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How can any government survive this ocean of scandal?

Aug 23, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The Kaieteur News has given the police, the Government and the PPP the thing they have been asking for ever since the pathology of corruption began shortly after the PPP won the 1992 elections. That thing is proof. On the front page of this paper’s edition for August 20, 2009, are photographs of a pump and engine installed at Stanleytown that cost taxpayers $61million. The Kaieteur News found out that the make and model of the two items are going for $11million in Florida. This is unbridled, naked, abominable misuse of funds by Dr. Jagan’s protégés. This is what Cheddi Jagan left us?
When Transparency International labeled this country as one in which corruption in official circles was extensive, the ruling cabal called it perception. Incompetence is at work and this incompetence will humiliate and embarrass the ruling PPP during the election campaign next year (the campaign has already begun with Vishnu Bisram writing daily pro-PPP personalized attacks on me in the Chronicle; paid picketers from Tiger Bay protesting outside Ramjattan’s office; and the embrace of the PPP’s propaganda machine by returnee from the US, Dr. Randy Persaud). I only read the Chronicle online and haven’t done so this week.
I read Mayor Green’s letter in which he cited Bisram’s bile. I went and read them and we will see which media house will continue to publish this man’s future “polls” done for the PPP after reading his fanatical PPP propaganda in the Chronicle in which he referred to Kwame McCoy as his political brother.
I have been told that Dr. Randy Persaud is doing a daily column for the Chronicle. I checked them and found out that they were indistinguishable from the emanations of Dr. Prem Misir. In fact in one of his pieces, Persaud, the new kid on the block, names me as his friend. He had to be cynical. My friends have always been people who stood against dictatorship and the present Government of Guyana is the worst dictatorship this country and the Caribbean have produced, outdoing the immoralities and venalities of the Burnham autocracy by millions of miles.
So the campaign for 2011 has been started by both New Garden Street (OP) and Robb Street (Freedom House). The tempo is going to pick up because a no-nonsense movement is gestating inside the PNC that will invoke the powers of Macbeth’s witches and you know what that means. One only has to listen to what this quiet, diplomatic PNC leader, Winston Murray told the Georgetown district meeting of the PNC about a week ago. He said the Government has shown “eye pass’ to the PNC and it is time the PNC supporters take to the streets. And you know what that means – “mo pressha, real pressha.”
So the campaign of New Garden Street and Robb Street will now have to confront the relentless pressure that will come from a new PNC whether Corbin likes it or not. When you hear the emotions in Murray’s voice then you know the PNC has said; “enough is enough.”
Let us get back to how the cancer of incompetence will boomerang on the ruling cabal. They were shouting for joy that the New York-based human rights organization, Freedom House, placed Guyana as number 30 in terms of countries observing press freedom. That report was for the second half of 2007 and the last half of 2008. When the backlash comes for the last half of 2009 and early 2010, the embarrassment will be enormous.
More embarrassment will follow when Transparency International (TI), at the end of 2009, issues it worldwide report. The Kaieteur News is read by TI researchers. The proof has been supplied by this newspaper. TI is internationally respected as Freedom House in New York is. It can easily be anticipated that TI will cite a case of the rising crescendo of corruption in Guyana. Since its last report, corruption has become higher than the place that rises hundreds of miles above sea level and that I recommend as the home for Kwame McCoy, Monkey Mountain.
Their spin doctors, including the new arrival, “my friend,” who has taken up residency at the Chronicle, may not be able to spin at all. But can this Government survive the verdict against Robert Simels? Will the American Government allow itself to do business as usual with a government that had close connections with one of the Caribbean’s largest drug traffickers who has confessed to the Justice Department what he did in Guyana? After the Roger Khan sentencing, the Americans will turn their attention to a Government here in the Caribbean that has long self-destructed. Its moment of demise has arrived.

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