Georgetown : Mr. Basil Williams was privileged to begin his Public Service career as a young lawyer and as one of the Legal Advisors of the late Founder Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC). Later, he was to become Legal Assistant to then President Hoyte, from 1985-1988. While in the Office of the President, he became intimately familiar with the politics of the PNC and the machinery of the Party. He did go on to become a Vice-Chairman of the Party and a member of the Central Executive Committee. Mr. Williams is also Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Party and was a member of the Joint Task Force on Local Government Reform. Mr. Williams holds an LLB (Hons.) Degree from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus and a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago.He has served in different capacities in the public domain, including representing Guyana at the 6th Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in 1985; City Councillor from 1986-1988 and Secretary of the Review Committee of the Companies Act, 1986-1988. Mr. Williams entered Parliament in 2003 and served in the Tenth Parliament of Guyana as APNU’s Shadow Minister of Legal Affairs and Justice.
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