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Jan 31, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Freddie Kissoon, in three of his articles, said that: (I) Guyana appears to be a primitive place; (2) where did the PPP boys get their houses from; and (3) if the PNC was not there.

The world began with a primitive culture. While some advanced what we refer to as modernization, others were left back because of many reasons.

The developed countries started many hundred years ago, yet the needs of the people are still not met. In Europe and North America, which we refer to as ‘developed countries’, they have the same problems as those of Guyana. Nowhere in the world are most of the people satisfied with the wages and salaries that they receive.

It was pointed out that, in Canada, a person must work for $17.00 (Can) dollars an hour to have a decent life. Surprisingly, the minimum wage in Canada is only $8.25 (Can) an hour. In the USA, it is worse, and in Europe it is not much better.

These countries have large buildings and good highways, yes, but it took them a long time and large amounts of money to reach where they are.

The USA have a foreign debt of over $3 trillion (US) while Canada, with a population of about 32 million people, has a debt of over $750 Billion (Can).

These countries have vast natural resources and finance, yet their debts are so huge. Guyana started its development in the mid-fifties under the PPP government, but when the PNC came to power, the country stopped developing and Guyana moved from being the bread basket of the Caribbean to the begging bowl of the Caribbean.

When the PPP took over the Government, Guyana was in shambles and the Government had to start all over. Guyana cannot be compared with other countries; but what the Government did, no other Government with so little or no money has every done — so much for its people in such a short time. (Can Freddie Kissoon name any?)

Guyana may not have skyscrapers, like other countries, because we do not need them; but the buildings, small or large, are more beautiful than many in the developed world.

There are beggars, bad roads, unemployment, people living in the streets, but which developed country doesn’t have those problems? One thing I know for sure: Guyanese don’t work so hard as their fellow workers in the developed world.

Guyanese may not work so hard as their counterparts in the developed world, but Guyanese are hard working people; it doesn’t matter if they are Government workers or cleaners of the streets. What they have, they worked very hard for.

For Freddie Kissoon to ask how the PPP boys got their houses is an insult to those people, who battled the dictatorial PNC with their lives, jobs etc so that Guyana could be free. Why can’t they afford a house, like Kissoon? What Kissoon is implying is that all those guys, because they are from the PPP, they should not afford to live a decent life, like him. What are their faults? Don’t they work, like Freddie?

Mr. Kissoon, if there was no PNC, no one, including yourself, would have had to fight them in and out of the Government. If they were not there, the PPP would have continued in the Government, which they occupied for 28 years, and Guyana would have been classified as a developed country.

They were in there for 28 long years, destroying the country; so they will have to take all the criticisms that are bestowed upon them.

Karl Marx (a person whom Freddie despises) said that, “Those who do not observe the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them, first as a tragedy, then as a farce.”

The Guyanese people will have to be reminded, especially those who did not live in the PNC era, of the atrocity of the monstrous things they did to Guyana and the Guyanese people.
Jagessar Sukhraj

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