{"id":20997,"date":"2024-07-02T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20997"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:02:28","slug":"appointment-of-ten-new-puisne-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/appointment-of-ten-new-puisne-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ten New Puisne Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>by Josiah Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Guyana&#8217;s judiciary received a significant enhancement with the swearing-in of ten new Puisne judges at the Office of the President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali announced that these appointments were made following a rigorous selection process by the Judicial Service Commission, which evaluated 37 applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly appointed judges include Nicola Pierre, Joy Persaud-Singh, Hessaun Yasin, Deborah Kumae-Chetty, Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, Nigel Niles, Peter Hugh, Jacqueline Josiah-Graham, Priscilla Chandra-Hanif, and Zamilla Ally-Seepaul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali highlighted that eight out of the ten appointees are women, underscoring Guyana&#8217;s significant participation of women judges on a global scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He commended their commitment to upholding justice with integrity, noting that their decisions set important legal precedents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These appointments follow a series of judicial appointments this year, including magistrates, Justices of Appeal, and Commissioners of Title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has also increased investments aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the judiciary in delivering justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Josiah Williams Today, Guyana&#8217;s judiciary received a significant enhancement with the swearing-in of ten new Puisne judges at the Office of the President. President Dr. Irfaan Ali announced that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20999,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions\/20999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}