This display of selective amnesia borders on insanity

Feb 12, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is said that who the Gods want to destroy they first drive them mad. This is the case of Guyana and its ruling elites, clinging to every straw they hope to salvage themselves from the very political whirlpool they have created and have demonstrated that insanity has befallen them.
Firstly let’s begin with Mr. Benn Minster of Public Works. It is clear for the Guyanese public to see that he has been selective in his sledging ways and that his hammer has lost focus and like a barking canine, chasing wheels of running vehicles he is left standing and the vehicles have long gone past ignoring him.
The irony is not very difficult to assimilate; he is busy removing the very structures that the Ministry of culture is attempting to invigorate in their MASH programme, by way of their parapet beautification competition. Mayor Green wrote on this wanton stupidity in the city where the good bad and ugly are all the focus on Minister Benn’s hammer.
The people on the East Coast are now asking “whe de man with the hammer gone?” Some businesses have encumbrances on the East Coast Highway and it is in the public’s view. In fact the on entire railway embankment are places with enormous violation of the very code that Mr. Benn has a mandate to put right. Why it is that Mon Repose is receiving added attention while others are receiving no attention?
Secondly, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has treated the Guyanese public with utter contempt, an indication that a disorder is existent. In the pages of the newspapers a letter writer asked what is going on at the reserves of the Montrose Drainage Pump reserve and the many problems at Skeldon Factory. The Ministry chooses to reply to the Skeldon Factory issue and ignored the construction on the reserves of the Montrose Pump reserve. An important issue that has equally serious ramification is ignored. This display of selective amnesia borders on insanity if it has not surpassed it.
How can construction continue on an important drainage reserve and no answers are forthcoming from the Government? It has to have approval of the authorities and the Government ought to know. The silence displayed is indicative of the lunacy that has permeated the minds of those we have governing us. I ask that the Ministry of Agriculture tell us what is really going on at Montrose
Still on the MOA, the rabid and insensitive onslaught by men with warped intellect on Dr J. Bulkan clearly demonstrates the pinnacle of political psychosis that has befallen that Ministry, it is probably the only Ministry that does no wrong. Guyanese will be the judge on this. The uneasiness caused by Dr Bulkan’s very technical articles one would imagine would require equally technical responses rather than trivialities of what the Ministry perceives.
The most disturbing feature of the ministry’s diatribe was to label her unpatriotic. This is where the insanity gets uncontrollable in the Ministry. What act is greater of being labeled unpatriotic than having to knowingly allow the birth of your children in the USA while vying for high offices here.
Dr Bulkan is very capable of defending herself, how I wish she was a medical doctor for psychosis requires a different treatment.
The MOA seems to be blessed with resources that are infinite in supply; I know the Guyanese public has observed that the Minister has changed as many vehicles as the years he has served the Ministry.
Recently we were told that foreign export of lumber has dropped and local consumption has increased. Sugar production has dropped, so also have the many conservancies in this country that by the Minister’s own acknowledgement that there will be a reduction in planting of rice for the first crop. Now my question is, in 2005 the floods brought support of many kind including I believe computer models for Demerara Conservancy management. The MOA and NDIA need to give an account of how it managed the conservancy for the year 2009 resulting in the present chaos. We need to see the expenditure on the conservancies for 2009. At the back of Cane Grove there are many excavators working, what is it they are really doing? How would this low level affect the sugar and rice industry? Should we brace ourselves for a lull in production?
If this psychosis is not addressed then it’s not only the man with the hammer that would wreak havoc, but also the man with many vehicles and little water to manage.
God help us all!
Rohit Parmananad

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