Amid objections from the opposition PPP/C, the government used its majority in the National Assembly on Thursday, to pass the Law Reform Commission Bill 2015 which seeks to establish a permanent Law Reform Commission to reform and modernise Guyana’s laws.
“The laws of Guyana are long overdue for review as the majority were inherited from our colonial masters and have not been subject to reform since their inheritance,” Attorney-General Basil Williams said as he piloted the bill through its stages. “Many are archaic and irrelevant to our society,” he asserted, while emphasising that a permanent Law Reform