…on the recount
So, all Guyana waited with bated breath – no easy task in the age of COVID-19! – once again for a decision by a court, which your Eyewitness had assumed followed the rule of “never on a Sunday!” But here it was on a Sunday morning the Appellate Court did meet to consider the appeal of APNU Candidate Ulita Moore to insist that the Full Court was wrong to allow GECOM to go ahead with their recount, and moreso to allow her leader David Granger to agree with Bharrat Jagdeo to have Caricom “supervise” the said recount! Maybe it was because the governmental lockdown banned all church services??
Anyhow, thankfully, the Court allowed a sound feed so that all of us, having knocked off our bake-and saltfish with bush tea – could listen to the judgements. Judgement Day?? Your Eyewitness is once again not going to torture you with the details of the procedural questions of whether the lower courts of Justice Holder (High Court) or Full Court of Justices George and Harnanan had or didn’t have that critical power called “jurisdiction” to hear and pronounce on the cases they did.
It didn’t matter. ‘Cause while on one hand the critical casting judgement of Justice Gregory insisted that the Full Court was correct to rule that the recount could proceed – as did Justice Persaud and so carry the majority. By Art 162 and Art 62, GECOM’s omnipotent – can do whatever it wanted to ensure elections were transparent and fair!! On the other hand, she gave jurisdiction to Justice Holder of the High Court jurisdiction to pronounce on whether Granger and Jagdeo’s agreement was kosher. Thing was – Holder hadn’t even considered the matter much less pronounce on it!!
But Gregory figured that since the matter had been raised by Moore in Holder’s court, then SHE would tell him what he should have ruled!! That is only GECOM can supervise its elections so that Caricom’s SUPERVISION was out!! This one kinda threw your Eyewitness for a loop – not only because Gregory was putting words into Holder’s mouth, but she was answering a philosophical conundrum that couldn’t be answered for millennia!!
To wit, if God (like GECOM) is omnipotent, why can’t he destroy evil (or in GECOM’s case delegate supervision)?? Gregory insists omnipotent GECOM can’t delegate however. So, does this mean God can’t destroy evil?? Well, we know he can’t, since it’s flourishing quite well, thank you – what with the PNC dragging this election count out till the end of never, and all that!!
So, in conclusion, Dear Readers, don’t get your hopes up on some quick resolution to our election crisis.
COVID-19 will be solved first!!…
on the COVID-19 slackness
One of the reasons why some countries have gotten ahead of the dreaded COVID-19 spike, is they reacted very quickly to impose restrictions on movement of the citizenry all the way to a complete lockdown. Simple as that. In any contagious disease, if you can’t get close to others, you can’t transmit or contract the germ! Also, while folks mightn’t take the order seriously at first, by the time the disease starts to really break out, they’d have fallen into line.
Simple?? Well, evidently not to this government. They dillied and dallied for an eternity, even as Rowley next door gave them cues, which they studiously ignored. Was it because he was miffed after he was lured to come to Guyana to break the Grangerian knot (of rigging) but was then taken for a ride – literally and figuratively??
Anyhow, we’re now finally in lockdown mode, but it’ll take a while before folks get serious.
They should imitate the former govt ministers – who’re all evidently in self-isolation!?!
…but no CCJ appeal!!
The Appellate Court giveth while also taketh!! By giving Granger’s stalking horse, Ulita Moore, the crumb of “no supervised” recount, it took away her right to appeal to the CCJ!
No 33 less than 32 dilemma!!
