Asset recovery necessary in Guyana’s growing economy

- so too related legislative framework in order to seize assets that are proceeds

WITH Guyana's current economic growth, particularly in its burgeoning oil and gas sector, it is crucial for judicial officers to stay up to date with the latest best prac- tices on asset recovery and civil forfeiture to ensure proper adjudication of cases related to these matters.

This was according to Chancellor of the Judiciary,

Yonette Cummings-Edwards, who was addressing the opening of the two-day “Judicial Asset Recovery Conference” at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown on Monday.

“We were told growing up that crime does not pay and the proceeds of crime, the ill-gotten gains, are only for a time. And this is so because the state and the law-enforcement agen-