Fmr Home Affairs Minister Justice Stanley Moore passes

Senior Counsel Stanley Alfred Moore, who celebrated his fifty-second year in the legal profession last year, passed away at his Kitty, Georgetown home on Friday. He was 87 years old.
Moore was born on July 1, 1935 to Olive Isabella Walcott-Moore and Llewellyn Cornett Moore.
This legal luminary was called to the Bar on July 26, 1970. He was awarded a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws from the University of London, and was admitted to Guyana’s Inner Bar as a Senior Counsel in 2020.
At the time of his passing, he was a partner at the well-known law firm of McKay and Moore of Lot 1 Croal Street, Georgetown, and had practised criminal and civil law.
Moore has left an indelible mark on the jurisprudence of Guyana, Grenada, Montserrat, The Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, Botswana, and Swaziland.
Moore, who was appointed an acting High Court Judge in 1979, served as Guyana’s Home Affairs Minister under the Linden Forbes Burnham Administration, and as a Member of Parliament from 1981 to 1982.
At home, he also served as an acting magistrate. He also served as Attorney General in Montserrat and as a Judge in several Caribbean states.
Following his retirement, he was appointed a Judge in Botswana and Swaziland, before returning home in 2016 to continue his private practice. Moore has achieved many notable successes in his career, and despite his age, he still attended court to remain active.
He is the father of Senior Magistrate Alex Moore. This distinguished jurist leaves to mourn his wife Cheryl Moore, an airline pilot, and his children, relatives, colleagues and friends.