WHEN did Annand Goolsarran become versed in Constitutional matters that now excuses his failure to table Guyana’s audited accounts under the PNC regime?Goolsarran has been using his weekly column in the Stabroek News as a pedestal of self-aggrandizement. His latest attempt at self-promotion has been to speak about the constitutionality of the tabling of the Financial Paper 1/2014. Judging from his dissection of the Constitution I can only conclude that he relied on his friend and fellow anti-Government cohort, Christopher Ram, as Goolsarran himself is incapable of understanding basic legal language and instruction.
If one differs that Goolsarran had to rely on his friend to write about the constitutionality of the Financial Paper, one just need to look back to the years he was Auditor General under the PNC government. Goolsarran failed, repeatedly to table the country’s audited accounts. It can only be assumed that he did not understand his legal obligations in keeping with the Constitution under 223 (3) which mandate the Auditor General to submit his reports to the Speaker to be laid before the National Assembly.
So now that Goolsarran has some understanding of his legal responsibility while he held the post of Auditor General , maybe he can finally do the right thing and submit to the Parliament those outstanding legal documents!
Unless he fulfills his legal obligations, he should not propagate himself as an authority of any credibility to speak on matters which he has a demonstrated record of failure.
Goolsarran need to remember that his past is so publicly stained, anything he attempts to speak about taints any semblance of credibility.
As the old adage goes: People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

ANDREA SINGH