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The Guyana government should heed Mr. Pollard’s advice on law students
Dear Editor,
I wish to extend sincere thanks and appreciation to my learned friend, Brynnmor Pollard, (SC),for the excellent letter which was published in Sunday’s issue. He did not only
give a brief historical background of the Council of Legal Education and the law schools, but outlined
three ways in which the law students plight can be addressed. He eliminated the first – that Guyana should have its own law school, but said that the second and third should be seriously considered.
The second is for Guyana to exercise some financial discipline; that the government provide the nucleus of a fund of foreign currency and to return to the fold of the UWI degree a Cave Hill by resuming the economic cost or thirdly to press Caricom Heads to expand the law schools of the region, particularly the Hugh Wooding Law School.
I will advocate for the third : the expansion of the Hugh Wooding Law School to accommodate more students.
Professor Stephen Vascianne, while serving as Principal of the Norman Manley Law School School (NMLS) in 2010, despite strenuous opposition, worked feverishly with the Jamaica Government to expand the NMLS so that more students could be admitted. He even reconstructed lecture rooms to accommodate more students and launched a pilot project for an evening steam where 50 more students could be accommodated in the evening.
I supported Professor Vascianne in his move while I served as Belize’s representative of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) when the issue was raised. There is still overcrowding at the HWLS and Belize law students still encounter difficulties to gain entry.
The Guyana government should heed the advice of Mr. Pollard, former chief legal draftsman of the Guyana Government as well as former Legal Consultant of the Caricom Secretariat who is very experienced in the legal field and one of the architects of the CLE. The regime should not only be sympathetic to the law students who seek to conclude their legal education, but also recognize that there is a mad rush for Guyanese and other Caribbean nationals who wish to enter the legal profession.
Oscar Ramjeet
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