These are the truths of Guyana

Jun 29, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The PPP’s election campaign is in full swing. The latest action from the bandwagon is a glaring campaign of historical distortion and political barefacedness from Mr. Hydar Ally in the letter pages of last Saturday’s edition of this newspaper.
It is important for those who want to see the PPP get voted out of office to reply to these deceitful and deceptive intonations of PPP leaders because PPP politicians are going to take these things they write and share them out at GAWU seminars and PPP bottom house meetings.
When these fictions are confronted, people will read them and will be better prepared to chase the PPP liars out of their villages.
Ally’s letter is entitled, “Some truths that are often ignored by opposition politicians.” Ally’s title is both comical and irritating. The group of people in this country from the fifties up to this moment who wouldn’t recognise the truth even if it hits them like a nuclear weapon is the PPP.
Let us provide Mr. Ally and the would-be bottom house attendees with the real truths of Guyana. To do so we have to offer readers what Ally sees as his truths. We will skip the section of his letter in which he exclaimed that it was the PPP that fought against colonialism and for the right to vote. This is the usual boring asininities from PPP leaders that no one takes seriously.
Ally’s truths consist of the following. (1) – the PPP has transformed Guyana into a country where there is full parliamentary democracy. (2)- the country’s social and physical infrastructure has been overhauled. (3) – there is a better quality of life for the Guyanese people. (4) – there is respect for the rule of law.
None of these four statements are truths. They are lies! A published rebuttal is necessary so that when young people are approached by PPP campaigners, these young Guyanese can protect their minds against these poisonous fictions.
The response to Mr. Ally’s so-called truths must be prefaced with two gargantuan facts. The first is that the PPP has chalked up 18 years in power. Secondly, billions of American dollars have poured into the PPP Government in aid and grants, a tiny fraction of which the PNC under Burnham never had the opportunity to get after 1970.
Here now are the truths of Guyana. During the rule of the PNC, water, electricity and tertiary education were free. After 18 years and billions of dollars in aid we have to pay for water and tertiary education since the PPP came to power. Under the PPP, 24 of the 27 sewage stations broke down recently sending filth on to the floor of citizens who had to flush their toilets.
Two Kaieteur News staffers, Dale Andrews and Rustum Seegopaul, and I watched as an electrical post sent fire raging down its wires threatening a school at Charles and Sussex Streets and nearby buildings while the firemen waited in vain for the GPL crew to come and cut off the electricity supply even though the power company was contacted several times.
The GPL defective system has devastated more citizens’ homes in one year than the entire period of Forbes Burnham’s rule with no compensation whatsoever. This is eighteen years after the PPP came to power with billions of American dollars in aid. Under Burnham, lights were free. Now we pay for it, we don’t get it and our kilowatt cost is the most expensive in the entire area of South and North Americas and the Caribbean. After 18 years in power and billions of dollars in aid, Guyana’s public schools lack furniture and teachers and UG is dying.
The Commonwealth’s consultant on parliamentary democracy, Sir Paul Reeves, came to Guyana and submitted a report that told a sordid story of Parliament and its subordination to the Executive branch of Government. There is full democracy in Guyana only that we do not have what other democracies have – radio stations, the Freedom of Information Act, Human Rights Commission, Ombudsman etc.
Under the PNC, Government Ministers were dismissed or placed before the courts for wrongdoings. A favourite hobby of the PPP bigwigs is sexual violence. The little fascists can rape any man, woman or child they want to and not even a scolding they get.
Not even under Stalin and Hitler would such sexual madness be allowed to happen. As for the rule of law, that broke down since 2002 and the drug barons were allowed by the little fascists to share state power. These are some of the truths of Guyana.

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