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Opposition challenges local lawyers attached to Linden Inquiry

Sep 11, 2012 News

–    “ They are not associated with the adjudication process” – AG

“I don’t think that the opposition’s objection is deserving of a comment” said Attorney General Anil Nandlall who was asked about the appointment of two lawyers to serve within the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden shooting.
Last week APNU’s member of Parliament, Joseph Harmon, raised several issues about the appointment of  Euclin Gomes and Gamesh Hira, the two lawyers who would be tasked with gathering evidence and witnesses.
Nandlall told Kaieteur News that the two lawyers appointed are both professional people. According to the AG, the two are not at all associated with the adjudication of the inquiry.  The AG said that he would not go on further to comment on the issue.
According to Harmon the two lawyers are connected to the Attorney General. Harmon told Kaieteur News that their appointment represents some form of nepotism.
He added that there should have been some form of advertisement. He further told Kaieteur News that he does not know on what basis the two were appointed and whether they are component enough.
Harmon said that he did not know how the two were appointed and if the AG had anything to do with the appointment, but noted that the process should be reviewed.
On Wednesday four of the five commissioners Justice Lensley Wolfe O.J., Mr. K.D. Knight S.C and Ms. Dana Seetahal S.C along with Guyana’s former Court of Appeal Judge, Claudette Singh, CCH, were sworn in by the head of state Donald Ramotar.
Former Chancellor of the Judiciary and the current Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Cecil Kennard, was absent from the ceremony. He is expected to be sworn in upon his return to the jurisdiction from annual leave.
In August, the Government and the Opposition came to an agreement on a foreign component being added to the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden protest killings.   On July 18, last 24-year-old Shemroy Bouyea, 46-year-old Allan Lewis, and 17-year-old Ron Somerset were killed on the first day of a planned-five day protest by Lindeners.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, had disclosed that some $80M has been budgeted for the inquiry which is expected to last 30 days.

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