The pendulum of justice

Jun 29, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt came out with a barrage of broadsides. All with intent to cripple. To put IDPADA-G out to pasture. Unceremoniously. Repulsively didn’t matter, was taken in stride. Whatever the demands of the push to decapitate IDPADA-G into a netherworld of insignificant existence. Just get the job done. Whatever has to be done, just do it. It was. Nasty didn’t matter. Preconceived audit conclusions. Fabricated audit claims and assaults. When criminalising the entity and its people was thought to be the extra lever needed, it was employed. When cheap agents with cheaper mentalities and the cheapest defenses were needed, they marked themselves present, willing, and available. A great country is this, isn’t it? A grand PPP Govt also, with leadership to match. No country is deserving of such a ghastly fate. No society of civilised people should be cursed with the ghoulish political setup as Guyanese have. Not even those where cannibalism is practiced daily.

The arc of the moral universe does take forever to complete its tortured semicircle, that slowest of slow-moving 180 degrees. But it does get there, to that serene arena where justice reigns, eventually. Whenever I think that the PPP Govt can’t go lower, I lose money. Whenever I think it isn’t capable of more of the same unusual horsepower, I’m shocked. Sadness follows. Not so much for the presidency. But for a man of the caliber of Bharrat Jagdeo. He knows better. He knows, he has to let some things go. Another great Guyanese takes the gloriously rollicking form of one Mohabir Anil Nandlall. An attorney general possessing some sliver of the right stuff, should be able to stand his ground and say: goddammit, don’t go there. Don’t tamper with what should be left alone. Don’t drag others into a dirty, shaky, fray, causing them to soil themselves.

The stench of what went wrong; wrong in its essences; wrong in the sum of its parts, from creation, reached to the heights of the Guyana justice pile. So, what do we have here? Say what? Who dragged in this dead cat involving withheld IDPADA-G subventions for four grinding years? It was chancellor of the judiciary (ag), the well-named, Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire who looked down her nose, and still couldn’t believe the horror before her. She neither winced nor wilted. True to her extended surname, she was. Get this abomination out of my docket, from these docks. Oh, by the way: see to it that IDPADA-G gets dealt with, pursuant to the decision of this honorable court. One vulgarity is enough. Let there be no other. Pay the people promptly, I add by way of subtitles, attaching my own orders.

Courts are not elected bodies. Their jurists are selected by people who got elected. It is part of the chicanery and contrivances of the politically crafty to force issues to unelected courts. Thus, they sneak from their mischiefs. Try to get others to do their dirty deeds. Justice George-Wilshire was having none of this tomfoolery, these palpable shenanigans. The arc of the moral universe takes an eternity to chart its course. But it does bend in the direction of justice. Will IDPADA-G collect?

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.

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