How the PPP underdeveloped Guyana

Oct 23, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The leader of Guyana’s largest and predominantly Indian labour union Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) is Indian. He is also a PPP Parliamentarian, and an Executive/Central Committee member of the PPP, and a director of GuySuCo Board. No where else in the enlightened world are union and management one and the same. The union leader cannot be an honest broker for the bargaining unit when he owes his livelihood and status to management via the Jagdeo administration.
It would be inimical to his interest to do anything other than what the PPP/Jagdeo administration dictates. My father spent his entire career working in the sugar industry and it pains me to see that LBI and other estates have to go on strike because this poor facsimile of a government subjugates the very people and industry they need the most.
The rank and file employees have allowed management to become their representative on labour issues; the same management that refuses to pay them their true worth. Put another way, this is like putting the fox to guard the hen-house; the fox will always look out for his interest at the expense of the hen because that’s what a fox does.
This naked and incestuous display of party domination over the country’s landscape is uniquely Guyanese and PPP perfected. The ordinary Indian will continue to suffer at the hands of their beloved PPP government even as their legs are cut out from under them.
Walter Rodney eloquently illustrated in his seminal piece, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”; the same can be said for the PPP after 17 years, “How the PPP Underdeveloped Guyana” by using race as a weapon to dominate all spheres of life that Government controls.
Eighty-three percent of all management positions, political appointees and or government contracts go to supporters. More often than not, in cases where Blacks hold management positions, they do so in an acting capacity until they retire or are replaced by a PPP supporter. Along with withholding of funds from Critchlow Labour College; the Ministry of Education is one of the most glaring examples of this sinister policy. When the poor are left with no food, no job, no educational opportunities and no hope, it sets the stage for resentment and breakdown of law and order.
Show me your company and I will tell you who you are, is a global truism. The flying beggar finally weighed in on the McCoy sexual allegation imbroglio and spoke but said nothing. How insulting and disingenuous when he stated in the press that he had not listened to the tape recording; this is called plausible denialability.
I suppose to expect anything more from someone who has yet to level with the nation about his fictional marriage would be asking for too much. The long and tawdry list of those around him that have been implicated, committed or associated with all manner of scams, crimes and perversities glaringly exposes a necessary ingredient in all leaders; judgment.
This president is politically tone deaf. At a time when he should be cognizant of the message he sends, he riffs in a juvenile manner to a male journalist referring to another male journalist, when asked about engaging them on several issues “I saw the two of you staring at each other in a very loving way in the press conference…” This comment comes on the heels of the allegations of one of his close male confidante and advisor allegedly solicited sex from an underage male. The micro-manager is not only presiding over a criminalized state, but over Sodom and Gomorrah.
Nigel Jason

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