DARREN Wade, 25, of Lichfield, West Coast Berbice was last Friday admitted to the Bar by Chief Justice Ian Chang after his petition was put forward by Senior Counsel Robin Stoby.The proceedings took place in the Chambers of the Chief Justice and were witnessed by relatives and close friends of Wade, who always dreamed of becoming a lawyer.

Together with three other siblings, Wade was brought up by his great grandmother and did odd jobs to support his school needs.
According to Wade, he was also assisted by many generous persons throughout his school life and at one time he even washed a minibus daily before school so he could have pocket money.
“It was because of the faith and prayers of many that I made it thus far. I remember when I was at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court, just prior to pursuing my studies at the University of Guyana, knowing very well that I was impecunious and had no other source of income, I looked up to the heavens and I said ‘God please don’t let me regret leaving this job.
“The day when I arrived onto the University of Guyana Campus I looked up to the heavens and I said ‘God take charge’. I did the same when I arrived at the Hugh Wooding Law School campus.”
There were many who congratulated him and made it clear that “the real work has now begun.”
He expressed gratitude to many for assisting him along the way including those within the legal fraternity. He described the many persons as the ‘giants’ in his life on whose shoulders he stood in order to be prepared for the road ahead.
Those included his great grandmother, grandfather, siblings, girlfriend, aunts, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Justice Claudette Singh, the late Bishop Jerome Cornell Moss, whose wife travelled all the way from the Bahamas to celebrate the moment with the young man, Dr. Paloma Mohamed, who cried almost throughout proceedings, Mr. Vincent Alexander, and the late Mr. Sheldon Mc Donald, former Head of the Department of Law at the University of Guyana, who passed on just a couple of days ago following a traffic accident, as well as the Region 6 Chairman, his wife and and son.
“I have so much to be thankful for, my ‘giants’ have been so many, and it would take me forever to thank them all. But I have a lifetime to express my gratitude and I will surely do so.