Jagdeo says hopes judge’s...

speaks to the provision of an acceptable list as discussed earlier. If by not choosing any of the persons listed the President thereby finds the list unacceptable, the proviso to art 161(2) would apply and the President should then go on to appoint a judge or former judge or person who would qualify for appointment as a judge in Guyana or the Commonwealth to the post of Chairman of GECOM”, Justice George-Wiltshire said in the written version which was seen by Stabroek News.

Jagdeo told reporters that the CJ later noted that that is an academic point because other lists have been requested. He opined that this position could influence the choice of a Chairperson in the future. “So in the future, if this ruling is there the president can say `send me a list of six names’ and he then says `I don’t find any person acceptable I am moving on to make my own appointment’”, he said.

Jagdeo said that he is hoping that Granger reads the ruling carefully and that “his advisors will now guide him accordingly …and I hope he understands now that the interpretation that he had, that all of the persons have to be acceptable to him before he contemplates choosing someone that interpretation is now untenable in the face of the ruling from the Chief Justice “.

At present Granger is on official business in Switzerland having just left the United States where he attended the 72nd Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly.