(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on Wednesday said that it has written to the CARICOM Secretary-General, the Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government, and the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC), demanding an internal investigation into a leadership crisis engulfing the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

The letters, dispatched on Wednesday, follow days of regional fallout after leaked internal correspondence revealed that five of the CCJ’s six sitting judges had turned on Court President Justice Winston Anderson, accusing him of authoritarian leadership, interference in case outcomes, and manipulation of judicial panel assignments.

The falling-out traces back to an administrative matter. According to reporting by Trinidad’s Sunday Express, the dispute ignited on June 22, 2026, when Justice Anderson — a Jamaican jurist sworn in as CCJ president on July 6, 2025 — circulated an email to fellow judges proposing a judicial dress code. What began as a request for clarification about the RJLSC’s authority to impose such a policy escalated rapidly into a broader indictment of his management style, with one judge warning of what was described as creeping anti-democratic patterns, and another cautioning that discontent within the court could reach a breaking point.