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After being refused permission for a street protest,Wholesale Jerseys, the party members along with some of its supporters chose to picket the Office of the President and subsequently shuttled their way to the American Embassy and the Canadian High Commission where the again picketed.The Guyana Police Force was in view but did not disturb the protesters.According to the Party Leader,Wholesale Jerseys From China, Robert Corbin,Wholesale Jerseys China, the demonstration outside of the US embassy was to alert them as to what was going on in Guyana.He said that he was optimistic that they would exert “tremendous pressure that they have on the government of Guyana to have an international investigation.”The investigation to which Corbin was referring, include the alleged link between Roger Khan and Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy and the infamous spy laptop and the murders of some 200 persons by Khan’s Phantom Squad.When asked why the US should intervene given that Guyana was a sovereign state,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, Corbin replied, “They give a lot of assistance to Guyana, they intervened in Honduras, they have intervened in many countries around the world.”He added that the US had the influence to put ‘mild’ pressures such as when they withdrew the visas of certain Ministers of the Government recently.“All we are doing is a friendly reminder to the US that they ought to take note of what is happening in Guyana.”Corbin was optimistic that overtime the campaign that his party has launched will achieve success pointing again to the case of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian President who is currently facing the international court for crimes against humanity.Yesterday’s activity was just another one of the promised extra parliamentary activities ever since Corbin walked out of Parliament on July 30 last. ‘We shall overcome’ was the cry of these picketers yesterday outside Office of the PresidentAt that time,Wholesale Jerseys From China Supply, he threw the law volumes in Parliament to the ground saying that they now meant nothing after the Speaker had ruled against a motion Corbin had wanted debated as a matter of urgent public importance.Speaker of the House,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China, Ralph Ramkarran,Nike NFL Jerseys China, told Corbin that the grounds for his seeking to adjourn the day’s business and deal with another matter did not meet the criteria in that it was not urgent and more so based on newspaper articles among others.Corbin even pleaded to no avail with the Speaker to set a new precedence given that all of the grounds that he mentioned were based on Parliaments outside of Guyana. “This is not a light matter.”This angered Corbin who toppled the law volumes before him saying that “if a matter of this gravity is not urgent for this country these laws of Guyana mean absolutely nothing in this country.”He subsequently told media operatives that the laws now mean absolutely nothing with the President himself breaching the Constitution.“What sense do those laws mean when a government refuses to accept and abide by the law?”He pointed, also, to the incident when individuals, including Members of Parliament, were refused permission to stage a peaceful picket outside of Parliament, given that the police had kept them to the corner away.Corbin was adamant that he was attempting to have a matter ventilated and resolved that it is affecting every decent Guyanese.The nation, he said, is entitled to know what happened to more than 200 persons that have been killed “and the first time we have an opportunity of concrete evidence with a witness who is alive the Speaker can’t rule that this is a matter of urgency.” |
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