Frederick Wills (Fred Wills) (deceased 1992) was the Foreign Affairs Minister of Guyana in the 1970s, a renowned Statesman, Lawyer, Cricket expert and Intellectual. Often cited for his intellectual and academic genius by oral stories from his fellow-Guyanese and globally.
Fred Wills studied law in England, at Kings College London University where he was awarded the Jelf Medal for his outstanding academic success as a law graduate. He was also bestowed the status the highest level of judges in England-Queens Counsel. He never practiced as a judge in England but chose to return to Guyana.
When he returned to Guyana he became famous for being one of the top legal minds in Guyana, whilst also contributing to developing the law and constitution in Guyana. When the Guyanese president Forbes Burnham came into power he appointed Wills as Justice Minister and later Foreign Affairs Minister. In that capacity Wills briefly presided over the United Nations Security Council and twice addressed the General Assembly, once on independence for East Timor and once on September 27, 1976, to promote a Third World debt moratorium:
The billions on this planet who live in the developing countries and whose existence is subjected to the constraints of the few who manipulate to their advantage the present-day economic system, have pinned their hopes on the modest programme put forward in Nairobi and elsewhere. Their determination is adamant, inexorable and relentless. The IMF and the Bretton Woods monetary system must give way to alternative structures such as the international development banks, which are not geared to the revival and reconstruction of Europe nor preferential arrangements for the developed market economies, but rather to the just distribution of the gains of an equitable global system....
Wills' government service ended in the late 1970s and he moved to the United States. There he became a Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey and an associate of Lyndon LaRouche, and was a founding board member of the Schiller Institute in 1984.
Fred Wills served as club captain for the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in Georgetown, Guyana, and was a popular announcer at cricket games in the U.S. Guyanese cricket fans have proposed renaming the DCC Pavilion as Fred Wills Pavilion.
Mr Wills died in New Jersey USA.
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