How real is our Parliament, as a repository of the power of the people, to effect good governance?
Since the 2011 general elections, this question has generated enormous interest, the most recent being Chief Justice Ian Chang’s ruling that Parliament is quite limited in its power to chop excesses off Government’s annual national budget.
Stabroek News columnist and former government minister, in several portfolios, under different Presidents, Henry Jeffrey, lambasted the Chief Justice’s ruling in his last column in this newspaper, noting with indignant disgust that Justice Chang’s ruling “failed to take into consideration the general trends in international parliamentary/budgetary relations, long and historical practice in
