Jagdeo’s administration is practicing old imperial attitudes with a passion

Dec 18, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
C. J. Weber once quipped, “History is properly nothing but a satire of mankind”. Beyond that, truthfully, history also repeats itself.
These were my thoughts when with other Guyanese, we noted how a massive gap exists between the salaries of the ‘big ones’ in the sugar, State sectors, and we, the ordinary non-government connected folks.
An ongoing concern throughout mankind’s existence has been the great disparities that exist in some societies.
What is amazing in Guyana, this situation is being superintended by a Party that boasts about its socialist policies in order to narrow the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. The PPP at a recent conference reiterated its socialist philosophy.
The PPP and the Jagdeo administration are practicing a horrible discrimination and old imperial attitudes with a passion.
As we celebrated our tenth year of Independence, the PNC government took over the Sugar Industry for a number of valid reasons, including putting an end to unreasonable super salaries for a few.
Both Forbes Burnham and Cheddi Jagan and those who fought for freedom must be turning in their graves to see how this PPP administration has allowed the clock to turn back.
But it is not only in the Sugar industry. What of the salaries and perks to those ‘advisors’ (sic), the cost of regular overseas trips by the Head of State and the capricious use of Lotto funds, where there is wanton misuse of State money.
For the benefit of our youth, I quote from FLSB on the night of May 25, 1976 in his address to the Nation in the National Park, it was a position supported by Dr. Jagan and the PPP.
“Now for Bookers which like a Colossus did bestride our country, our economy and our people’s lives for more than a century and a half
“Its continued existence in Guyana was incompatible with our national goals and pride, as well as with our economic thrust.
“When, therefore, that group saw fit to offer for consideration, the acquisition of its sugar interests, your Government decided to nationalise all the Booker assets in Guyana.
“There cannot be two governments in one State. There cannot be two purveyors of the economy of Guyana.
The present step had to he taken and it is fortuitously fortunate that it has coincided with the tenth anniversary of political Independence
“The Booker assets, excluding land and standing canes for which we cannot and will not pay have been valued at $102.5 million.
This includes stocks and will be subject to adjustment based on the actual position at midnight tonight What with certain liabilities to Government, and others undertaken by Government, the net payment to be made to the principals is approximately $70 million.”
President Burnham later noted, “Part of the debt to us, the descendants of slaves and indentured labourers, is being repaid”
The significance of these remarks must not be lost in this Nation.
For what reasons have we gone full circle, violating the work and principles for which our founding fathers fought, is beyond belief, violation by the Cabinet, and the hallowed privileged groups, all descendents of slaves and indentured labourers.
They now grant themselves salaries and outrageous conditions which our old colonial master would have been shy to implement.
Day after day we die for lack of free and adequate medical attention, others barely survive and must rely on handouts and remittances from overseas.
Hamilton Green, J. P

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