You just laugh at these fools

Nov 09, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

You just laugh at the fools that administer this country. They rant and rave about the commentaries published on their incompetence as if what is written and said about their ignorance, asininity and incompetence is untrue. Then you prove them right and they look like clowns in the eyes of the nation.
A medical technician at the Georgetown Public Hospital told me an interesting story. He said that he sat next to a group of East Indian businessmen who were bad-mouthing the Government, including those at the top of the pyramid. The event was a cricket match at the Providence Stadium. Then one of the big kings passed by and a photo opportunity was made use of.
What does it tell you – not every smile is genuine. The little dictators believe that people are enarmoured with them when they tour the country and receive huge smiles from the Guyanese people. People do not like them. They know that they are corrupt and are abusers of power. Most of all, they know that these clowns are incompetent.
At this very time last year, they were regaling the nation with statements of the end of blackouts. This was because they brought two second-hand Wartsila engines from Suriname and believed that would have ended GPL’s woes.
In fact, they told the Guyanese people that the engines were brand new imports from Finland. They were not.
For this reason, until they are pressured they will not enact the Freedom of Information Act. Roger Luncheon hinted it will take a long time to come because the technical details are vast. This was a way of saying don’t expect it too quickly. And too quickly means a long, long time from now. At the time of the Wartsila triumph, I responded with a column warning the Guyanese people that they were being conned; that the government is nowhere near to surmounting the electricity dilemma.
So who was right? After spending money on a cricket stadium, Carifesta and now an Olympic-size swimming poll, the chief micro-manager tells the Guyanese people that he needs $20M American to fix GPL. After 18 years in power with hundreds of billions of dollars at their disposal, this country will have to endure daily blackouts on an indefinite basis.
These are the very people who go all over Guyana promising a saccharine future and criticizing columnists and private newspapers for running them down. But their failed legacies and pathological incompetence are as easy to see as the grass we walk on.
Last month, I was coming out of the Bourda Market when a married couple in their mid-thirties, met me and complained that the Carifesta Secretariat owes them just over a million dollars.
This is a small business couple naive enough to trust the government. People trust their government to pay them for their services. I confessed that there was nothing I could do for them but I did tell them that they were not alone. Carifesta planners have not paid dozens and dozens of Guyanese who were patriotic and who offered their service and their products.
Some of us know the rulers who mismanage the affairs of this nation. I met my friend Barrington Braithwaite a month before Carifesta and warned him not to participate because payment he will not get. I wrote about this incident twice before on this page.
Do you know how many drivers have not been paid for overtime service as chauffeurs for the little dictators? These drivers just leave in disgust never ever to collect for their labour.
We are not talking about a businessman who robs his employees but the State itself. I met one of these dictators while shopping at the Bourda Green one afternoon and asked why her chauffeur wasn’t paid his overtime.
I knew the driver very well and he told me that repeated requests fell on deaf ears. Her explanation was downright stupid. Readers would not believe what came out of her mouth — the payment was deliberately stalled by the public servants who are PNC and want to weaken the Government.
Shouldn’t you laugh at these people? Everything they say is so comical that the nation has lost respect for them. Here are two facetious moments. We were told that Guyana has one of the best constitutions in the world in terms of the government consulting with the population.
Then we heard that Guyana is way ahead of other countries in the hemisphere in terms of rights and freedoms. Why do they say such foolish things? Maybe it’s in their nature.

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