Former People’s Progressive Party (PPP) minister and political scientist Dr. Henry Jeffrey has argued that the High Court’s recent ruling in favour of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) does little to remedy what he describes as a broader erosion of justice, constitutional governance and the rights of African Guyanese.

Writing in his “Future Notes” column titled “Justice is yet to be done,” published in Village Voice News on July 5, Jeffrey contends that while the court ordered the Government of Guyana to pay IDPADA-G the outstanding balance of its 2022 subvention, the judgment falls far short of addressing what he believes are the state’s moral and legal obligations.

“The decision is useful, but it is miniscule in relation to the developmental agenda to which the Government of Guyana had committed itself,” Jeffrey wrote, arguing that the litigation was never fundamentally about money.