Govt. receives 15 proposals for design, supervision services for law school

Jun 24, 2026 News

(Kaieteur News) – Fifteen consultancy firms have submitted technical and financial proposals for the design and supervision contracts for Guyana’s first law school, signaling strong professional interest in the Ministry of Legal Affairs’ project.

According to the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), firms that submitted proposals include E&A Consultants Inc., Sizwe Jackson Consultancy Service, Kalitech Inc., Caribbean Engineering & Management Consultants Inc., Skylines Architecture Inc., KS&P Limited, Acuitas Caribbean Guyana Inc., Innovative Engineering Consultancy Services, C.B & Associates Limited, Ai Architects, The Acacia Group, Automated Engineering Services, VIKAB Guyana Limited in association with VIKAB Engineering Consultants Limited, Jain Consultants Guyana Inc., RVS Structural Engineering, and SRKN’gineering & Associates Limited.

The Guyana Law School will be built at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus, on eight acres of land that Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, SC, confirmed has already been identified and cleared.

During the 2026 budget debates, Nandlall confirmed that funding has been secured for the project and that construction is expected to begin this year. The ministry received $1.8 billion from the national budget, with $100 million specifically allocated to cover the architectural design of the law school.

Speaking on his weekly programme, ‘Issues in the News’, the attorney general outlined the scope of the procurement process, stating that consultants will be tasked with preparing detailed structural designs and drawings, architectural drawings, design specifications, bills of quantities, engineer estimates, and bid documents in addition to providing supervision services throughout the construction phase.

Once established, the Guyana Law School will become the fourth in the Caribbean, joining the Hugh Wooding in Trinidad and Tobago, the Norman in Jamaica, and the Eugene Dupuch Law School in The Bahamas. It will operate under the Council of Legal Education (CLE).

The institution is expected to directly address longstanding barriers faced by Guyanese law graduates most notably, the limited placement quotas and the prohibitive cost of studying abroad. Currently, Guyana receives approximately 25 placements annually at the Hugh Wooding Law School, a figure widely regarded as insufficient given the country’s growing demand for legal professionals.

Upon completion, Guyanese students will be able to pursue their Legal Education Certificate (LEC) at home, eliminating the need to travel regionally for professional legal training.

Beyond its academic significance, Nandlall highlighted the broader economic opportunity the institution presents for Guyana.

“This is not only an academic institution, but it is an economic venture, because people of the Caribbean will come here. They will have to live; they will have to find accommodation. They will have to board, lodge and eat,” he said.

The project is therefore positioned not only as an investment in legal education, but as a catalyst for regional student inflows and the economic activity that accompanies them, further strengthening Guyana’s ambition to become a hub for Caribbean academic and professional development.

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