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Yes, I predicted correctly what banana republic rulers will say!

Jul 13, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

My column for Wednesday, July 7 was a prediction of what our authoritarian leaders will tell their audience when they are invited to speak at the official ceremony to mark the opening of the corporate head office of GBTI which sits next to the Atlantic Ocean in Kingston.
Here is what I wrote; “It is so easy to anticipate dictators because their lines are recurring …dictators say the same thing over and over again …when the GBTI puts on its magnificent ceremony…any school boy can guess what the dictators will say…the private media will become the Anti-Christ … it will be the story of the old line – development is taking place, Guyana is making gigantic strides but scriptwriters of hate in the private media paint a canvas of Guyana drowning in the miasma of failure.”
My words were published on Wednesday. Here is President Jagdeo addressing a section of Linden residents on Friday as reported in the Stabroek News of Saturday, July 10, last.
“Jagdeo referred to five known contributors to the newspapers as ‘some bitter old people’ whose intentions are to take the country back to the past. He said that they have lived their lives and should now move on and give young people a break.”
Stabroek News quotes Jagdeo directly as telling his listeners; “Everyday they in the newspapers with some old story, some sour story, all kinds of stuff…and half of them are totally useless.”
It is so easy to predict dictators as I wrote on Wednesday. And I will remind readers by having that Wednesday issue republished the day after GBTI holds its ceremony (whenever that it) because readers will see how easy it is to guess what oligarchic rulers say when they are at official events.
The main weakness in their arsenal is that they cannot point to their accomplishments. Mr. Jagdeo, in particular, is on this stuck record of the private media creating mischief. He will no doubt repeat it wherever he goes but never in those outpouring from now until he leaves the presidency (and there are other PPP leaders who will definitely see to that), will he offer his listeners examples of the “sour” things “these old people” write in the private media.
Of course, “these old people” and their “sour stories” will have more salvoes to fire and will definitely be encouraged by new developments. Before he went to Linden to repeat this sermon about the private media, some “sour” news came from quarters that are not known creators of mischief against the Government.
The American Government accused the Guyana Government of not doing enough to stem trafficking in people, and gave it a bad rating.  The internationally respected organisation in London that studies the global economy, Economic Intelligence Unit, has reported what all (yes, all) Guyanese knew since 2006 after the Great Floods of 2005. The oligarchs are manipulating statistics to prove growth rates that haven’t occurred.
Then the outgoing British High Commissioner told the media that Guyana’s racial divide hinders its development. Take note that Guyana has been under PPP rule for 18 years and Mr. Jagdeo is into eleven years of rule.
Just before Mr. Jagdeo made his trip to Linden, the CEO of Guysuco resigned after less than a year on the job. Are these developments the creation of mischief-makers? If they are that is good news because the opposition should feel elevated that it has sound backing from well-placed international friends. With friends like these, the opposition is bound to win the next general election.
Of course while Mr. Jagdeo was in Linden repeating his old line, Randy Persaud, the new propaganda star packed his things and left Guyana.  Like the Guysuco CEO, Randy wasn’t in the job for a year. Why did Persaud leave? This news was broken on Friday. At the time of writing, Randy who writes so much, hasn’t even penned a single line of explanation.
After President Jagdeo’s speech in the bauxite town, a KN columnist, Stella Ramsaroop, will now be added to the list of the five old people.
That will be five old men and an old lady. Stella wondered in her last Sunday column how President Jagdeo could say that the establishment of a Marriott Hotel will be good for tourism when tourists visit a country for reasons other than a five-star hotel to stay in.
Now it would be bizarre, macabre, totally eerie for anyone to label a pretty woman in her early forties, like Stella Ramsaroop, an old lady. But then again, oligarchs say anything that comes to their mouths.

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