I would love to read that dude's motion papers. No doubt written by the PPP and includes some new and fascinating corruptions of the the Anglo-Caribbean legal heritage.

Actually, this dude alleges simply that the constitutional amendment is null and void because it was not adopted at referendum as his legal theory alleges.

It's a decent argument and a good theory. It depends on if the AG agrees. If this is from Jagdeo, as it appears to be, then I suspect it will win.

I don't understand why they named the Speaker as a party to the action though.

The prorogue of parliament is already illegal, so why is the PPP not challenging that? I think the PPP made a big mistake with trying to get Jagdeo back in power. I can see a military coup on the cards very soon.

Lawyer disbarred in US gets top post in Guyana

Shaun Orville Allicock, a lawyer who was admitted to the Guyana Bar in October 1998, was disbarred months later in United States of America, on August 6, 1999.
According to reports, he continues to practice as a partner with a local law firm. He has also been employed as Company Secretary of the Guyana Securities Council.
That entity is a statutory body tasked with regulating the local stock exchange.
Allicock was disciplined in the US in March 1998, and was ordered to notify his clients and other interested parties that he was suspended from practice and to submit an affidavit to that effect to the Supreme Court. He failed to submit the affidavit.
His misconduct, in the US Jurisdiction, which began less than two years after he was licensed to practice law, included commingling client and personal funds in his clients’ trust account, failure to deposit clients’ funds in his trust account, paying personal expenses from that account and misappropriating clients’ funds.
He also failed to perform legal services competently in four client matters, communicate with clients in two matters, promptly pay a medical lien or keep his address current with the State Bar.
“In addition, he improperly withdrew from employment in three matters and entered into an improper business transaction with a client.”
Allicock was suspended for three years, stayed, and placed on three years of probation with an actual 18-month suspension and until he made restitution to three clients.
Allicock stipulated that he mishandled his clients’ trust account by failing to deposit full amounts of settlement checks, commingling personal and clients’ funds, misappropriating clients’ funds and failing to keep proper records.
He also admitted to four counts of failing to perform legal services competently.
Allicock also dismissed a racial discrimination case filed on behalf of a client in federal court, promising to re-file it in state court.
He did not return 17 phone calls from the client and never re-filed the matter.
However, he persuaded the client to agree to loan him US$10,000 to help buy a bulldozer for a gold-mining operation in Guyana.
In exchange for the loan, the client would receive either a one-sixth interest in the bulldozer or a share of the lease agreement on the mine and partnership.
Allicock borrowed an additional US$7,000 from the client and caused him to incur about US$1,500 in cellular phone charges.
He had signed a note agreeing to pay the client US$8,500 and in neither of the business transactions, did Allicock advise the client in writing that he could seek independent counsel.
Allicock also did not pay a medical lien for one client in a personal injury case.
In an insurance dispute he handled for another client, he failed to finalize the settlement for two and a half years.

Hahaha, I have to admit Jags is one shrewd and talented politician. The man makes rings around Burnham, guyana's ex-greatest politician.

Coup from a nation of wusses?

yaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwn . . . much ado about nothing

btw TI, isn't it a bit early in the day to be pleasuring yourself to the life-sized portrait of Jagdeo astride kwamee in your bedroom?

One other thing to consider is that if that part of the Constitution is deemed void, then the whole Constitution would be invalid as well since it is a cornerstone of the Constitution. And to get such an amendment would require universal political support. I don't think that the PPP have considered that.

This is really a disgraceful act.

this is merely an election ploy to drive fear into the hearts of the wusses.

Jagdeo is using Chinese tactics to test the strength of the opposition, and it's working. The AFC will be pushed in a corner to form a coalition with the PNC and lose its identity. If that happens, I bet Jagdeo has another strategy lined up. 

how so?

Could it be a ploy by the PPP to have the opposition concentrate on Jagdeo rather than campaigning?

perhaps . . . it certainly smells like (an unserious) distraction

Actually Jagdeo would be a great 'asset' for the opposition.

i totally agree

Chinese tactics dictate you approach from all angles to confuse opponents into making wrong and sudden decisions. Both you and I know that the only hope of  defeating the PPP is a United opposition (Or a coup which won't happen)

Both opposition parties are hemming and hawing and not sure about a coalition. If a coalition is in works it has to be carefully planned out, and should have been in process already. I don't think that is happening.

If Jagdeo gets in power again, he won't be coming out. This is a serious threat to the opposition and a hastily formed coalition will definitely put the PNC in power and decimate both AFC and WPA. Granger is no fool, he knows this.

i bet you that Jagdeo has already infiltrated both PNC and AFC and has certain members on his payroll.

dude, the AFC/APNU coalition thing has been in the works for some time; it may happen, it may not

this is totally divorced from jagdeo's late-in-the-game, inconsequential flashing of lil leg . . . what are you babbling about?

anyway, u lost me at "If Jagdeo gets in power again, he won't be coming out" . . . this silly, neo-Burnhamite wet dream of yours is sooo mid-20th Century

update and come again

Fine, I stand corrected! I will observe the development closely, but look out for more PPP red herrings.

Ms Cleo saw it clearly.

a drowning  man will clutch at straw,these ppp ass hole going to jail