Cuts to the government’s budget can be made by the National Assembly, the Guyana Court of Appeal ruled yesterday, overturning a controversial decision by former acting Chief Justice Ian Chang that had its origins in the opposition-controlled Parliament of 2012.
Justice Chang’s decision had been widely criticised and was appealed by the then Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman.
Handing down the decision yesterday, acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, who presided over the proceedings along with Justices of Appeal Yonette Cummings-Edwards and B.S. Roy, found that
