RATHER than deploy their new found situation towards the betterment of their fellow Guyanese in their current parliamentary position, both political opposition parties have for the entire first year of the 10th Parliament, employed diktat as a means of attempting to impose their will.

Such a strategy has seen the unprecedented motion of budgetary cuts that almost brought the nation’s many transformative programmes to a halt. Of course, the Court ruled such to have been illegal.
One would have thought that such a legal decision would have served as a guide for both opposition parties to be more careful in their interpretation of the laws, as once again manifested in APNU’s defeated High Court challenge to the Executive on the issue of the Lotto Fund.
As all are aware, for years, both opposition parties and others of their ilk have been accusing the government of not depositing the state’s share of the Lotto Fund into the Consolidated Fund as against a Development Fund. The latter action found support in keeping with both the Constitution and the provisions of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act. This was a position ever since reiterated by the government in their many replies to the opposition on this recurring question.
It must be noted that leading this argument has been Christopher Ram who seems not content in constantly giving bad advice to his opposition cohorts. What a great pity, that they have once again allowed him to lead them to another disgraceful defeat.
This is yet another clear example of misuse of parliamentary power by an opposition coalition bent on power play.