PULL QUOTE:  The opposition needs to be reminded that we live in a different era and far from that period when they flew their party flag above our national flag in the compound of the Court of Appeal which at that time was our highest court. Clearly, we are witnessing a resurgence of that dictatorship mentality.
THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has voiced its concern over the latest “attack on the independence of Guyana’s judiciary” by the political Opposition.
PPP Executive Secretary, Zulfikar Mustapha was reading a statement yesterday at Freedom House, Robb Street, Georgetown. In the statement, Zulfikar said the interference by APNU, in labelling a recent decision by the acting Chief Justice in the ongoing High Court proceedings on the 2012 budget cuts as one of a political nature, was a blatant attack on the independence of the judiciary.

Also present at the Freedom House press conference were Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill and Media Coordinator, Romel Roopnarine.
“The opposition needs to be reminded that we live in a different era and far from that period when they flew their party flag above our national flag in the compound of the Court of Appeal, which at that time was our highest court. Clearly, we are witnessing a resurgence of that dictatorship mentality,” Zulfikar stated.
According to the statement, it was the very opposition which agreed to the legal luminaries from both Guyana and across the Caribbean who sat on the Linden Commission of Inquiry that took an “about-turn” and launched a series of “scathing” attacks on the integrity of these professionals when their arguments began to unravel before the Commission.