{"id":7290,"date":"2021-12-22T11:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2021-12-23T13:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:05:22","slug":"ali-administration-a-threat-to-the-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"ALI ADMINISTRATION A THREAT TO THE JUDICIARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For immediate release to all media houses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>ALI ADMINISTRATION A THREAT TO THE JUDICIARY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Alliance For Change condemns in the harshest manner the repugnant and blatantly racist position of a sitting minister in the Irfaan Ali led Administration. The AFC sees the statement by Ali\u2019s Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall as an attack against judges who exercise their independence and is a clear indication of the arrogance of the Ali government. It becomes even more repugnant when the attack is directed at two black women judges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dharamlall in his facebook post called for the esteemed judges, Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonnette Cummings Edwards and Appeal Court Judge Dawn Gregory to be \u2018defrocked\u2019 criticizing the judges decision that the Appeals Court has jurisdiction to hear in an elections petition related matter and called for their dismissal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Alliance For Change has always upheld the doctrine of separation of powers and respect for the judiciary and judicial officers even when judgements passed are not in our favour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Party finds it abominable that a sitting minister of government believes that he can attack Judges of our Court especially our women Judges without fear of reprisal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dharamlall\u2019s statement is also viewed as an open attempt to intimidate Judges into ruling in the government\u2019s favour. It threatens the independence of our Judiciary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Alliance For Change demands a full and unequivocal apology be issued to Chancellor Cummings-Edwards and Justice Gregory and calls on the President, Attorney General, Guyana Bar Association, Women Lawyers Association, Human Rights Association and other leading civil society groups and individuals to condemn Minister Dharamlall for his statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">[ENDS]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For immediate release to all media houses. ALI ADMINISTRATION A THREAT TO THE JUDICIARY The Alliance For Change condemns in the harshest manner the repugnant and blatantly racist position of a sitting minister in the Irfaan Ali led Administration. The AFC sees the statement by Ali\u2019s Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall as an attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnews","category-pressreleases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-1TA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7294,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/7294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}