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The hypocrisy is nauseating

May 03, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to an article published in the April 29 edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption “Lawyer disbarred in US gets top post in Guyana”. Reference was being made to Shaun Orville Allicock who was admitted to the Guyana Bar in 1998 and who was subsequently disbarred in the US in 1999.
This headline seemed designed to deceive the public into believing that the Government had committed a huge fraud. However, if you read the article you notice that no mention was made of the Guyana Bar Association.
I would like to draw the public’s attention to a reply by the Guyana Bar Association to a letter “Is the Bar association asleep?” published in the Stabroek News (07.11.25) by M.Y. Bacchus, in which the then President of the Guyana Bar Association, Mr. Kashir A. Khan in response wrote “In addition to its core responsibility of advancing the interests and development of lawyers, the legal profession and the practice of law in Guyana, the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) has also a broader mandate to speak to and advocate for issues which concern the society at large especially in areas that affect social justice and the rule of law in our society, a natural consequence of our professional remit”.
Yet a lawyer disbarred in the USA since 1999 is reported to be practicing in Guyana as a partner in a law firm and even managed to land himself a top post in a statuary body. Simply amazing! It appears that the Guyana Bar Association has been in a deep slumber longer than Rip-Van-Winkle and only woke up when Justice Rabi Sukul was appointed as a judge to the Guyana Court of Appeal.
I recall the loud condemnations by the Guyana Bar Association of Justice Rabi Sukul when the news of his disbarment hit Guyana. I recall weeks of coverage of this matter in the press. I waited patiently for a similar response in relation to Allicock. A week has passed since the disclosure in Kaieteur News. Not a word from the Bar Association and virtually no coverage by the other media houses. The hypocrisy is nauseating.
Faruk Mohamed

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