Government is set to soon commence engagement with Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo for the selection of a new Ombudsman, following the death of Justice Winston Moore last month.
“It requires a process of consultation… and we will engage in that process very soon. We have already started a process of looking at names and things like that,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon told Stabroek News, when asked for an update.
After this country had been without an Ombudsman for more than 10 years, Moore was selected and sworn in by former president Donald Ramotar on January 13, 2014. But Moore died last month, after battling with cancer for a while.
During his tenure, he had