ONCE again, the court, via the learned

Chief Justice, has ruled against the parliamentary opposition’s motion that had sought to gag the Honourable Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee, from speaking in the National Assembly.
It is now the fourth judicial decision that has gone against the opposition, and definitely brings into sharp focus their modus operandi, as an important constitutional organ, one that represents their constituents, and the wider national well-being.
This latest defeat is certain to deepen the already growing debate,  realisation, hence disappointment even  among party members, as to the correctness of such a strategy as a means of dealing with the perceived  executive excesses as alleged by the opposition.
If, as it is widely discerned, that it is an opposition ruse of creating high hopes of an eventual return to power,  in the minds of their many followers, then it has backfired. Loyalty, yes; but the leadership is going to come under severe pressure for explanations. Their followers have started to complain.
In fact, the general constituency of the nation had expected a cooperative mode as a strategy for moving Guyana forward, during this delicate period of the nation’s history, and even beyond.
It is very unfortunate, that the nation has had to experience unprecedented, unconstitutional acts, by an opposition whose only use of their unique position, has been attempts to stymie the socio-economic development progress, while concomitantly seeking to impose their diktat on the parliamentary process.
Guyanese are becoming more mature daily, since they realise that their country can only progress through a working together of both the government and the opposition.
Simply put, while rightly  expecting more from their opposition parties’ leaders in terms of practical programmes, they are fed-up and disgusted over its brand of sterile behaviour, which has not in any way benefited the nation.
The proposed, and deliberately ignored, consensus initiative by both APNU and the AFC, as a working template for effecting solutions to the nation’s many challenges, must now be given its working opportunity by the opposition.
When applied, early last year, as in the case of the Old Age Pension increase, it was successful. One may recall APNU’s leader, Mr. David Granger, rationalising, that in the current circumstances, one cannot get everything one wants, every time.
Then, he evoked the spirit of compromise. It was good sense, except that he and his fellow opposition leader, Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan, have not honestly and consistently   employed such a methodology in seeking to resolve issues.