A family tree that will shock all Guyana

Jan 11, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

A group of patriotic Guyanese who after long and deep reflection and without ambiguity and reservation have concluded that the immoralities, venalities and social decay of the PPP Government have exceeded the Burnham Government, is about to engage in a process that will shock this entire country, Guyanese abroad, the Caribbean community of which Guyana is a part and no doubt the powerful embassies that bring in a sizeable percentage of this country’s income.

It is called, the PPP’s family tree. It is the research into the governmental or state occupations held by the PPP family tree and its extended members. The research will distinguish between occupation and remuneration. The latter needs explanation. There exists a situation where a PPP leader’s child does not work for the state but creates a company that does business with the state.

The state’s resources then are his/her main income because lucrative contracts are awarded. To be clear, there are two kinds of incestuousness – high-paying jobs within the public sector and governmental contracts in all types of fields to company owners.

This country will receive information about the worst forms of party domination that maybe does not exist in any other country in the world, not even in the most brutal dictatorships or in failed states. When this publication comes out it will be a description of party paramountcy in its most pathological forms.

This was a social degeneracy I touched on more than seven years ago. Information on this kind of political immorality I offered on this page more than seven years ago. I remember remarking on the status of Elvin MC David’s wife.

At the time, Mc David was the second or the third most powerful figure in the Government of President Forbes Burnham. Mc David’s wife was an ordinary school teacher at St. Roses High School on Church Street. I saw her waiting for bus transport several times outside Lee’s Funeral Parlour on Camp Street.

About six years ago (I think so), Donald Ramotar replied in the Kaieteur News to one of my articles on the relentless procurement of high-status, high-paying jobs by the PPP family tree. Mr. Ramotar contended that the children of PPP leaders were citizens like all others and should not be discriminated against.

I replied arguing that this was not the point of my contention. My thesis is still valid. My point was that these family trees members were getting high-paying jobs whose finance came from international contracts when they didn’t have the necessary experience and qualifications.

Take just one example for now. About four years ago, I met Dr. Nanda Gopaul at Celina’s Atlantic Resort and told him I had a friend who had graduated from UG’s Faculty of Technology and was in need of a job. Dr. Gopaul arranged one for him at a starting salary of $50, 000 monthly. This was what the holder of an engineering degree was getting as a starting salary.

My friend had a colleague from the same class with the same degree who graduated at

the same time but had already landed a placement. He was on an international contract. Two things you need to know about this episode. My friend had higher grades than him.

And the lucky young man is the son of one of the PPP’s leading kings. I could go on to give you countless examples of these anomalies. How a new government is going to deal with the ubiquitous presence of the family tree in Guyana will be absorbing and intriguing.

If a new government is in place in 2011, it will make headlines the world over if it has to remove political appointments in the public service and cancel political contracts with incestuous companies founded just to get state funds.

We are talking about thousands, not hundreds, but thousands of spouses, children, cousins, aunts, uncles and relatives who are milking public coffers. One of the leading Caribbean journalists told me last year that if the PPP loses power in 2011 it will not bother because the family tree already owns Guyana.

This is no exaggeration, it does. The houses and mansions are so stupendous in some of the best real estate suburbs that Forbes Burnham and his dead colleagues are turning in their graves every second of the day.

If you have information on the omnipotence and ubiquity of the family tree please send it to me. Be careful! Some family tree members don’t have the same last name as the case with a Minister and his brother. God help this tragic nation!

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