LEGAL luminary and retired Justice, Senior Counsel Stanley Alfred Moore died on Friday at his Kitty, Georgetown home. He was 87 years old.

The retired judge joined the Bar Association on July 25, 1970.

His legal career goes beyond the Caribbean to the most distant lands of the African Continent, where he calls Botswana and Eswatini home.

Eswatini, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini, was formerly renamed Swaziland.

Attorney Moore was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice. He was married to Cheryl Moore and was the father of five children, one of whom has since passed away.

In 1979, he acted as a judge in Guyana, and in 1990, he was the Attorney General in Montserrat. Then, in 1992, he became a Supreme Court judge in the Eastern Caribbean, spending his first stint in Grenada until 1996, and the second in the British Virgin Islands until 2000. After that, he joined the Commonwealth Bahamas Supreme Court.

Moore was born on July 1, 1935 to Olive Isabella Walcott-Moore and Llewellyn Cornett Moore. At age two, the family relocated to Thomas Street, Kitty, Georgetown.
He also once served as a Minister of Home Affairs in Guyana.