Dear Editor,

DONALD Ramotar (a former president), in a recent letter, recommends that Nigel Hughes should be ‘silked’; that is, made a Senior Counsel (SC), saying that: “I believe there is another very outstanding lawyer who is just as deserving, but was not considered at this time. That is Mr. Nigel Hughes; he is one of the better lawyers in this country, and is a deserving candidate for Senior Counsel.”’

Editor, isn’t Nigel Hughes the same lawyer who disingenuously and mischievously asserted in December 2018, at the time of the No Confidence Motion when the National Assembly consisted of only 65 members, that to be defeated, whoever it is that brings the motion has to acquire 34 votes.

Nigel Hughes, in his assertion, tried to subvert constitutional convention, and reverse the majority rule principle, which states that the greater number should exercise greater power. His ‘theory’ was bought, hook, line and sinker by the APNU+AFC, which used it as a delaying tactic to remain in power illegally, and led directly to their barefaced attempt at rigging the elections.

Nigel Hughes, who is now representing the families of the two young cousins murdered in Berbice, is clamouring with the PNC and the dubious GHRA, for an Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to probe into their deaths. Editor, it is pellucidly clear that the PNC and GHRA have one thing in mind, and that is to subvert the efforts of the GPF in their investigation, and undermine the present government.

Nigel Hughes may be an outstanding lawyer in Mr Ramotar’s opinion, but he seems to fall short on integrity.

Yours truly,
Sunder Singh