Former Legal Affairs Minister Doodnauth Singh dies

doodsaGeorgetown: Former Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Doodnauth Singh passed away Wednesday evening.

Date of Birth – June 16, 1933

Home address – Lot 255 Forshaw Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, Guyana

Called to the Bar in England – December 1958

Admitted to Practice in Guyana – January 1959

Private Practice – January 1961 then joined the Attorney General's Chambers. He served as Legal Draftsman in the Attorney General's Chambers – Legal Council to Income Tax and Customs and Litigation Officer

Police Legal Adviser and Member of the DPP's Chambers

Returned to Private Practice in 1969

Practices in Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, Antigua and Dominica

Special Prosecutor against Patrick John, former Prime Minister and Members of the Dominican Defence Force, Treason and Murder

Special Prosecutor in Grenada against Bernard Court and others for the murder of Maurice Bishop, former Prime Minister and others

Appointed Senior Counsel in 1985, continued in private Practice until June 2001 then appointed Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs