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Guyana's Justice Arif Bulkan has been appointed to serve as a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice, the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC) announced on August 18
The RJLSC said Bulkan was selected from 26 applicants across 14 countries after a competitive process that shortlisted five candidates – three men and two women – for interviews. Applications were received from Australia, Barbados, Canada, Cameroon, Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, the United States and Trinidad and Tobago
The RJLSC said Bulkan has decades of legal experience across the Caribbean and internationally. He was admitted to the Guyana Bar in 1990, served in the Director of Public Prosecutions chambers, practised privately, and sat on the Court of Appeal of Guyana. Since 2022, he has been a judge on the Court of Appeal of Belize. He also taught at the University of the West Indies for 14 years and served as a vice chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
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