Plans to bring into being a local law school are still ongoing. Just this past week discussions in this regard were held between Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Mr. Basil Williams S.C. M.P. and the Task Force set up to chart the way forward.
The law school proposed for establishment will be the Joseph Haynes Law School of the Americas.
At the recent meeting the stakeholders met to examine the provisions in the Revised Business Plan of the University College of the Caribbean (UCC), one of the Jamaican Partners in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) intended to establish the Law School.
The Business Plan was submitted on the heels of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entered into between the University College of the Caribbean (UCC), Law College of the Americas (LCA) and the Government of Guyana which contained a provision for a feasibility study to be done to determine the viability of establishing the Law School.
The Task Force is expected to submit a response to the proposals in the Business Plan. Added to this, the Task Force will be tasked submit counter proposals to the Joint Venture Partners.
The members of the Task Force in the recent meeting were: Professor Harold Lutchman, Professor Rudolph James, Justice James Patterson, Justice Claudette Singh S.C., Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana Dr. Barbara Reynolds, Economist Dr. Morris Odle, Chartered Accountant Mr. Christopher Ram, Law Revision Consultant Justice Abdullahi Zuru and Solicitor-General Ms. Kim Kyte.