No requirement in law for renaming of archives to be gazetted

Dr Walter Rodney

Government’s reason for WPA founder Dr Walter Rodney’s name being removed from the National Archives of Guyana building to correct the process by properly gazetteing the change is absurd and an excuse as there is no law which requires this, former PPP/C Attorney General Anil Nandlall says.

“The explanation proffered by Mr Joseph Harmon that the name was never gazetted by the PPP is simply preposterous as there is no such requirement in the laws of this country,” Nandlall told Stabroek News yesterday.

“The National Archives of Guyana remains the national archives of Guyana. The name Walter Rodney is just attached to it. It remains the nation’s archives,” he stressed.