…in court
So now we have it from the horse’s mouth: AG Basil Williams did tee off Justice Holder forcing the man to summarily leave the bench to maintain his judicial sobriety! The judge’s hackles were raised when Williams, informed him in no uncertain terms: “I could say WHAT I want to say and HOWEVER I want to say it. I have always been like that.” So, the silk conferred by President Granger just increased his arrogance!
Imagine that!! So to hell with centuries of tradition and rules of court on how those in courtrooms ought to comport themselves! Does Williams wonder why Judges sit higher than he and others in the courts. Does he understand when this Judge is performing his role in court, he can’t treat the man as someone he went to law school with? If he doesn’t, why did he insist 23 times in a 30-minute press conference, he was Attorney General AND Minister of Legal Affairs. Wasn’t it because he was tired of Anil Nandlall and the newspapers? And, for good measure, why the heck are folks ejected from courts for wearing short pants when a Senior Counsel feels he can talk however he damn well pleases to a sitting Judge!!
But that’s the problem when you send a boy to do a man’s job – no disrespect to the sisters! Williams has proven to be more than an embarrassment to the Government of Guyana. He’s an embarrassment to the high calibre of legal luminaries that our country has produced and continues to produce. Hang down your JOF, hang down your head and cry!
But moving from the general to the specific, we’re happy the “Judiciary” is reviewing the incident and will be issuing a statement soon. From information already in the public realm, there’s no other option at a minimum but to issue a stiff reprimand to the AG and demand he goes down on his hands and knees to “beg pardon” of the Judge. All social actions separating us from the beasts in the jungle are guided by norms – and this is multiplied tenfold when we’re dealing with an institution that has the power of life and death over our citizens. We cannot undermine the Judiciary’s authority so capriciously as the AG has done.
If he has even a shred of decency, Williams should submit his resignation to President Granger – after his behind was condignly dealt with, behind the wood shed.
He should take a lead from Flynn who ostensibly resigned from Trump’s Cabinet because of contacts with the Russians.
But actually, according to the NYTimes, he was “both insufferable and incompetent”.
…Mayor at City Hall
When Patricia Chase Green succeeded Hamilton Green as Mayor of Georgetown, she’d completed 24 years of being mentored by the man who brought her into the snake-pit of City Hall politics. Whatever might’ve been her proclivities before as a nurse, after she succeeded her Green, she’s proven to be an apt pupil of the art of politics according from the school of Hamilton Green.
After her election, she was given a hagiographic piece in the Chronic where she announced nothing displeases her as much as dishonesty. “Not only in stealing, but if I ask you a question, be honest and give me an honest answer. Don’t be untruthful to me in an answer. Dishonesty upsets me greatly.”
Yep! That’s the lady who later signed away Georgetown to a couple of slick-talking parking meter salesmen from Mexico City!! But then she also said in the interview, “You can really trust no one in politics.”!!!
And that’s why you can bet your bottom dollar that in three months you’ll be feeding those ugly green monsters around town!!
…UG VC
Fresh from his rebuff of staff’s salary increases, VC Griffith announced a 35 per cent tuition increase. Guess if students can afford to attend university, they’re rich enough to afford the hike!!
