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Nov 12, 2020 Letters
Dear Editor,
Kaieteur News – Former President Donald Ramotar, in a recent letter, recommends that attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes should be ‘silked’ that is, made a Senior Counsel (SC).
He wrote: ”I believe there is another very outstanding lawyer who is just as deserving but was not considered at this time. That is Mr. Nigel Hughes, he is one of the better lawyers in this country and is a deserving candidate for Senior Counsel.”
Editor, isn’t Nigel Hughes the same lawyer who disingenuously asserted in December 2018 at the time of the ‘No Motion Confidence’ when the National Assembly consisted of only 65 members that ”to be defeated, whoever it is that brings the motion has to acquire 34 votes.”
Hughes in his assertion tried to subvert constitutional convention and reverse the majority rule principle which states that the greater number should exercise greater power.
His ‘theory’ was bought hook, line and sinker by the APNU/AFC which used it as a delaying tactic to remain in power illegally and led directly to their barefaced rigging of the elections.
Hughes who is now representing the families of the two young cousins murdered in Berbice is clamouring with the PNCR and the dubious Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) for an Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to probe into their deaths.
Nigel Hughes may be an outstanding lawyer in Donald Ramotar’s opinion but he falls short in his competency with regards to his integrity.
Sunder Singh
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