“Livinguyana” should live again

Mar 05, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I would like to think that if “livinguyana.blogspot.com” were still alive, thousands here and abroad would rush to it daily on the internet. The reason is because it has now become known as an anti-government site because of the recent controversy.
People in and out of this country are fed up with the type of power they see being used; they want change. Many top PPP personnel do not like what is going on. These are not bad people. You have to talk with them and you would see that they feel helpless to speak out.
Yes, they want the PPP to remain in power. Yes, they think the PPP is the better party but they do not agree with many things that are happening. They wish their Government would not do these things.
How do I know this? I can’t call names. I will never do that. But I speak to some of these persons. I know the way they feel. I got a large eye-opener when I spoke to some highly placed PPP leaders after the third dictatorial ruling on the Vice-Chancellor’s contract in November 2007. Harsh words were said about that decision.
One strategically placed person said to me that the edict to cancel state advertisements with the Stabroek News was not a judgement of the PPP; that it was a terrible mistake that caused some concern among business people that were very helpful to the PPP over the long years.
There is a spouse of a PPP Minister who told me that if the PPP wins in 2011, it will be a government that will move away from policies that brought the bad publicity is it now getting.
All over Guyana and in the Diaspora, there are concerns that the PPP’s egregious record has made the Burnham years fade into oblivion. Many of you out there reading this column would not know who some of the people are that think that the Guyana Government at the moment is worse than Burnham’s PNC.
I am referring to Guyanese who were opposed to Burnham and the PNC and contributed to the weakening of the PNC. These are good, decent people from both the African and East Indian ethnic texture. They would tell me that they never imagined Guyana would come to what it is today.
The PPP leaders know they have lost touch, are unpopular and their supporters read the Kaieteur News and the Stabroek News and not the Guyana Times and Chronicle. They know that CN Sharma’s station is watched by PPP supporters every living day.
Few people would not know this but Mrs. Jagan has not penned a line of praise for Mr. Jagdeo in her columns since the last election. Mrs. Jagan never mentions Mr. Jagdeo’s name in her weekly column. Her favourite topics are in foreign affairs.
Last week, her interest lay in an appeal to the US to change its attitude to Cuba. What does that tell you? Any deeper probe would reveal that disappointment has stepped in. Far from praising Mr. Jagdeo, she takes subtle digs at him like arguing for the retirement age to be changed to sixty-five, denouncing torture by the security forces and lambasting those who withdrew advertisements from Stabroek News.
A person very close to Mrs. Jagan told me her heart was broken over one particular issue – uncontrollable corruption.
The blog, “livinguyana.blogspot.com” lost a priceless opportunity to educate Guyanese on the abuse of power. It lost a huge chance to create space for the eventual Velvet Revolution. It was a nasty site filled with nauseating effluvium. There was no question about it; the person who operated it had serious Freudian problems. That person certainly had an identity crisis.
The language was filed with hate. Amerindian people were called Buck fools. East Indians were referred as coolie dogs. Even the word “nigger” was used to denigrate African Guyanese that the poster(s) disliked. What was amazing was how this poster/these posters could criticize Mr. Jagdeo and his team when their morality was hardly impressive
Now that people know about this blog, it should be re-started maybe with a slight change of name, for example, “livingguyanese” and select credible people to post on it under their own titles. Guyanese are going to read it. They are not going to view the other blog with a similar name that is pro-government.
Pro-government views whether in blog form or in the newspaper or on television are not well patronized. For all the garlands that are placed on the necks of PPP leaders, those doing the garlanding do not look at NCN or read the Chronicle. As for the Guyana Times, does that still exist?

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