THE late Professor Calvin Eversley, Esq., former Head of the Department of Law at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus, was Wednesday laid to rest following a moving thanksgiving service for his life, officiated by Reverend Oswald Barnes at the St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church on Cemetery Road in Georgetown.

The service was preceded by viewing of the body at the Merriman’s Funeral Home at Lime and Bent Streets earlier in the day.
Born on February 6, 1949, Professor Calvin Eversley was called to rest at age 63, on November 14, 2012, at the Dr. Balwant Singh Hospital at East Street, Georgetown, following a brief period of illness.
Among the many distinguished associates and family members paying tribute to his memory were Professor Harold Lutchman, who travelled from Jamaica specifically for the funeral; Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Guyana, Dr. Paloma Mohamed; Attorney-at-Law Christopher Ram, on behalf of the UG Department of Law; Professor Eversley’s daughter, Jasmin Eversley-Danso; and his son Calvin Eversley, a current UG Law student.
They all shared pleasant recollections of the wonderful person Professor Eversley had been, and the profound impact he had had on those whose lives he had touched.
One of the finest legal minds in Guyana and the Caribbean, Professor Eversley had enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the legal profession, serving both locally and internationally, having studied at the University of Guyana; the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados; Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago; and at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, from whence he graduated with the LL.M (Master at Laws) in 1984.
Professor Eversley leaves to mourn his widow, Mrs. Erma Eversley; eight children; eight siblings; eight grandchildren, and other relatives and friends.