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From page 7 the Eagle” which saved Guyana’s bacon. First, it was the institution of visa sanctions to members of the then PNC Government, their families and relatives which sparked second thought to continue holding the country to hostage. A soured caretaker President Granger’s 75th birthday celebration was marred as the US Government announced the sanctions. In as much as this move instilled some degree of fear on July 15th, 2020, a still dejected and daunted PNC Government refused to comply. It was only when the heavy booths of the then US Secretary of State, Mr. Mike Pompeo, directed that, “individuals responsible for or complicit in undermining democracy in Guyana,” “step aside”, that Dr. Ali was allowed to be sworn in as the President of Guyana and the PPP/C Party form the new government. “The Granger government must respect the results of democratic elections and step aside,” Pompeo said.

The PNC needs to reflect back in Guyana’s Parliament, November 2018, when former Prime Minister of Guyana, Moses Nagamootoo, once told the then PPP Opposition Party, “We are not afraid of debate. We are old debaters. Question is, there is an old unwritten law, this is inequity that says “He who wants justice must come with clean hands”. The clean hands doctrine is based on the maxims of equity, which states that one, “who comes into equity must come with clean hands.” This doctrine requires the court to deny equitable relief to a party who has violated good faith with respect to the subject of the claim.

The dirty hands of the PNC can never be clean. They have forcefully, violently and brutishly rigged elections in order to retain power. Their mantra is to seize power at any cost.

Mr. Nagamootoo had declared, “First, the Constitution – our law says that in order for a motion of no-confidence to pass it must have a majority of the elected members of the National Assembly. I’ll repeat that. It must have a majority of all elected members of National Assembly. Our National Assembly has 65 members. It means that the motion of no-confidence, in order to pass, must have 33 members who are elected as members of the National Assembly. The Opposition doesn’t have that. It is the government that has 33 members who are elected and sitting in the National Assembly.”

It was the very party which went against its words to claim that 33 is not the majority of 65. Of course, their “bombasity” was exposed when the CCJ overruled their “unmeritorious, frivolous and vexatious” claim. Mr. Charrandas Persaud’s name will forever be associated with the motion of no-confidence and Guyana’s fight for democracy.

Yours respectfully Jai Lall.