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Why are our lawyers tolerating this deceit?

Jan 08, 2012 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
On every occasion Minister Anthony opens his mouth to speak about his IMC, he mentions that he is acting on a ruling of the Chief Justice.  That is not true. The lawyers of this country and the opposition parties have remained silent on this crass abomination. The acting Chief Justice himself should take the moral high ground and correct Anthony. Now Roger Luncheon has repeated the deception of Anthony.
The Chief Justice (ag) made no ruling that involved the Ministry of Sports and the Guyana Cricket Board. In giving his decision on an injunction brought by a cricket official against the Guyana Cricket Board, the Chief Justice said the following; “…there may (MAY, emphasis on the word “may”) be the need for the Minister responsible for sports to impose his executive will….”
The acting Chief Justice knows that what he said was not a legal edict that by law has to be carried out. It was his opinion on what should be done given the turmoil the cricket administration is going through.
Minister Anthony has acted on the opinion of the Chief Justice. That opinion is not gospel, it is merely an opinion. Some lawyer should tell Anthony and Luncheon that.
The combined opposition, which has top lawyers in its midst, should call upon the Chief Justice to explain himself. I cannot see how the Chief Justice could allow two members of the Cabinet to continue to de-contextualize what he said. By way of this correspondence I am calling on the Chief Justice to clarify his action. He must explain one of two things.
Did he offer an opinion like every other human being? Or did he in his capacity as Chief Justice gave a ruling that had to be obeyed by the Ministry of Sports? This writer is contesting that nothing said by the Chief Justice compels the Ministry of Sports to imprison the offices of the Guyana Cricket Board. Minister Anthony should quote the specific law under which he acted to padlock the offices of the GCB. The opposition parties should not tolerate this post election authoritarianism
The opposition parties are going to get a rude awakening. Their incompetence over this issue, the treason accused and other national exigencies is going to cost them their political lives.
The President is going to call a snap election two years down the road and the PPP is going to win a parliamentary majority. It is simply amazing that the AFC and APNU have top class lawyers working for them yet APNU and the AFC have not rejected the crass nonsense that the Chief Justice made a ruling that compelled the Ministry of Sports to implement an IMC
For the umpteenth time; I repeat that there is no ruling, no judgement, no legal edict from any branch of the Guyana judiciary that compelled the Ministry of Sports to suspend the functionalism of the Guyana Cricket Board.
Minister Anthony acted on an opinion of the Chief Justice. When a judge’s opinion automatically becomes law and has to be implemented by the executive of the land, we have entered the realm of fascism. I am not a judge. I am not trained in law. I am a schooled social scientist capable of understanding the laws of my country and capable of interpreting what comes out of the mouths of people be it judge, doctor or president of a country.
I close with the unambiguous statement that there has been no ruling by the courts in Guyana that ordered the Ministry of Sports to suspend the existence of the Guyana Cricket Board
Frederick Kissoon   

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