Aug 19, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Kaieteur News – Some persons have pounced upon an internal controversy within the Caribbean Court of Justice and the subsequent disclosure that the President of the Court, Justice Winston Anderson had become involved in trying to resolve Guyana’s long-running judicial impasse over the appointment of a substantive Chancellor and Chief Justice. These critics have been behaving as though the revelation of this involvement is itself evidence of wrongdoing.

The issue concerns the failure, for more than two decades, to appoint substantive holders of Guyana’s two highest judicial offices, the Chancellor and the Chief Justice. The position of Chancellor and Chief had for many decades been occupied by successive acting office-holders.