Justice and Guyana’s Courts

A brief visit to two of Georgetown’s Magistrates Courts was enough to re-trigger my years-long consideration of local administrators of legal justice in our homeland.

Over decades this working-people’s column, pondered upon such themes as “the supermarket and paraphernalia of justice” and about Guyana’s judiciary being “in a world of its own.”

I have always wondered why either the Attorney-General/Legal Affairs Minister or the Chancellor of the Judiciary never responds to those (past) US State Department Country Reports which would routinely- and annually – lambaste Guyana’s “justice system” as being understaffed, unreliable and