GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—Attorney General Anil Nandlall says a feasibility study is almost complete regarding the establishment of a local law school, allowing the project to move forward.
According to Nandlall, for years, Guyana has been after the establishment of a local law school, and the country’s feasibility study is a protracted and time-consuming one because a lot of information must be amassed for the Council of Legal Education.
“I believe we are nearing completion of that feasibility study,” Nandlall said during his weekly ‘Issues in the News’ program.
The Government of Guyana had set up a committee to establish this school specifically. Nandlall chairs that committee.
In addition, about five acres of land have already been identified in Turkeyen, next to the University of Guyana, for constructing the regionally accredited law school under the auspices of the Council of Legal Education.
Through a new development model, the government will provide the land and building resources to construct the facility. At the same time, the Council of Legal Education would manage the institution and its students.
Nandlall noted that the government is serious about getting a law school in Guyana so that students can benefit from such a venture.
Guyana has been trying to establish a law school within its jurisdiction for nearly three decades.
This initiative merges with the government’s commitment to promote Guyana as an attractive offshore education destination. The proposed law school is expected to attract students from across the region. It will ease the overloading currently obtained, particularly at Hugh Wooding and Norman Manley Law Schools.
Guyana only allows 25 students to enter the law program at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago instead of the twin-island republic and Jamaica, which churn out hundreds of students yearly.
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