Academics Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles and Dr Ronnie Yearwood see the resort to the courts to resolve political grievances stemming from last year’s elections impasse here as being representative of a trend towards the “judicialization of politics” in the Commonwealth Carib-bean.
“The courts [are] getting more and more involved in politics,” Barrow-Giles said on Thursday evening, while singling out Guyana specifically, but also making reference to a few other Caribbean territories.
Barrow-Giles, a political scientist who led the team that observed the recount of votes here last year, was at the time making a presentation on a research paper she has authored with Dr. Yearwood, an attorney and law lecturer, on “the Judiciary and the 2020 Guyana Elections.”
