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Nov 08, 2022 Letters
Dear Editor,
It is amazing the exploits and tactics that the Hon. Attorney General of Guyana continues to embrace, makes an inseparable component of his governance persona and standards. Often, he comes across as a figure of marvel, so incredible are his exercises in political and other judgment. Think Marvel Comics and Captain Marvel and the Amazing Spiderman, and I confess to difficulty separating Guyana’s AG from those adorable figures clambering up walls, and walking on air. The latest caper from the AG involves one attorney and a senior SOCU, police officer. From the erudite mind of the AG came that: the matter is ‘water under the bridge.’ Really, sir? I sigh at the man’s incomparable sagacity.
I suppose because the AG says so that it is so, and we should all move along, while making sure to comply with the orders of those who know better. The only agenda of relevance is that of his beloved PPP. If not, it is the AG himself delivering his admirable version of shut up and ship out. In other words, stop wasting time slowing down the governance machinery, and move along. To do it my way, it has an eerier sound, more like “Hush, hush, Sweet Charlotte.” Pardon me, please, that should be Tameika Clarke, Esq.
I am intrigued. For here is Guyana’s AG – a man, a legal practitioner, a senior counsel, and a most esteemed citizen-declaring censoriously (a bit Stentorian-like also) about what is ‘water under the bridge’ when there is a broadening and ominous pattern of PPP Government agents, either acting at the behest of its leaders, or jumping to the conclusion that such would please them, doing the unthinkable and the illegal. This clashes rather glaringly and clumsily with how the AG himself has lowered the bridge to accommodate the low legal watermarks of his errant comrades in party and government, both senior and junior. Water it is, and it of the kind that is dark and dirty, and which also oozes and issues an overpowering odour relative to malfeasance in office and similar such silly things that are low down on the totem pole of both the AG and his PPP Government. Though I write in a more nuanced fashion today, I am positive that Guyana’s chief legal light fully understands what I put on the table, and those in his circle that I have in mind. There is a particular kind of agenda that is obvious.
Employing the AG’s now long finalised blueprint of who should be slammed and who should be spared, I point to his decisions on the man above him. I do the same on his absence of voice and position on the Chinese fellow and his little tussle with another man that is responsible for the AG’s continued political tenure and presence. To take this in another scorching direction, if the AG was the man of honor that I think that he can be (and may be), there are no circumstances under which he would deign to stand against a Guyanese fighting for Guyana on the issue of taxes and Exxon’s need to pay. I would have tendered resignation and left with head held high; maybe even burnished some real leadership credentials. Now, he may assert that some matters are under the purview of the President or the DPP’s office, but even if so, the lawman has not been hesitant to weigh-in and sound-off on matters outside of his jurisdiction. In fact, on this same Attorney-SOCU conflict, the AG stepped out of bounds and on the toes of his colleague at Home Affairs, since SOCU is police, and the Guyana Police is the territory of that Minister.
Water under the bridge, indeed! At this rate, there would be no bridge left, only all of us wallowing in the swamp of illegality that Guyana has become. That is, as defined, measured, and expounded on, by the Hon. AG and none other.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
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