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Sherwin Crandon, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) prosecutor who was held in a recent sting after allegedly collecting a $300,000 bribe to dismiss a court case, was charged today.
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Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
By Nick Watson, The Times The Gainesville teenager who was accused of plotting a foiled attack on a predominantly Black Gainesville church was sentenced Thursday, Oct. 22, to a combination of probation, counseling and four years at a Department of Juvenile Justice facility. Caitlyn Pye was charged Nov. 15 with criminal attempt to commit murder after planning an attack on Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Mill Street. Pye also went […]
Zimbabwean national Tinashe Chitsere, who is believed to be in the country illegally, is accused of murdering his own mother on 8 September this year.
A 26-year-old police constable stationed at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU), Eve Leary was on Tuesday night held at gunpoint and robbed of his XR motorcycle.
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Following her election to the Executive Committee of the World Olympians Association, the four-time Guyanese Olympian has proclaimed that she will be working in everyone’s interest.
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Mr Vital Kamerhe was found guilty of diverting public funds in a national housing project which the government launched last year.
Mr Kamerhe had been accused of embezzling public funds allocated for the erection of prefabricated houses intended for soldiers and police.
Although several observers were critical of the court case, arguing that there was insufficient evidence against Mr Kamerhe, the judge said there had indeed been “criminal intention” on his part and the businessman to divert some $48 million from the housing project.
However, Mr Kamerhe’s lawyers said they would challenge the judge’s decision.
“[The] judge did not prove how Vital Kamerhe embezzled the money.”
Music executive Russell Simmons is reportedly suing his ex-wife and entrepreneur Kimora Lee Simmons and her husband Tim Leissner for allegedly transferring and using his […]
Georgia AME Bishop Reginald T. Jackson issued a statement before the Sixth District of the AME Church rallied outside of the Augusta National Golf Club before the third round of golf's first major. 'While you are displaying your golfing prowess, some of those who passed this suppressive legislation will be sipping expensive drinks and eating delectable foods while also seeking […]
[Monitor] About 700 tea nursery bed operators in Kigezi Sub-region have accepted to withdraw a court case they had filled against government in 2018 in the Commercial Court in Kampala demanding payment of Shs143 billion after the latter accepted to pay the money in phases.
Five short films from the Caribbean and the Caribbean-US diaspora are due to be screened this evening as the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) continues to host the virtual edition of its annual LGBTQ+ film festival.
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Rachel Rossi | Special to California Black Media Partners A common misconception of the criminal justice system is that it is as simple as guilty people admitting their guilt and innocent people going free. The truth in our courtrooms is rarely so clear. Instead, there are layers of issues beyond guilt, including systemic injustice, rushed […]
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British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA), confirmed that it is taking cigarette orders but will not go against the lockdown regulations.
Five Acts to Follow: Legislation to Cut Rents and Other Bills You Should Know About
During difficult times such as now, it’s in your best interest to keep an eye on laws working their way through the California State Capitol and to know the legislators who are pushing them.
From legislation to cut rents and mortgages across California to your right to order invisible braces for your teeth online, here are five pieces of legislation that could impact the African American community across California, and meet the legislators who authored and introduced those bills.
Assembly Bill 3070 – Pulling Racism Out of the Jury Selection Process
Assemblymember Dr. Weber’s (D-San Diego) AB 3070 bill would prohibit a party from using a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of the prospective juror’s race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or religious affiliation.
Introduced on Feb. 21 of this year, Dr. Weber’s bill addresses how the jury-selection process referred to in courtrooms as Voir Dire — and conducted by trial judges, prosecutors or defense attorneys — exclusively uses peremptory strikes to remove African Americans or people of color from a court case.
Bates says she introduced SB 867 and SB 868 to help newspapers and freelance journalists continue to operate in California by exempting them from the state’s new anti-independent contracting law, AB 5.
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela have taken the Botswana-headquartered Choppies Enterprises, its distribution centre and Nanavac Investments to court demanding an outstanding US$44 million for their 51% shares in the company. BY SILAS NKALA The family held shares in the supermarket chain before it was pushed out in January last year. Through their lawyer Zibusiso Ncube, Mphoko and his son filed summons at the Bulawayo High Court seeking an order declaring their entitlement to payment of the true value of the 51% shares they held before being booted out. The Mphokos also claimed interest at the rate of 5% per annum from January 9, 2019, when they were unlawfully divested of their shareholding, to date of full payment. In their declaration of the claim, the Mphokos submitted that at all material time, they were the majority shareholders of Nanavac Investments, holding an aggregate of 51% shares. “First applicant (Siqokoqela) held 25,5% shares and second applicant (Phelekezela) held 25,5% shares in first defendant (Nanavac Investments), while the second defendant (Choppies Enterprises) held the remaining 49% of the first defendant (Nanavac Investments)’ shares,” reads the declaration. “In about 2018, a dispute arose between first applicant and second defendant resulting in the second and third defendants instituting legal proceedings against first plaintiff and his wife and the first defendant at the High Court. The second defendant instituted malicious and false criminal complaints to the police, resulting in the institution of magistrates’ court proceedings against the first plaintiff and his wife.” They said the proceedings resulted in their arrest and detention and on January 9 in order to secure freedom, the Mphokos signed a deed of settlement with Choppies Enterprises in terms of which they disposed of their shareholding in Nanavac Investments to Choppies Enterprises. “The deed of settlement between the parties provided that the two plaintiffs were to be paid US$2,9 million by second defendant for the acquisition of plaintiffs’ full rights and title to the first defendant’s shareholding,” they said. “The payment of first applicant’s salary which was due from first defendant had been unlawfully stopped and threats of foreclosure on a mortgage bond in which first applicant had acquired funds from a local bank which the plaintiff could only service if he was not in detention and was receiving his salary from first defendant, the second plaintiff made him sign the deed of settlement in fear of the continued persecution of his son and his daughter in law by second defendant.” The Mphokos said the unlawful deed of settlement understated value of the shareholding they owned in that US$2,9 million offered for the shares constituted about 7% as opposed to 51% of the value of the shares in Nanavac Investments, which was given as US$44 million at the Botswana Stock Exchange. “The second defendant paid the sum of US$2,9 million in local currency, where shareholding was purportedly being acquired
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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today Inc. by David Comissiong I would like to respond to Ms Hyacinth Greenidge’s recent letter to the editor titled “Is this the same Mark Maloney?” I would like to inform Ms Greenidge […]
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Teairra Mari and her financial specialist boyfriend Nino are still going strong, but followers did not want to see Marie too happy without reminding her […]
Angela Yvonne Davis is a political activist, author, teacher and feminist. She was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her neighborhood was known for racial tensions and conflict, and Davis attended an all black elementary school. Her mother was an active member and organizer of the Southern Negro Congress, which had strong communist ties. This shaped and developed Davis’s interests as an adult. In high school, she was accepted by American Friends Service Committee program, which placed black students in racially integrated schools. She went to Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York City. Here she learned more about socialism and communism and joined a Communist Youth Group. She also met her close friend Bettina Aptheker there, who was also a feminist and social activist.
After winning a scholarship to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, Davis enrolled there as one of its only three black students in her year. She studied philosophy with the German philosopher Herbert Marcuse. She graduated with highest honors in 1965 and then joined the University of Frankfurt in Germany for graduate work in philosophy. She moved in with a German family and lived on a stipend of $100 a month. She studied there for a time and then returned to the U.S. to study at the University of California, San Diego. Here she earned a Masters Degree, and then a doctorate in philosophy from Humboldt University in East Berlin.
She was associated with a radical group called the Black Panther Party. She also worked as an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning $10,000 a year. However, the board and governors were concerned with her radical associations and fired her from her job. She filed a court case and was subsequently reinstated to her position. In 1970, she was again fired for using “inflammatory language” and this time it was for good.
Davis was a strong supporter of three prison inmates of Soledad Prison who came to be known as the Soledad brothers. These three men were John W.
The recent accreditation of the Government Analyst Food & Drugs Department (GA-FDD) as a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) to the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) 17020 and 17025 standards could mark a “game-changing development” for the productive sector in Guyana since the accreditation now equips the country to make critical and internationally recognised standards assessments of some types of local goods being produced here and targeting international markets.
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Second, his arrest revisits the contested success of transitional justice in Rwanda, and showcases the mixed record of international justice more generally.
In Kabuga's case, the capture was made possible by the investigative work of a special French office that pursues violators of international criminal law.
In the case of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, \"reconciliation\" was embedded in the UN Resolution setting it up.
One of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda's biggest failures was arguably its inability to challenge Kagame's ethnically divisive narrative.
Insistence on rule of law norms
In the wake of Kabuga's arrest, some international criminal justice scholars have supported Rwanda's call to have him tried in the country, instead of sending him to the tribunal in Arusha.
'Bad Boy Billionaires,' arecent Netflix web-series on one of the biggest corporate scams in India, released on Oct. 5. The documentary has shifted the spotlight on real-life characters belonging to the country's corporate elite and [...]
Move One Million’s main aim was to hand over a memorandum to remind government of the rights of all South Africans.
Former NFL star, Dana Stubblefield, has been sentenced to 15 years to life for raping a prospective babysitter. Stubblefield, who... View Article
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In a major statement on the political situation here, United Nations (UN) Resident Co-ordinator Mikiko Tanaka today said that given the slim margin in the legislature between the two sides, parliamentary decision-making should entail consensus building and compromise so as to be inclusive of all sides.
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The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday donated 2,000 medical masks to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to aid in the protection of ranks as they perform their duties during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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Provocateurs! Exposing racism, promoting racism
Even I, an untrained political analyst or hardly a trained qualified historian, would know that a very limited Op-Ed piece such as this would do no justice to even attempt a history, development and status of Guyana’s two political behemoths - the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress (PNC).
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One presidential candidate wants to Keep America Great; the other wants to Build Back Better. But what are the candidates' key policies?
The National COVID-19 Task Force Secretariat (NCTFS) is still to grant permission to the management of MovieTowne Guyana to launch its drive-in film screenings, which was due to begin today.
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