To date the PPP government of Guyana or President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Winston Anderson, have not explained Justice Anderson’s role in the unjust and unceremonious dismissal of Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana, Justice Yonette Cummings, without cause, although called upon to do so.
The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) is aware that the President Irfaan Ali used Justice Anderson as his chief negotiator, essentially a water-boy, in his ethnic supremacist quest to remove Justice Cummings from her position last week.
The PPP government did not want African Guyanese occupying all three senior positions in Guyana’s Judiciary, namely Chancellor (head of the Judiciary), Chief Justice and Chief Magistrate. Currently, all three offices are occupied by African Guyanese women who are acting, because the government has refused to confirm them in their current roles, owing to their race.
The PPP government used Justice Anderson, who should be an impartial Judge of the CCJ, our nation’s highest court of Appeal, to coercively negotiate with Justice Cummings to leave the Judiciary at the level of acting Chancellor and receive a retirement package as Chancellor, or revert to the Court of Appeal as an ordinary Justice of Appeal. This is a deeply shocking interference in the Judiciary by the regime that was expressly designed to exercise political control of the Judiciary. It is unacceptable and unlawful. Justice Anderson’s involvement is disgraceful!
CGID has cogent and irrefutable evidence of Justice Anderson’s role in this saga, including potential digital evidence, and will not allow his ostensible, unethical involvement in helping to carry out the PPP’s unjust lynching of Justice Cummings, a Black woman, to be swept under the proverbial rug.
We are aware that Justice Anderson involved himself in the discussion about a plot to remove Justice Cummings when he visited Guyana for the swearing in of Justice Arif Bulkan as a Justice of the CCJ, on October 16, 2025, and he left Guyana thereafter.
Justice Cummings was on accumulated annual leave from July 16, 2025 to October 15, 2025. When she resumed duties on October 15, 2025, President Ali attempted to embarrass her by refusing to allow her to resume duties as Chancellor. He directed acting Chief Justice Roxanne George, who was performing the duties of Chancellor in Justice Cummings’ absence to continue in the office of Chancellor without communicating that to Justice Cummings.
This action was widely condemned on social media, prompting the PPP government to return Justice Anderson to Guyana to help them convince Justice Cummings to demit office. Justice Anderson stayed at the Georgetown Marriott Hotel and engaged in subtle diplomacy and coercion which culminated in the Chancellor’s removal and into forced early retirement. Justice Anderson also allegedly engaged the Opposition Leader of Guyana and attempted to convince him to accept the President’s decision. We understand that the Opposition Leader rejected the President’s decision.
Justice Cummings served in the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for twelve years from 1988 to 2000, rising to the level of acting DPP. She then served as a Supreme Court Judge for eight years from 2000 to 2008. She became a Justice of Appeal in 2008 and served on the Court of Appeal until 2015, when she was appointed acting Chief Justice.
Justice Cummings became acting Chancellor in 2017 and served in that capacity until she was unceremoniously and unjustly removed on October 15, 2025. She has two National Awards for her outstanding contribution to the justice system in Guyana, the “Cassique Crown of Honour, Guyana’s third-highest national award, and the Order of Roraima (OR), Guyana’s second-highest national award. She is an honorable woman with impeccable integrity. She deserves to be treated better – with respect and dignity.
This is a lynching of a Black woman by the callous, racist, PPP ethnocracy. To avoid accusations of racism, the leadership of the PPP regime always finds someone of African descent to carry out their dirty work and sinister machinations to absolve themselves from accusations of racism. Justice Anderson was their waterboy in this instance.
We are also aware of a similar plot to remove Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty, and supersede her with Magistrate Judy Latchman. Magistrate Latchman is Junior to Magistrate Faith McGusty. She is also less qualified and has far less experience than Faith McGusty. Under the PPP regime, ethnic supremacy takes precedence over qualifications and experience.
CGID reiterates its call for a justification for Justice Anderson’s role in the nefarious scheme to remove Justice Cummings as Chancellor without cause. This controversy may end up at the CCJ. Justice Anderson’s alleged corrupt, unethical conduct gravely undermines confidence in the impartiality of the CCJ.
