THE BOOK OF JUDGES : REVEALING, RIVETING

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The Book of Judges –Revealing, Riveting-July 2026

The Bible is out.  It’s Guyana’s Book of Judges.  What a book, it is.  Like the Bible not referred to, there are good judges and a heap of bad judges.  Life.  Get used to it.  Most of all, there’s a place called Guyana.  Ever heard of it?  Better that didn’t happen.  Spare the senses, help the faculties endure much longer.

Try these.  First example, whoever said a judge has to be faultless, meaning, infallible, needs an immediate head x-ray.  Even Roman Catholic popes are not infallible.  Notwithstanding old pronouncements to the contrary over a century and a half ago.  If not Vicars of Christ, then it’s clear that expectations are too high for Guyanese judges.  What Guyanese may have in mind for local judges fits the mold of England’s Lord Mansfield and Lord Wilberforce.  Or America’s Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Evan Hughes.  They don’t make like them anymore.  Like JOF Haynes and Akbar Khan from right here.  Hence, I recommend that my fellow Guyanese come back down to earth.  Settle for Justice Clarence Thomas.  See how quickly this country is returned to the days of slavery (if it already isn’t).  Think a luminous jurist with the prowess of Justice Clarence Thomas would ever rule against American gladiators and New York Stock Exchange darlings, such as Exxon and Chevron.  Think again.

There’s America.  There’s England.  There is Guyana.  Things are a little peculiar here.  This is PPP Guyana.  The lid just collapsed on everything.  Perverse and profane are the fittest, most proper words.  Who cares about charges?  Since when did that matter to the PPP brain trust?  By the way, it’s a one-brain brain trust?  I am open to challenge, any enlightenment.  On both counts.  In a society where favoritism, cronyism, and nepotism are all at rampant levels, it is fascinating that so many Guyanese are still stuck at who’s related to whom.  Or was.  Take it for granted.  Move on.  The PPP has continuously proved that it’s a legacy entity.  Money passed on.  Assets handed down.  From father to son, mother to daughter, those have all been prominent parts of an enduring kith and kin culture.  Count on critical support from me.  It’s what my position on the appointment of judges with conspicuous political lineage.  None can say they don’t know where I stand.

Convictions, relations, connections, all are part of the same closed and intricate PPP spider’s web.  Outsiders are out.  Logically, where else can they be, since out is out?  I am bewildered.  Not blue; at least, not yet.  Guyanese just must manage themselves in a more responsible manner.  Old judges, recent judges, new judges, and temporary judges, what do citizens expect when they study these people?  I hope it’s not the voice of god from heaven gushing from them, man or woman. 

Where he or she is pronouncing about the last days and Judgement Day.  Or, taking a step lower, as fountains of wisdom, graced by traces of celestial intellect. In other words, the presence of those who brook neither interference nor resistance.  No questioning, objecting, differing.  Thus, I have spoken.  Thus, it shall be.  Adjudicated.  Over.

Sorry to deflate anyone’s balloon, help them return from space.  Judges are regular human beings.  A few are brighter and hardworking.  Quite a few are dumber than barbells and lazy as hell.  Judges partake of the fare of the dining room.  They visit the bathroom and read newspapers.  What they do with the latter when in the former, that’s not my business.  I must say, though, that the PPP has the business of the judiciary where it wants it.  From Judicial Service Commission to judicial service selections, everything is under control.  My hang-ups are straightforward.  If this is the grass, then what does that say about the weeds.  Those aspiring judges that didn’t make the cut. If these are Guyana’s best then this country had better start praying. 

My conviction.  My conclusion.