Newly appointed Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), retired Justice James Patterson yesterday clarified that he was never substantive Chief Justice of Grenada but had acted in the position for a short period of time, a fact he accidentally excluded from the Curriculum Vitae (CV) he had submitted to President David Granger.
“My resume which I fashioned having not done one for about 40 years omitted the acting. Well if that’s a source of bother to them (critics) and they know otherwise that’s no concern there, that’s a fact that they can’t raise”, the 84-year-old Patterson told reporters outside Parliament Buildings while acknowledging that the omission was an error on his part.
Patterson who is also a former High Court judge was sworn in on October 19, two and a half hours after Granger met with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to inform him of the rejection of the third list of candidates and his selection of Patterson.
