Judge Sandil Kissoon

Mar 10, 2024 Editorial

Kaieteur News – Guyanese could use a few more citizens like High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon. Citizens that are strong and steely in determination. Citizens that have the wisdom to appreciate that the laws of Guyana are for what is in the interests of the Guyanese people. In the varied walks of Guyanese life, many citizens quiver and quibble, not Sandil Kissoon. In high and low circles, men and women surrender their mental faculties, their ethical moorings, to survive, to bask another day in the sun of a leader’s smile. Sandil Kissoon ties his shoelaces, goes to work, and lets his judicial reasonings be the sun in his firmament.

When a hard decision is called for, Judge Kissoon has delivered. When a courageous jurist is required, there are few others in his category, his class. Where others hem and haw, and seek shelter behind legal veils, his mind functions on a different plane. He sees the law first through the eyes of what is fair, what would be held as just by many, and then through the eyes of local sons and men. His decisions in the last few months have not recommended him to the powers of the moment, even incurred considerable wrath behind the barely contained façades of neutrality and civility. In fact, assurances were claimed by a rank outsider to have been given to him about efforts afoot to overthrow Judge Kissoon’s adjudication. The scales of justice in Guyana have that pronounced tilt, far less than the wide-eyed innocence claimed, with blindfolded state now in tatters.

Because of his interpretations of the law, and the rulings to which they have led, Judge Kissoon could not be among the candidates whose name would come up for the highest judicial offices in this country. Those who have much say in such choices are sure to use the powers at their disposal to sabotage his case. It would be a shame for he could be just the fearless presence that Guyanese need at the apex of the local court system, whenever such openings were to come available up the line.

The people in this country, the mass of poor ones whose only history has been poverty, need a champion to stand as an advocate for them. Their longstanding heroes have failed them in the most abject fashion. What makes matters worse for the Guyanese people is that their heroes surrender their birthright. But still try to present an image of being for the masses of working poor. These are the ones in the so-called richest country in the world per capita, the constantly expectant, the forever disappointed. We at this publication describe this richness as so-called because it has turned out to be a mirage and farce for Guyanese. It will take a few more Judge Sandil Kissoon to lift them out of the grey world (the grim margins) to which they have been pushed. Pushed by their own, who are consumed with groveling in greasy subjection to the ambitions and commands of those who have ripped off the poor and hopeful wherever they have set foot. The darker the exploited and gouged population, the ghastlier the local result.

What chance for those who still harbor dreams, who still retain some level of anticipation, in their hearts that their once trusted ones will rise to the occasion that this new era in Guyana’s existence now demands. The veteran ones have gotten slicker with their con games and camouflages. The new ones on the scene have been fast learners and make up their minds quickly. It is about who to latch onto to make hay in the richness of Guyana, and who to abandon without a second thought. Old and new have perpetuated the seasons of frustrations and discontents. This is the sum of the local environment, and this is what makes the presence of Judge Sandil Kissoon so resonant with promise, something of a lifeline on which to grasp. What else and who else is there for the people of Guyana to grasp? The national wealth holds so much light, yet it has been so light in its touch on Guyanese. The loud voices, and brash characters, have only hollowness as their record.

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