PNCR commended for motion recognising the work of LFS Burnham

Sep 18, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I was glad to see that the PNCR accepted the advice offered in one of my letters to the editor, and moved their own motion for the Parliamentary recognition of the work of President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, their late founder/leader.

When the PPP/C had moved their motion for recognising the sterling work of their founder/leader, the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the PNCR had wanted recognition to be accorded to Forbes Burnham at the same time, a view also supported by certain letter writers and columnists.

This was not accepted, and in my contribution in the letters columns, I pointed out that, among other things, the PNC had, from 1985 to 1992 when they demitted office, time to have moved such a motion; but, as I also said in my letter, after Burnham’s death, the PNCR did not seem, for years, to even want to mention his name.

I wish to commend the PNCR for eventually moving such a motion, whether as a result of my advice or not, and also the PPP/C for supporting it, especially the gracious remarks of the Honourable Prime Minister Sam Hinds and his tactful comments and views, as well as some of his suggestions.

What we have now is a motion recognising Forbes Burnham, passed by a democratically elected Parliament representing the will of the people, which would not have been the case under the PNC, from 1985 to 1992.

“Now, this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end; but, perhaps, it is the end of the beginning” (Winston Churchill, from one of his World War 11 speeches, when the Battle of Britain was won (in the air) by the heroic Royal Air Force), as the PNCR still has quite a lot to account for to the Guyanese people, during their tenure of office.
John Da Silva