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Justice Chang will rule in favour of Jagdeo

Apr 19, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is my opinion that Justice Ian Chang is going to rule in the next two weeks that the law and the constitution were breached when the two term presidential restriction was made. Thus he will give judgement that Jagdeo could run for a third consecutive term
I may not be a great analyst but I believe I am a competent one. I believe in my studies of Guyanese society since I returned home have been have been generally correct. You can deem me chauvinistic but I still hold to the belief that I have a remarkably plausible record on my analyses of the social/ sociological and political landscape in Guyana.
I have written copiously on the judgements of Justice Ian Chang. In my opinion he is essentially driven by an awareness of the political context in which public institutions have to exist in. This was the point Chancellor Aubrey Bishop made during a delivery to a judicial seminar during the reign of President Burnham and which at the time was heavily criticized by attorney, Miles Fitzpatrick. There are many more descriptions I can offer on Mr. Chang’s judicial performance but I will leave that for after May 12.
I intend to be open and candid in this short letter and I am not easily intimidated when it comes to offering my opinions and my opinion is that Justice Ian Chang is not a judge I believe that operate in an environment where he puts himself outside the ambience of political currents, especially in the light of his performance the past five years.
I would like to bolster this opinion by saying that I find many of his judgements legally unsound.
I am not a lawyer but I can comprehend the laws of Guyana; any educated person can do so and arrive at a conclusion on the soundness of a judge’s decision. Eusi Kwayana stands out as a brilliant demonstration of that point.
The most noticeable manifestations of this point is the condemnation of Justice Insanally’s decision regarding the use of a mining concession between the miner and the authority of an Amerindian village by the Guyana Human Rights Associations and Red Thread’s rejection of Justice Chang Chang’s ruling on the rape case of then Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene.
The opposition seems to be elated on his judgement on the IDB spending. Justice Chang will have the last laugh when he rules in favour of Jagdeo. As to what will happen politically after the ruling against the two term restriction, then I guess the nation will cross that bridge when it comes to it.
Frederick Kissoon    

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