These barefaced people are incredible

May 29, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

If ever there was an incredible moment in politics, it was in Guyana with a lady named Gail Teixeira. But there is no need to pick on Ms. Teixeira, only. Her astonishing denial of science is replicated in her other colleagues spread over the power horizon of this country. Ms. Teixeira, Minister Ramsammy and Mr. Jagdeo’s attitude to reality is frightening but herein lies the tragedy of this nation. There is no way the people of this land are going to get even a modicum of good governance from their government, given this attitude.
We start with Teixeira. Shown the scientific evidence of what she told the UN Human Rights Council, to wit, that the burnt youth was compensated, she denied saying that the Government compensated the youth. She’s right. But she did use the word compensation.
Why? Here are the words that came out of the mouth of this lady who holds the position of presidential advisor on governance. “…the perpetrators have been brought to the court and have been charged and also compensation and counseling and medical treatment for the patient.” These words have become a scientific fact. They were recorded when they were spoken.
When a person is taped or filmed in a court proceeding, their words and action become a scientific fact. That is why technology invented the recorder and the camera.
For the past two weeks, Ms. Teixeira has been denying that she informed the UN about compensation for the tortured youth. She skips from one explanation to the other, her latest foray being that she used the word “compensation” in the context of the impending court trial.
This completely misses the reader of the transcript. Could someone advise Ms. Teixeira that it is better to resort to silence than to jump from one comical defence to the other? But here is where the leaders of the government we have in this land are incredible. After telling the UN about compensation, Ms. Teixeira returns to Guyana, holds a press conference and rejects compensation for the youth, telling the media that such an offer “might look as if we are trying to bribe the person.”
There is no other group of leaders in the world as foolish as what we have in this country. Compensation is an ancient policy so commonplace in human relations that we should classify Ms. Teixeira’s interpretation as appalling and unadulterated nonsense. The decent thing governments and large organisations do when they have grievously wronged an individual is to offer compensation.
This is standard practice throughout the world. How can any leader in a government tell her nation that if her government pays compensation to a tortured victim it can look like you are bribing the victim. Shouldn’t this woman be made to resign immediately?
She is not the only member of an incredible yet comical government. The manager of a business company in the US produced a correspondence printed on the letter-head of the Ministry of Health signed by that Minister in relation to a spy equipment. The owner of the business named Dr. Ramsammy.
We know Roger Khan ended up having a spy equipment. The store owner also said that a technician traveled to Guyana to instruct persons in the use of the equipment.
Dr. Ramsammy nonchalantly told the press that he has no knowledge of the entire episode from letter being written to purchase, to training, to use of the stuff.
This Minister just happily goes about his business. And finally, Mr. Incredible himself. He boasts that he has the opposition cornered. If they agree to an inquiry into Globe Trust, he will implement a probe into the fall of CLICO. Then the hunter became the hunted. Then the one who set out to corner his opponent got cornered.
The opposition said yes. They wanted both investigations. Mr. Incredible backed down. Mr. Incredible shouted that he was right about a soldier named David Clarke, in that he was involved in dubious activities while on anti-crime patrol in Buxton during the crime. Strange that Mr. Incredible didn’t and does not know about Roger Khan’s marauding activities in Buxton but was aware of who Clarke was.
As it turned out, from a courtroom in New York, Clarke was one of Khan’s underlings. Isn’t this comical? Mr. Incredible has knowledge of what the little ones were doing in Buxton but was totally unaware of Mr. Khan who was directing the little ones. The story of the incredible and the comical is so large, it can fill volumes.

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