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Double Day hotel owner moves to court to challenge travel ban
(Kaieteur News) –Lawyers for Bhojnarine Bhola, the owner of Double Day Hotel where 11-year-old Adriana Younge went missing and was subsequently found dead in the pool – have moved to the Demerara High Court seeking to overturn the “unlawful” and arbitrary decision by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to impose a travel restriction on him.
The fixed date application, filed on December 5 by attorneys Sanjeev J. Datadin, Khalif A. Gobin and Mohanie Anganoo, lists Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken and the Attorney General Anil Nandlall, S.C as respondents.
Bhojnarine Bhola, the owner of Double Day Hotel
Bhola’s lawyers are asking the court for an Order of Certiorari to quash the Commissioner’s “decision and or continuing act of restricting or preventing the Applicant from leaving the jurisdiction on the grounds that this continuing restriction or prevention is unconstitutional, unfair, contrary to the principles of natural justice, made arbitrarily and without reason.”
The lawyers are also seeking an Order of Mandamus compelling the Commissioner to lift and remove any and all travel restriction, stop order, watchlist entry, blacklisting or similar restraint relating to their client and to notify all relevant ports of exit and entry accordingly.
Adriana Younge
The application further asks the court to declare that the Commissioner acted without lawful authority, that the restriction is ultra vires, and that it unjustifiably infringes Bhola’s constitutional right to freedom of movement under Article 148.
According to the grounds laid out in the filing, Bhola the owner of the Double Day Hotel was taken into police custody on April 24, 2025 after Younge was reported missing and later found dead in the hotel’s pool. Younge, a resident of Hyde Park, Parika, was discovered in the pool of the Double Day Hotel in Tuschen, Essequibo Coast, on the morning of April 24, 2025, nearly 20 hours after she was reported missing. She was last seen by her grandmother around 13:01hrs on April 23 while swimming in the hotel’s pool.
The document details his detention at the Leonora and Parfaite Harmonie Police Stations, including that he was booked on an allegation of murder, stripped of his clothing in the lockups, and kept in custody until April 29, when he was released on the condition that he not leave the jurisdiction.
The application outlines that upon Bhola’s release he discovered his hotel, home and several vehicles had been burnt, leaving him homeless. He says he complied fully with investigators and submitted DNA samples.
The application references an article that Bhola had to report to the police on daily and not able to leave country. It also cites a May 27 GPF press release titled “Pathologists who conducted autopsy find ‘No signs of foul play’ in drowning of 11-year-old Adriana Younge,” and a May 31 article stating that a Canadian review found no foul play and pointed to poor pool checks.
“The Guyana Police Force have concluded their investigations and found that there was no evidence of foul play in the death of Adriana Younge. Upon completion of the investigation, the Applicant was not charged but was informed that he still cannot leave the jurisdiction. This restriction on the Applicant is unlawful, contrary to his freedom of movement, unnecessary and untenable,” Bhola’s lawyers noted.
It further states that his father, who resides in Canada, has been diagnosed with terminal multiple myeloma, and Bhola, “is desirous of travelling to meet with his father in these last moments of his life but is unable to do so due to the decision and or continuing actions of the First-named Respondent.”
Moreover, it was also disclosed that on November 13, his attorneys wrote to both respondents seeking confirmation on whether the restriction had been lifted, but no response has been received.
The application argues, “There are no statutory time limits which operate as a bar to these proceedings.”
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