As part of the Government of Guyana’s quest to build capacity in order to effect and execute its planned law reform agenda, six State Counsel at the Ministry of Legal Affairs recently completed a training programme in the Consolidation of Laws.
According to a Ministry of Legal Affairs press release, the group, which represented the final batch trained in the Consolidation of Laws, was presented with their certificates by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Thursday.
The release informed that the training programme was conducted virtually earlier this year by the Regional Law Revision Centre Inc in Anguilla, under the auspices of Professor Velma Newton, CBE, SCM, the Regional Project Director of the Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT JUSTICE) Programme.
Those who received certificates were: Asasha Ramzan, Marnice O. Hestick, Janet A. Ali, Meenakshi Arti Outar, Debra Singh and Cheyenne Lall. Also present were State Counsel Dianne Woolford and Renee Sandiford, two members of the Law Revision Unit, Ministry of Legal Affairs, who were part of a previous batch that completed a similar training programme.
This is the latest of a series of initiatives of the Attorney General Chambers and the Ministry of Legal Affairs in building institutional capacity in preparation of transformational legal reforms as well as consolidation of the laws of Guyana. The Law Revision Unit will partner with the Law Reform Commission and other important stakeholder organisations to execute Guyana’s statutory agenda, the release added.
