LET me say right off that I hold no brief for any political organisation or agency. In fact, I have no political affiliation, but as a tax-paying Guyanese and a patriot, who likes fairplay, I seek your permission to publish this letter in your letter columns.
I do this with the hope that those readers, who are slumbering and take objective looks at the travesty that is being fostered on the Guyanese nation in Parliament – by the one-vote combined opposition under the guise of the people’s business, as has been the norm since the opening of the 10th Parliament.

This one seat has caused mayhem in both Parliament and specific areas of this dear land of ours.
“Send in the clowns” – I refer to the well-known song sung by the late Frank Sinatra, as it can truly apply to the shenanigans of the opposition over the months in and out of Parliament, and, unless there is divine intervention, this will continue.
This is a serious comedy that is being perpetrated on the Guyanese nation and electorate, which is insulting and highly contemptuous of all rational, thinking Guyanese.
Symptom – 1:  The holder of the Speaker’s office, who was very sick prior to the elections, was given reviving treatment by his erstwhile colleagues of like ilk with the Speaker’s chair, but he seems to have had a serious relapse mentally.
I must say that the Speaker is fast becoming a candidate for psychological evaluation, since his actions or lack thereof, in Parliament over the last months, and more recently, is common knowledge of any Guyanese with a modicum of knowledge; since his symptoms manifest every time he makes a statement of mindless thought in Parliament.
First symptom: Accusing the Minister of Home Affairs of ordering the shooting of three peaceful demonstrators/protestors. Maybe the Minister of Home Affairs had a drone aircraft that he used from his office 65 miles away.
Second symptom: Calling for an enquiry with international legal luminaries, that was granted, but restricting the areas of the enquiry-specifics to his needs; ignoring the lootings, burnings and all other criminal behaviour; ignoring probable cause; then attempting to pre-empt the outcome of the inquiry.
Third symptom: Abdicating the Constitutional Oath of Office by condoning mayhem, obstruction and gross disrespect by Members of the Opposition, and wimpishly and timidly tried to absolve himself by taking refuge in the adjournment of the nation’s business to cover his ineptitude and cowardly behaviour, as his symptoms kicked in.
Fourth symptom: Suspending the Standing Orders of the House to facilitate a grudge by one of his associates (Basil Williams – Big Moustache) against the Minister of Home Affairs – an issue that had its genesis with the Home Affairs Ministry exposing a tape with Basil Williams and the then Commissioner of Police, Winston Felix, who was awarded a seat in Parliament for services rendered.
Incidentally, I wonder how many cases may have been prejudiced and compromised in and out of the courts – criminal or civil, by this unholy alliance.
This, then, is the overriding reason for the witch hunt and the unbridled and uncivilised behaviour towards the Minister of Home Affairs. This was not conducting the state/nation’s business, but using the forum of Parliament for their own grinding vendetta with the connivance of the Speaker, for which I am sure some members of the opposition must have been very embarrassed; but are only rendering lip service to the ongoing comedy in which, as extras in the cast, they have to be servile, sacrificing their self-respect and honesty on the altar of incompetence and stupidity in what has occurred in the past, and is continuing to manifest itself in Parliament.
It is not spontaneous but crafted and executed by the opposition cast and more suited as an extravaganza for the Theatre Guild, rather than the of Parliament chamber, with the Speaker as co-author/script writer, Producer and Director.
In ancient times the (‘Impartial’) occupier of the Speaker’s chair would have been dressed to suit his role as a legal buffoon in multi-coloured, jerkin doublets tights and shoes with pointed turned-up toes-the hallmark of a jester of the court.
Symptom 5: The Speaker, by denying the minister his constitutional right to speak and sending him to the Committee of Privileges, of which he is the Chairman, is only compounding the axe-grinding vendetta, which further serves to highlight his mental state of mind.
The Speaker, a member of the AFC and ex-member of APNU, has divided loyalties to both entities and can never fulfil the mandate of his constitutional office as the Speaker, impartially, without offending one or the other. But like the man who tried to ride two asses at the same time and ended up on his own ass, this Speaker is just as gymnastic.
So don’t send in the clowns; they are already there; and in the words of another Frank Sinatra song – The Joker is wild.