By GFBC Staff: Interestingly, the Sri Lankan-born Justice Levers married a Jamaican in 1977 and moved to Jamaica, where she practiced for 27 years. In 2002 she was invited to sit as an additional judge of the Grand Court and in the following year she applied successfully for a permanent appointment to that court.
By GFBC Staff: This means that while a Jamaican musician may have protected rights in Jamaica, this will not necessarily apply to the same work in Guyana or Antigua, and so on; though section 3 of the Jamaican Copyright Act no 5 of 1993, specifies that where a work has been first published in a specified country it shall be an offence in Jamaica to republish it without permission.
By GFBC Staff: President expected to sign the Cruise Ship Safety Act any day. It will require ships to report crimes as well as raise guard rails, install peepholes in stateroom doors and more.
By GFBC Staff: After the FBI showed up at Ahmad’s home in late May and asked about the loan, he asked Meeks to pay him back. Late last month, Meeks produced a cheque for US$59,000 through his lawyer. Records show Meeks took out a home equity loan on June 18 for US$59,650.
By GFBC Staff: Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle, said that once Harris-Moore faces charges in the Bahamas, her office would seek to extradite him to Washington state and coordinate with local jurisdictions about how his case would proceed.
By GFBC Staff: When his trial begins, he will have to answer to 21 fraud charges stemming from an alleged US$8 billion fraud conducted through the Stanford International Bank (SIB) in Antigua and Barbuda.
By GFBC Staff: The 76-year-old director fled the US on February 1, 1978, the day he was to be formally sentenced for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
By GFBC Staff: “We are going to be contesting very strongly the allegation outlined by the prosecution,” said Charles while describing the Crown’s version of events as “very wrong”.
NEW YORK, United States, Wednesday June 30, 2010 – A day before he was set to go on trial for being part of a New York airport bomb plot, Guyanese Abdel Nur changed his plea to guilty, leaving two of his co-accused to face the music alone today.
The 60-year-old will have to wait until November [...]
By GFBC Staff: Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined Arismends $5,000, saying: “It can’t be put down to just an accidental rubbing of the foot. It was not just resting, it was deliberate and prolonged.”
