President Jagdeo’s remarks on Justice Singh’s decision were unfortunate and ill-informed

Dear Editor,

The unjustified and puerile attack directed at Honourable Justice Jainaraine Singh, and by extension the whole Judiciary, by President Jagdeo constitutes an outrage which must be denounced as such. The President was of course attacking the recent ruling of Justice Singh which compelled a proportionate allocation of finances to the combined Parliamentary Opposition parties. This ruling meant that the AFC ought to get approximately $12M out of the $100M, (confirmed now by the President himself), which was taken out of the Consolidated Fund by Minister Ashni Singh and given to GECOM for scrutineering activities.

The statement attributed to the President that -“The decision would not stand anywhere, I don’t know what is happening to some of these judges. I don’t know