Transparency Institute Guyana Incorporated (TIGI) Presi-dent, Troy Thomas has called on President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to show maturity and to utilize compromise to bring an end to the current impasse regarding top appointments to the judiciary.
“If the president is not willing to do that and the leader of the opposition is not willing to do that, (then) neither of them are good politicians. That is plain as it is, if they are not willing to compromise at all”, he told the Sunday Stabroek in an interview on Friday.
Like many observers and members of civil society, he acknowledges that bringing an end to the non-appointment of a substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice is of utmost importance. More than a decade has passed since substantive appointments to these posts have been made.