Sarah Browne and Vikash Ramkissoon whose appointments as parliamentary secretaries were nullified by the Court of Appeal, are challenging that ruling before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
They are arguing before the Trinidad-based court of last resort, that the local appellate court got it wrong in ousting them from the National Assembly for being unlawful members, since their names, while on their party’s list, were not among the 33 names extracted to take up seats in the National Assembly. Browne and Ramkissoon’s contention is that they had been duly sworn in pursuant to Article 186(3) as non-voting members since at the time of their appointments, they were not already elected members of the Assembly.
The Guyana Court of Appeal had ruled that since their names were on the party list, but not among the 33 extracted to take up seats in the Assembly, they could not qualify as being non-voting members of the Assembly; as parliamentary secretaries.
