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Mar 27, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

You wonder what can be in the eyes and on the faces of Mrs. Janet Jagan, others like Ashton Chase, Ralph Ramkarran, Philomena Shury, and yes, even Moses Nagamootoo and other PPP stalwarts, as they talk to you about the things they fought against in the seventies and eighties and the wrongs their own party perpetuate on this helpless nation .
Can Mrs. Jagan, Ashton Chase and the so–called fighters against Burnham’s rule actually look people in the eyes today?
Mrs. Jagan wrote in a published letter to the Stabroek News that she refused to attend further sessions of power-sharing between the PPP and the PNC in 1985 because Mr Burnham’s language was too course.
This is the same Mrs. Jagan that today remains silent in the face of some of the worst intransigencies in the exercise of power since Independence under Mrs. Jagan’s own protégé, Bharrat Jagdeo.
What is worse is that the population remains timid and sheepish while the Caribbean is being shamed at the re-invention of Forbes Burnham and Eric Gairy in Guyana.
This country has no future and will continue to be looked upon as a pariah by the world community because we seem destined to be a helpless people accepting all kinds of political nastiness by our rulers and we endure.
At the end of the 20th century, it was Burnham. At the beginning of the 21st century, it is Jagdeo. Will it ever end? Very, very few nations would have just sat silently and allowed its Prime Minister and President to go unpunished after the terrible accusations of mistreatment against his wife. Coupled with that is the knowledge of a President that there was no legal First Lady and he was happy to live inside that fiction. And guess what happens? Life goes on in Guyana.
The Government has moved on to more scandals and we as a people just let it be. So the law was broken over the Queens Atlantic concession. Mr. Yesu Persaud, a national icon, was insulted and the President moved on, and so did the nation
Next we come to the revelations of the so-called “First Lady.” The President chose not to reply to some of the most pungent accusations against him. Not even an address to the nation with clarifications.
The gentleman said; “I’m finished with that, period!” And he moved on, and the nation moved on.
Then came the CLICO scandal. Inside the CLICO tsunami was a mini-hurricane. Some person(s) – by now, observing the trend in the exercise of power, citizens must know the identity/identities – coerced or used incestuous connections to get NBS to buy out CLICO’s Berbice Bridge bonds. The total is $1.4 billion.
The venalities just do not stop. A falling company is seen as a good avenue for investment. Where in the world does that happens except in the most corrupt country in the world – Guyana.
Why were the bonds bought? Because the incestuous cabal that straddles the corridors of power and the underground economy wanted their monies back because CLICO drowned. So while pensioners and working people were wondering about their future, the incestuous cabal got their finances returned to them through the NBS buyout. Not one director has come forward to denounce this venality.
More shocking is that not even a one-line sentence has been issued by NBS which is a geological section of the confluence between power-wielders and wealthy friends. The President moved on, and so did the nation.
Then came Roger Khan’s confession. Interestingly, Khan’s guilty plea came months after the Government passed wire-tapping legislation.
The wire-tapping of Khan’s lawyer revealed that two ministers had an ongoing consultation network with Khan on the issues of violence.
This is not hearsay. These are not rumours picked up from a depressed community in south Georgetown. This is scientific evidence by the US security establishment which revealed that one serving diplomat and a current Cabinet Minister knew about Khan’s extra-judicial terrorism on this soil.
Here is the interesting part. The President told his press conference that Minister Robeson Benn works for him, the President. Here you have a Minister who works for the President that is named in a serious criminal case in the United States.
The President is unmoved. He suggested the police do its work. But he mentions nothing about the Minister that works for him. The President has moved on. The nation has moved on.
The venalities, perversities, immoralities continue. It is an avalanche of scandals in Guyana. But the PPP goes about its way. The President goes about his way. The Opposition goes about its way. The nation goes about its way. And life in Guyana goes on.

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