Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform Aubrey Norton has accused Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira of dissembling in her remarks to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding substantive appointments of Guyana’s Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice.
On Thursday last, Norton, at his party’s press conference, noted that the Opposition not only agreed to the substantive appointments of Justice Roxane George as Chief Justice and Justice Yonette Cummings as Chancellor of the Judiciary, but also wrote to President Irfaan Ali requesting a meeting to consider these appointments.
Teixeira, who is also responsible for parliamentary affairs, was on Tuesday pressed to provide answers on the independence of the judiciary and specifically the reason this country for well over a decade now, continues to be without a substantive Chancellor and Chief Justice.