK Marine Inc., was thrown out by the Supreme Court on the basis that Nandlall’s claim constituted an abuse of the court’s process.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 06, 2022 - Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has filed an action in the Court of Appeal challenging the decision of Acting Chief Justice Roxane George 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.
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.