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Call for CARICOM to intervene in Guyana’s affairs
Dear Editor,
This is an open letter to CARICOM. Please print in your newspaper. The letter follows. As for the confederation for all the CARICOM nations, it is incumbent upon your organization/Charter to see that all nations within your Charter function pursuant to the democratic principles of your organization and the laws of their respective nations.
These Member States accepts CARICOM to be their final democratically decision-making body on specific matters of joint interest. Thus, they delegate some of their sovereignty to CARICOM.
As such, you are legally and morally obligated to see that law and order are paramount to improve and define the political direction of each Member States for CARICOM to be effective. An inaction to any unconstitutional act by anyone of these Member States will not be in the best interest of CARICOM, since CARICOM draws its strength from the Member States. Thus, sitting idle to the growing violations of Guyana’s Constitution by the government needs your immediate attention.
Guyana governance is at a crossroad, if not dysfunctional, the government is blatantly violating its own Constitution especially (Article 161[2} and flagrantly disobeying and/or disrespecting the rule of law. These illegal behaviors are symptoms of a State becoming a rogue nation which may be used as a precedent for other States, if fundamental thinking and drastic measures are taken to curb this illegal practice.
Failing to act, put the survival of CARICOM at risk, because the existence of CARICOM depends on the laws/constitutions of Member State. Therefore, if CARICOM allows one of its Member States to breach/violate its own laws, then the mission of CARICOM is in jeopardy as other Member States might follow and there might be no expansion. CARICOM must now take extreme measures to end Guyana’s government constitutional malfeasance and/or maladministration before it manifested into a dangerous threat to the region.
Hon. General Secretary, you may want to argue that Guyana is an independent nation, and CARICOM should not intervene. However, in making such argument, you must first realize that when Guyana like the other nations become part of the CARICOM fraternity, it did so on the premise that the Charter will guarantee that fundamental rights of the citizens are protected by Member State’s constitution both legally and institutionally.
Thus CARICOM cannot coexist with any Member States that repudiate institutional democracy, prosperity, and peace, social, political, and economic harmony. This then gives CARICOM the compelling legal authority to intervene to ensure that constitutional rights are protected either by their respective Member State (such as Guyana) or by CARICOM itself.
Thus, if CARICOM acquiesces to Guyana’s deplorable legal situation by doing nothing, then CARICOM become a threat and a danger to its own mission.
There is no doubt Hon. General Secretary, if you allow this illegal practice to go on, it will reduce CARICOM to mere chaotic rubbles. The political domination of this nation (Guyana) should not erode CARICOM’s democratic principles.
Bobby Gossai
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