Cheddi Jagan committee opposes AG’s application to change Red House order

The Cheddi Jagan Research Committee Inc. was yesterday granted 14 days to file an affidavit in answer to an application made by Attorney General Basil Williams, who is seeking to amend the Consent Order under which he had undertaken not to remove items from the premises of Red House.

The Committee, represented by attorney Anil Nandlall, was granted leave to file an answer after opposing the AG’s application at an in-chambers hearing before Chief Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards.

Williams was also granted fourteen days’ leave to file an affidavit in reply to Nandlall.

Nandlall’s responses are expected to be heard on March 8.

The order, to which the AG’s Chambers acceded by giving its consent, operated to freeze the government’s instruction that the High Street premises be vacated by the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Incorporated (CJRCI) as of December 31 last.

The substantive matter, in which the Research Committee is opposing eviction, is returnable for February 20, 2017.

The proceedings stem from President David Granger’s announcement that the lease held by the CJRCI to the heritage building would be revoked.

Nandlall, who is representing Chairman of the CJRCI, Hydar Ally, is challenging the alleged revocation of the lease.

The consent order seeks to restrain the Attorney General and every other officer of the state “from evicting or ejecting or in any way, or interfering with the peaceful and quiet occupation and possession of this building by the Cheddi Jagan Research Institute.”