AG Anil Nandlall hails Chris Ram

AG Anil Nandlall hails Chris Ram

OPINION BY : GHK LALL– September 2026
I have always said that Guyana’s Hon Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, SC, MP, is capable of exceptional moments, actually has one of them, occasionally.  I wished there were more, especially given the caliber of this son of Guyana.  Separately, there’s a learning opportunity in Mr. Nandlall’s example for Excellency Ali.  Yeah, I should know better: water on duck’s back.

Attorney Chris Ram AG Anil Nandlall

Mr. Nandlall picked as fine a spot as he could.  A public tribute, a powerful and persuasive word of thanks for Chartered Accountant and attorney-at-law, Chris Ram.  Apparently, Mr. Ram contributed heavily to the finalizing of the Law School now growing in Guyana. 

A monumental achievement, for this oil rich country; the best site for it to be located. 

If Mr. Nandlall would permit the courtesy, I extend my own appreciation for the herculean efforts that Ram put in, with backing from the attorney-general himself, to make the law school in Guyana progress from a vision to the edges of a visible entity.  Guyana owes Mr. Ram.  At least, prospective law students, domestic and abroad, should be aware of the pivotal role he played to make the regional law school possible in Guyana.

First, there was a committee.  It didn’t hold long, wasn’t up to the task, fell down on the job.  Then, there was a tag team of which the ubiquitous Chris Ram was one half.  It didn’t fare well, was soon consigned to the dustbin of history.  Inevitably, it came to that time: Ram & McRae selected, two illustrious Guyanese names, one lone Guyana Ranger.  An extraordinary fighter for a law school in Guyana.  An arduous, uphill, battle at the beginning and many points afterwards.  I’m sure that there were times when he felt like that fortuneless fellow from Greek mythology.  Remember Sisyphus; the man with the boulder that had to be pushed to the mountaintop, only when it reached near there, to tumble right down back on him.

The gods must have their fun.  It may be so, but there was still a job to be done.

My understanding is that the now embattled President of the CCJ, Justice Winston Anderson, was a source of strength during those dark, difficult, dismal times.  So, too, was Excellency Jacqueline Brown, who was astute and admirable in her backing for a regional law school, and for it to be in Guyana.  In life, too often the end product is seen, and the champion contributors given visibility and heralded.  Mr. Ram deserves every syllable of recognition and praise for his work.  So, also, the head of the CCJ and the indefatigable Ms. Brown.

It feels good to pen this public service circular.  Guyana is now the proud address of a regional school.  Ram is the recipient of encomia from a PPP Govt luminary.  Energy and excellence are hailed momentarily.  There’s no place for any enemy.  Manufactured or the result of a commitment to a certain quality of national duty.  May this warm moment be more than temporary.  It’s not that I trust in God more today (though I am just back from preaching in his house). 

It is that I believe that all could be well in Guyana, if only there is that honest effort to nurture what is best in ourselves, and then express it publicly.

I started with a bow to Anil Nandlall.  I close with a curtsy to him.  May there be more of this, when such is due.  May he use his high office, his good offices, to tame the beast that roams so unchecked in many a breast.  Then escape to wreak one carnage after another across this country.  I am hard pressed to see how anyone in Guyana could be so tight, so disturbed, as to think differently.  Thanks again to Messrs. Chris Ram and Anil Nandlall.