Demerara Assizes Opens with 229 cases

Georgetown: The January 2018 Criminal Assizes in Demerara opened Tuesday with a total of 229 cases listed to be heard over the next three months.

This session will see Justice Navindra Singh, Justice James Bovell-Drakes and Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall presiding over the cases.

The Gaol delivery for the October 2017 Criminal Assizes was done by Justice James Bovell-Drakes on Tuesday, January 02, bringing to an end the last session of 2017.

During the October Criminal Assizes, Justice James Bovell-Drakes, Justice Brassington Reynolds and Justice Simone Morris- Ramlall sat.

The session commenced on October 03, 2017, with a total of 218 cases listed. Of that, 26 matters were disposed of with 20 receiving attention in the High Court and Six nolle prosequi (not prosecuted) by the Director of Public Prosecutions