Aug 17, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – I have heard about a hanging judge. From readings, I know about travelling judges. There’s familiarity with governing judges better known as Administrative Law Judges. Thanks to the leader of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Mr. Aubrey Norton, I now have my first exposure to an intruding judge. As I thank CCJ President Winston Anderson for his interests in Guyana’s business, and his helping hand, how did he find the time to get anything done at the CCJ? Something of quality. Sure, what he did was something of value. I can hear Guyanese-born Mark Holder crooning away. What I can’t understand is how a Jamaican-born judge allowed himself to get embroiled in Guyana’s never less than brutish affairs. In attempting to be a judge for all seasons, he should have remembered Sir Thomas Moore, the original man for all seasons. Look what happened to him.

It is said that no good deed goes unpunished. Now, Justice Anderson is hearing just that, as he is forced to relive his ill-advised foray into Guyana’s politics. There is the lash of disbelief. Surely, Justice Anderson is wise enough, had to know, that was a lose-lose proposition. For him. Without going into the details of Mr. Norton’s revelations (more expressive on this occasion), it seems that Justice Anderson took it upon himself, or was engaged by the PPP Govt, to function as a one-man Judicial Service Commission. Not in Jamaica where he was born. Not in Trinidad where he operates. But in Guyana, where he has little business. Or does he?