Guyana
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- Parliamentary Republic
- CONSTITUTION
- October 6, 1980
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- is based on English law with references to Roman-Dutch law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court of Justice with final appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice
RELIGIONS
50% Christians, 28% Hindus, 7% Muslims, other
From the country
- NOVEMBER 30, 2001GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International welcomed the unanimous verdict...
Amnesty International welcomed the unanimous verdict returned on 27 November 2001 by an inquest jury that the Guyana police should be held criminally responsible for the death of Mohammed Shafeek, a 47-year old fish-seller, in Brickdam police lock-up betw
- AUGUST 30, 2001GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International (AI) sent an open letter to the...
Amnesty International (AI) sent an open letter to the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, about the mid-August shooting to death of a father and his son and his nephew
- JULY 26, 2001GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
The opposition People's National Congress said it would...
The opposition People's National Congress said it would organise protest marches against what it termed "extra-judicial killings" by the Guyana Special Target Squad
- FEBRUARY 14, 2001GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Guyana signed an agreement during the opening of the...
Guyana signed an agreement during the opening of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) leaders' 12th inter-sessional summit to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)
- JANUARY 1, 2001GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Guyana is a British Independent territory that retains...
Guyana is a British Independent territory that retains the death penalty but has relinquished the link with the Judicial Commission of the Privy Council
- MAY 17, 2000GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Roman Catholic bishops from the Caribbean said they...
Roman Catholic bishops from the Caribbean said they want the death penalty to be abolished despite strong support for the measure in some countries
- JANUARY 1, 2000GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Guyana is a British Independent territory that retains...
Guyana is a British Independent territory that retains the death penalty but has relinquished the link with the Judicial Commission of the Privy Council
- OCTOBER 18, 1999GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
On October 18, Justice Winston Moore ruled that he...
On October 18, Justice Winston Moore ruled that he found no merit in the case brought by convicted killers Abdool Saleem Yasseen and Noel Thomas
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Noel Thomas and Abdool Saleem Yassin convicted of killing...
Noel Thomas and Abdool Saleem Yassin convicted of killing Yassin's younger brother Abdool Kaleem Yassin in March 1987 in western Essequibo County, had death warrants read to them on September 7 and were scheduled to hang early on September 11, but a team
- JULY 22, 1999GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Guyana signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Guyana signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- APRIL 9, 1999GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
On April 9, Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon said that...
On April 9, Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon said that now the way is clear for the country to carry out capital punishment because it is no longer part of the UN Human Rights Committee
- JANUARY 5, 1999GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
On January 5, in a letter to the UN Secretary-General,...
On January 5, in a letter to the UN Secretary-General, the Guyana Government denounced the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights