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Minister Rodrigues seems to be operating outside her league

Jun 29, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

I have seen on television Minister Carolyn Rodrigues speaking on her interaction with her Barbados counterpart. I have read the Minister’s statement that deportees will be afforded an opportunity to testify at her Ministry. What purpose would this serve?

The fact of the matter is that Guyanese being deported in contravention of the principle those individuals have a right to be heard. Barbados is so contemptuous of Guyanese that it treats Guyanese including our Foreign Minister and President as if we are all simpletons.

Reading reports of the deportees having been traumatised by the Gestapo and Fascist behaviour of the Barbados authorities our government subjects them to further humiliation and degradation on arrival here.

Only in countries which have contempt for the rule of law would authorities visit the homes of foreigners in the early hours of the day and bundle them out of the country?

A more astute foreign minister would have asked her counterpart why the individuals who were deported were not afforded an opportunity to be heard before a properly constituted forum or tribunal. A more assertive administration would have rejected the contention that these odious and repugnant techniques were used without the approval of Thompson and his clique.

Guyana should not have an alliance with any country that embraces Gestapo methods. Guyanese of character should boycott all things Barbadian and all visits to Barbados for the time being. There can and will be no integration and any individual who believes that will ever be achieved has his feet firmly planted in the clouds.

Guyanese should use the impending arrival of the English born Thompson to demonstrate in a meaningful way their outrage and revulsion of his conduct and presence here.

I am amazed that Thompson having adumbrated his policy that Jagdeo would ignore utterances of Guyanese and give credence to Thompson’s version that this Hitlerite behaviour is not taking place. I am also amazed that Barbados which formerly had a tradition for observing the rule of law could bundle individuals out of its country without affording them an opportunity to face an independent tribunal.

Minister Rodrigues seems to be operating outside her league and has not risen to the challenge. One wonders what possible benefit accrues to Guyana from her holding the portfolio of Foreign affairs.

Ms Carolyn Rodrigues could be redeployed to be an Adviser to the President on Low Carbon Strategies and her role as Foreign Minister be assumed by the President who has displayed a penchant for globe-trotting.

Walter Ramsahoye

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