“There was no negligence or abandonment of duty,” Joint Services attorney Selwyn Pieters said during his final submissions yesterday to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 3 prison unrest and deaths.
Pieters yesterday presented oral and written submissions on behalf of the Guyana Prison Service (GPS), bringing to an end the CoI’s public hearings. The Commission has until May 31 to submit the report of its findings to President David Granger.
In Pieters’ 97-page written submission, he stated, “In any event, the main issue is clear:
