Latest update June 16th, 2026 12:40 AM
There are exciting times ahead
Dear Editor,
I agree fully with your “Peeping Tom” article regarding the excessive rewards offered to the office of the current President.
The official opposition did little to stop the bill from passing. As an active supporter of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), I was appalled at the recent legislation passed by the PPP in the House of Parliament to give Bharrat Jagdeo a lifestyle, far above what the Guyanese people can afford.
This is a young man who is strong and healthy and is not prepared to earn a living, whilst he is able to do so. What sort of a legacy will he leave?
The Jagans will certainly be turning in the air. I guess they were expecting this to happen that was why they choose to be cremated.
One can understand, a capitalist party giving its leader such a lavish lifestyle after he would have retired, but not coming from a party that takes pride to call itself Marxist-Leninist. No other president enjoyed this privilege, not even the dictator, Forbes Burnham.
I am staggered by the full support given by the members of the PPP.
There has been no protest and even a silent wink by such ardent followers of the leaders of the PPP, Cheddi and Janet Jagan.
Not a sound from Moses Nagamooto, Clement Rohee, Donald Ramoutar or Gail Texiera.
Most of us have always thought that these people are not serious anyway and they have proven what they stand for – corruption, extravagance and abuse of power. Funny enough, they have set the seed for their own destruction.
Come the next General Elections this would be the greatest weapon against them. Where would they hide? Nagamooto tells us – in private – that his time will come, but when?
This was the final straw for me and many of my relatives and friends.
We will not support the PPP again. We had sincerely believed that the Jagans really cared for the working people of Guyana. Cheddi Jagan led by example. He was an honest person, who lived a simple life.
He was a humble man. I wondered why Jagdeo said at the ceremony, where the Jagans’s home was given to charity, that the Jagans were “simple and humble people”.
Did he know what he was really saying at the time or does he think he could fool us by his silly antics.
There is the thought that Indian people will always support the PPP, regardless.
That is no longer true – as the events to come will show. There are exciting times ahead.
Satdeo Singh
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