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Isaacs should take his own advice and remain silent
Dear Editor,
Donald Isaacs has proved the truth of the old saying which he quotes: “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and erase all doubt”, which he should have followed.
I refer to his letter in Kaieteur News of Saturday, February 28, 2009 captioned, presumably by the editor: “Rewriting history by blatantly fabricating events”.
It appears that Humphrey Charles is unable or unwilling to reply to my letter of 22/2/09: “Guyana decayed under the PNC, not PPP” as captioned by the editor.
Unable to respond to the blast of accurate and historical information contained in my letter, Donald Isaacs resorts to an attempt to ridicule, and apparently seeks to shift the goal posts.
It was the “new PNC” which sought, unsuccessfully, to separate Hoyte from Burnham to mislead its supporters and others. Every schoolboy knows that the PNC was led by Burnham, followed by Hoyte who became President in 1985 following Burnham’s death. Isaacs is advising me to read certain reports which most people read or heard on the media. The massive devaluation of the Guyana dollar was the inevitable outcome of the PNC Burnham/Hoyte policies.
Guyana today is designated as a middle-income country, and we have reduced considerably the US$2.1billion debt which we inherited from the PNC.
Although Isaacs is now asking me to read certain reports, he has not followed my advice to read the 2009 Budget Speech by Dr. Ashni Singh. He and others must stop their attempts to rewrite history to make the PNC look good to fool the people. “You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Is it fact or fiction, Isaacs, that the Burnham/Hoyte PNC massively rigged elections to stay in office? Wasn’t this the highest form of corruption?
John Da Silva
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