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Nov 30, 2013 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
Many of your readers must be intrigued by the exchanges (however erudite) between Senior Counsel on the one hand, and the AG on the other, as published in the press recently.
The insistence by the latter as being constitutionally empowered to protect the interest of all Guyanese, at least titillates expectations that all citizens can appeal to that office for protection, and yet we all would be more comforted if we can be assured that those who voted for the majority, and their Parliamentary representatives, are equally entitled to such all-embracing protection.
There is just that nuance of the ‘goose and gander’ syndrome in the particular postulation.
But as a matter of related interest, under Title 1 of the Constitution’s “Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedom of the Individual” the following are included:
138. Protection of right to life.
139. Protection of right to personal liberty.
140. Protection from slavery and forced labour.
141. Protection from inhuman treatment.
142. Protection from deprivation of property.
143. Protection against arbitrary search or entry.
144. Provisions to secure protection of law.
145. Protection of freedom of conscience.
146. Protection of freedom of expression.
147. Protection of freedom of assembly, association and demonstration.
148. Protection from discrimination on the grounds of race, etc.
149A. Right to work.
149B. Right to pension and gratuity.
149C. Right to participate in decision-making process of the State.
149D. Equality of persons before the law.
149E. Equality of status.
149F. Equality for women.
149G. Indigenous people’s right.
149H. Right to free education.
149I.  Right to establish private schools.
149J. The environment.
Clearly we are safe!
E.B. John

 

 

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