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 […]
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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 […]
Tradition in politics and governance in most developed political systems dictates that when a person is appointed to a position by political preference, that person is expected to resign when the appointor or recommender leaves office. This, of course, applies only to particular categories of offices such as ministers of government, members of boards and […]
The Property Tax Act in Guyana was passed in 1962 as part of the budget proposals of that year on which Nicolas Kaldor, a moderate social democratic Cambridge University economist, had advised. The proposals were the most revolutionary of the era, described as a genuine attempt to solve Guyana’s economic problems, but violently opposed by […]
125 YEARS One hundred years ago, on 5 September, 1926, an editorial in the New Daily Chronicle of 5 September 1926 stated: “For many years past Messrs. Cameron and Shepherd, of the City, have enjoyed the privilege of being regarded as the Colony’s leading firm of Solicitors: for very many years they have enjoyed the […]
