Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, in a release on Sunday, said the Council of Legal Education (CLE) of the West Indies, has considered Guyana’s request for the home-based law school.
Guyana’s case for the establishment of the school was supported by the Hon. Yonette Cummings-Edwards, OR, Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag) who represented the Judicature, and Attorneys-at-Law, Teni Housty and Kamal Ramkarran, both of whom represented the Guyana Bar Association.
If approved, the school would be the fourth to be operated by the CLE within CARICOM, and could support the other three in attracting students from home, across the region and further afield. The other three are the Hugh Wooding in Trinidad, Norman Manley in Jamaica, and Eugene Dupuch in The Bahamas
The government, in its request to the CLE, wants the school to be a Council’s institution, managed and administered by the CLE, but the Government of Guyana will provide the land and buildings as set out in the decision established by the council.
The CLE was created by a Treaty Agreement signed in 1971 by Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the University of the West Indies, and the University of Guyana.
