‘Law school coming to Guyana’

Sep 08, 2025 News

…President announces approval granted for Guyana to set up law school

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali announced on Sunday that work will begin immediately to establish Guyana’s very own law school with approval being granted by the Council of Legal Education.

President Irfaan Ali

He was at the time making his first address to the nation after being sworn in as the ninth executive president of Guyana, following a declaration of the results by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Saturday evening.

Ali told a gathering on the lawns of state house of mostly party supporters that his government will be able to commence the work “…based on the recent approval granted by the Council for Legal Education…”

He said with the setting of the school, hundreds of persons will be able to get qualified as attorneys-at-law “right here in country and they will be having the full rights to practice in CARICOM countries as well.”

In November of last year, the Kaieteur News had reported that government was still awaiting the approval of the Council of Legal Education of the West Indies (CLE) to establish the nation’s first law school. At the time Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, SC, in an invited comment to Kaieteur News, confirmed that the process to establish a law school in Guyana was ongoing, although permission was granted by the council for a feasibility study and other ground work to be done.

Initially, the Government of Guyana had set up a committee to deal specifically with the establishment of this school. That committee is chaired by Nandlall and during an engagement in Jamaica last year the AG said he updated the council on the progress Guyana was making towards ensuring the approval is granted.

The feasibility study was handed over to the Council for Legal Education (CLE), a regional organisation which operates the Hugh Wooding Law School in the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica, and the Eugene Dupuch Law School in The Bahamas. Nandlall had said the report was handed over during a meeting of the CLE. Already more than five acres of land have already been identified at Turkeyen, next to the University of Guyana, for the construction of the law school.

Meanwhile, speaking during an episode of his weekly programme “Issues in the News”, the AG had noted the government had expressed its intentions to collaborate with stakeholders and implement initiatives to expand education opportunities in the legal field, even amidst the nation’s ongoing massive legal reform.

“We are passing too many important laws not to have continuing education. The legal profession is a noble and honourable profession, and I can’t imagine that they will reject the idea of continuing education,” asserted Nandlall.

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