Dear Editor,
The Attorney General is unreasonably stubborn in his schizophrenic belief and weird math that 34 is the absolute majority of 65 seats. I say schizophrenic and weird because the math we all learned, and in which, I am certain, the Judges in the Court of Appeal and Caribbean Court of Justice have been similarly educated, is that 33 is greater than 32 by 1, and that is all that is required for an absolute majority. Mr. Williams’ idea of “rounding off” half a vote into a whole vote by adding another “half’ on one side of the equation is totally and mathematically flawed. Any 12-year old, learning equations and inequations, is taught that whatever operation is performed on the left side of the equation or inequation must also be performed on the right side. But the AG neglects or refuses to do so. He rounds off one side of the equation but leaves his side hanging with a half a vote.
Furthermore, in Mr. Williams’ fake math, he agrees that while the Yeas and Nays add up to 65, (A+B=65), he wants A-B to be 2 (absolute majority). This is impossible. If A+B=65, there is no way A-B can be 2 (unless there does, indeed, exist a half a man in Guyana Parliament). For him to be mathematically accurate, he will have to change up his petition (and the Constitution, also) to say that for the No Confidence Motion to pass, the Yeas must win by three or more votes. I hope the Judges are taking note of this. I would hate to be called half a Guyanese or half a West Indian if they don’t.
Yours faithfully,
Gokarran Sukhdeo
