IN RELATION to the Chief Justice’s ruling on the country’s Budgetary cuts by the parliamentary Opposition, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 was indeed an historic day for Guyana and the Guyanese people when Chief Justice Ian Chang made the ruling that the National Assembly has no right to cut the National Budget estimates of our country. The Guyanese people certainly welcomed the Chief Justice’s ruling. In fact, all the indigenous Toshaos I contacted rejoiced when they heard the news.

1. The people of Guyana and their democratically elected Government under the leadership of President Donald Ramotar therefore scored a major victory against the power-hungry parliamentary Opposition (PNC/APNU & AFC) who, in their unpatriotic agenda, had cut the 2012 & 2013 National Budgets presented to the Guyanese people by Dr. Ashni Singh, the Hon. Minister of Finance. Totally ashamed of their splendid defeat in the High Court, the parliamentary Opposition still claim that they intend to cut the upcoming 2014 National Budget, despite the High Court ruling by the Chief Justice. This would certainly be contempt for the High Court and a demonstration of lawlessness, which are definitely not qualities for national leadership, which the people of Guyana must seriously take note of in terms of their removal from Parliament.
2. The parliamentary ball is now in the court of the Speaker of the House, who must ensure that the National Assembly upholds the Constitution of our country so that we will not have far-reaching effects and a constitutional crisis. So Mr. Speaker, please let the National Assembly uphold the Constitution of Guyana at all times.
3. But it seems as though the parliamentary Opposition (APNU/APNU & AFC) intends to be on another time and money-wasting spree as a result of their ignorance of the Separation of Powers regarding the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. In this regard they intend to legally challenge the Chief Justice’s ruling. They shall fail again!
4. The problem with the parliamentary Opposition is their foolish thinking that they are the Government. No, they are not. They are the Opposition who want to run the Government and the country through the back door, which is not strange to their electoral malpractices prior to 1992. But the good book states that anyone who enters, or tries to enter the house through the back door is a thief. Now is the time to start watching them.
Peter Persaud