Data Protection Bill gets parliament’s approval

As the Data Protection Bill was read in Parliament on Thursday morning, members of the National Assembly heard that it had been endorsed by both a foreign expert and Guyana’s Law Reform Commission.

Bartlett Morgan, a lawyer from Barbados and a well-known expert in the area of data protection, was quoted as saying: “Guyana’s new Data Protection Bill is impressive. It is probably the most advanced and at the same time fit-for-purpose privacy law that I have seen emerging from the Caribbean region to date. While there is some room for fair criticism, there is a lot to be pleased about in the direction of the draft law. The drafters have clearly assessed prior efforts of other countries in the region and further afield and sought to strike a fair balance between competing interests of data subjects and data controllers”.