I READ with deep shock a statement attributed to Leader of the Opposition, Mr. David Granger,that his party, A.P.N.U, intends to cut the 2014 Budget. 

The Chief Justice has already ruled that the opposition has no power in law and under the Constitution, to cut the Budget and that the cuts inflicted on the 2012 Budget are unconstitutional. As far as I am aware, this ruling of the Chief Justice has neither been set aside nor stayed by another Court.
What powers, therefore, does A.P.N.U intend to use to cut the 2014 Budget; will they violate the laws and the Constitution, again? Is it their policy that, again, they will refuse to recognise a ruling from the Court? Are they now above the law? Is that the example they are setting for the ordinary man to emulate? Should every person who have court matters and against whom court decisions have been made, do the same and ignore them?
These are questions that the A.P.N.U must be called upon to answer.
Does this issue of lawlessness and the expressed intention to flout a Court ruling not concern the Guyana Bar Association, the Guyana Women Lawyer’s Association, and the Berbice Bar Association? Will they continue to remain silent on this issue as well, as they did with the jury tampering allegations made against Nigel Hughes? What about the other persons who write in the newspapers, as crusaders of the law, including Freddie Kissoon, Christopher Ram, Lincoln Lewis, Bryn Pollard, etc.
Have they all fallen asleep or do they only write to criticise the Government and defend the Opposition?

FARUK MOHAMED