Five judges ain’t enough
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August 12, 2026
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Aug 12, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News
(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyana got a new branch of jurisprudence. It is called: creative arithmetic.
Remember when a lawyer did explain that 33 votes outta 65 was not really a majority? His mathematics was simple. Half of 65 is 32.5. But since you cannot have half a man sitting in parliament, 32.5 must become 33. And since 33 is merely the rounded-up half, you must add one more to get a real majority. Therefore, according to this revolutionary arithmetic, 34 was required.
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