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Prorogation
DEAR EDITOR,
‘Prorogation’ – easily the most used (misused) word in local parlance over the last two weeks; possibly second only, to ‘corruption’ in the recent years.
The taxi driver erupted:
“What is this going on in Guyana? I hear dey say the president is a rogue! I thought was the AG!”
Just one of many examples of the confusion surrounding what has generally been called a constitutional malpractice. There is a suspicion that so many did not know the word ’prorogation’ until two weeks ago; and these they say include MPs (and perhaps even the President), and who quickly confused it with ‘proroguery’ so that the exposition on TV 28 on Sunday night 16 November 2014 was most welcome. It consisted of presentations by AFC’s Moses Nagamootoo and APNU’s Carl Greenidge expertly elicited by Ms. Carolyn Walcott, the moderator. (There was nothing moderate about the latter’s performance).
However succinctly, she quite brilliantly extricated from the respective speakers their own elucidation of the concept, the action; constitutional implications and political ramifications of the perceived malpractice of ‘prorogation’.
The responses of the two interviewees rose to the heights (depths) of Ms. Walcott’s probing questions, offering the viewer (listener) a most comprehensive series of lessons about the constitutional environment in which the prorogation was instituted. It was a display of erudition deserving of several replays, as the gentlemen in turn instructed on local political history (and histrionics) while providing a thoughtfully crafted backdrop of international incidents of comparable significance.
It was touching to watch the polite history lesson delivered by APNU’s Greenidge when once the moderator repeated the misinformation of other prorogations in the Commonwealth – a misstep that in no way detracted from her own exemplary performance.
Also promising was the absence of disagreement between the differing perspectives offered, the quality of argumentation which while competitively high, did not reflect any contestation.
It was a combination enlightened by a chemistry that gives hope for the future for which this crisis may provide opportunity.
The engagement closed on a high note that resonated as if all three players were future presidential candidates.
E.B. John
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