ON October 13, 2012 at the annual ‘Law Social’, the Head of Department of the Law Programme at the University of Guyana, Mr Sheldon Mc Donald, announced that the University of Guyana will be making representation for non-Guyanese law students, who would have done their LLB in Guyana, to be included as part of the 25 students that are allowed automatic entry into the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad.

The arrangement to have 25 Guyanese students automatically admitted into the law school was under the collaborative tripartite agreement Guyana has with the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Council of Legal Education.
The tripartite agreement comes to an end in November 2012, and is currently being renegotiated. On Monday, October 15, 2012, Mr. Mc Donald will be attending the renegotiation meeting during which he is expected to present UG’s proposal to include non-Guyanese nationals, who would have done the LLB programme at the University of Guyana, to be included as part of the 25 students.
Firstly, I write this letter to reject such proposal, as the University of Guyana did not see the need to consult with students on such proposal.
Secondly, why should non-Guyanese students benefit from that negotiation, which seeks to help Guyanese law students?
Prior to this agreement, Guyanese law students faced many hardships relating to acceptance into the Hugh Wooding Law school, and to now include foreigners into such an agreement would not only be putting Guyanese students at a disadvantage, but would be downright unfair.
I do hope that the Ministry of Education and the Attorney-General’s Chambers intervene in the UG proposal which seeks to disadvantage Guyanese law students.