We should forgive, but only fools forget

Sep 25, 2010 Letters

The Editor,
As British troops landed on our wharves in 1953, a PPP Minister quipped, “This confounded nonsense must stop.”
For now, here are a few things that must stop. The millions being spent by Government on these dance hall artistes designed to distract and disconnect our unsuspecting youths from reality and moral upliftment.
The abuse and deception of workers by the new elite trade union leader one, Mr. Carvil Duncan, he is Vice President of the GNIC Board of Directors, but also, represents the workers through GLU, believe it or not, forget the sham of shares – this well connected “Unionist” favoured by the PPP is now a member of the Public Service Commission, member of the Ethnic Relation Commission, member of the Guyana Power and Light and Chairman of the Tender Board etc.
Typical is his deception on City Hall workers. This GLU leader knows that the M&CC can only pay workers if we are paid our taxes, the Government that supports him, withholds. But, not a word from him to chide the Government and its agencies for with holding hundreds of millions due to us.
The swimming pool cost has grown from $316 million to $455 million, but why make a fuss, this is now standard practice. The President tells some of us to forget.
Yes, forget that the Olympic size swimming pool built during the PNC regime cost taxpayers a mere $1 million.
All the tiles used in the Castellani Swimming Pool were locally produced from our own clay – self-reliance in action, not propaganda and talk.
Yes, forget that after so many years, and advanced technology, we are building a swimming pool with tiles imported by friends – who benefits? We can forget if we are told the whole truth.
Have we had a public enquiry into the Stanleytown engine and pump scandal? Eleven million dollars value taxpayers’ pay $53 million. Yes – Buxton forget the past.
A truthful explanation as to why the Berbice River Bridge was not constructed from Ithaca to Sisters. This would have cut the cost by more than one half and, therefore, the cost to cross. Was it because the two villages are populated by Afro Guyanese? We need the truth.
I suppose when a high powered team visits – Ithaca or Sisters, they will be told to forget this economic deprivation, by building near the mouth of the Berbice River.
In 2000, the President promised to erect a monument to honour the martyrs of the 1823 slave uprising, hundreds of our African Slave ancestors were executed and their heads struck on poles around the Parade Ground (now Independence Park).
When next His Excellency speaks to an African-base group, with a battalion of highly paid Office of the President staff — he will tell them to forget this undertaking.
I am copying this to all political parties, ACDA, Pan African Movement, Manumitted Descendants of Africans, and University of Guyana, hoping that they too demand truthful answers.
We should forgive, but only fools forget.
This confounded nonsense must stop.
Hamilton Green J. P.

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