PPP executive member Gail Teixeira has written to Commissioner of Police Leslie James and the Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) Reverend John Smith urging them to defend the rule of law saying that recent alleged statements by government officials are inciting and a threat to public order and safety.
In the letters released to the news media yesterday, Teixeira referred to online reports carried by the news site Demerara Waves and Daily News Guyana in the context of recent rulings by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
On Tuesday, the CCJ ruled that the December 21 no-confidence motion brought against the David Granger-led APNU+AFC administration was validly passed with the votes of 33 members of the 65-member National Assembly, thereby compelling the resignation of Cabinet and the holding of general elections. In addition, the court also ruled that the process used to unilaterally appoint Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was “flawed” and unconstitutional.
