Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday said the Ministry of the Presidency’s intervention with the post office over stamps to commemorate the centennial birth anniversary of former President Cheddi Jagan was unlawful.
The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc (CJRCI) had contracted with the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) to produce the stamps for Thursday’s anniversary. However the stamps were not produced and on Friday the Ministry of the Presidency reported President David Granger as saying that Cabinet has taken a decision that commemorative stamps, must adhere to national criteria. He added that such symbols must not be used for private, partisan or political messages, but ought to be used for national purposes.
In a statement yesterday, Nandlall argued that the GPOC is a statutory body corporate managed by a Board of Directors and possesses its own persona. He said it is not a department of the Government but an agency of the state.
