Compensation for the victims of the MV Barima is already being discussed and figures are being mentioned. In principle, persons who are injured or suffer loss of life or property by the wrongful act of another, who has a duty to take care, is legally entitled to compensation. Many factors are required to be taken […]
Author Archives: Ralph Ramkarran
I have posted two articles in the past calling for the confirmation of the acting appointments of the Chancellor and Chief Justice. That was a time when the Government did not favour the holder of at least one of the acting appointees. I was in good company. In an earlier era, when the acting appointees […]
Disagreements among the Judges of the CCJ, Guyana’s final appellate court, recently exploded in leaked emails in the Trinidad press. Dismay and consternation greeted the expressions of discord. After the publication of the statement of the President of the Court, Justice Winston Anderson, it has become clear that the information disclosed in the emails was […]
The sinking of the MV Barima remains one of the most heartbreaking tragedies in Guyana’s history. Beyond the statistics of lives lost in the disaster, there is the enduring pain of those families whose loved ones have not yet been recovered, some of whom may still remain inside the sunken vessel. Considerations of the financial cost or […]
“I know my baby is in that boat,” Samantha Ramin told reporters at Charity during last week, where families have gathered since last Sunday awaiting news of loved ones. The body of her young daughter has been recovered. Her baby son is still missing. The M.V. Barima, which departed Georgetown for Port Kaituma on Saturday […]
