Latest update May 25th, 2026 12:35 AM
The leaders’ contempt for their own people
Two years ago, at an academic conference sponsored by the Guyana Historical Society, a group of students from the Bishops’ High School asked me to define one of the negative features of the Guyana Government that makes it a regime worse that when President Forbes Burnham ruled. I pointed to sexual misconduct.
I do not think that there is any ruling administration across the globe that has in its midst Ministers and high officials that are so prone to perverted engagement in sexual adventurism as what obtains in Guyana.
I believe that among the ruling cabal are many leading figures that are burdened with serious psychological problems in relation to sex. I am not talking about heterosexual love-making only, or the usual womanizing habits. I am speaking about sexual deviancies. It seems that sexual obsessions stalk the corridors of power.
In many countries around the world, there have been sexual indiscretions on the part of Ministers. But there is nothing nowhere near as what we see in Guyana .
Six years ago, late an evening or to put it another way, early in the morning at hours we refer to as uncivilized, at an ocean side hotel, there was a small party hosted by a notorious drug baron, since convicted in the US. At that forum ruling elites participated in indiscriminate sexual conduct with girls, some of whom were under eighteen. One of the most influential personalities in Government said to me for the first time on meeting him in 1999; “You don’t have a body to sex women, how you is manage?”
Sex is not the theme of this composition. I made mention of it in the context of what is to follow, and that is the contemptuous boldness of these elites to do what they want within this country and to this nation.
I repeat here what I wrote before which was first voiced by me openly at the office of this newspaper one evening. I sincerely cannot remember what the subject-matter was that triggered my anger but I know it had to do with my reaction to the “we can do what we want” behaviour of the cabal in charge of this sad country.
I turned to my Kaieteur News colleagues and told them that there will come a time soon under the PPP autocracy where the oligarchs will be at a party, dance, cocktail or some similar entertainment process and they will send their security detail to bring any young girl or young boy (in the case of the homosexuals) that they are interested in and no one, absolutely no one will intervene on the spot or afterwards because of fear.
The governing oligarchs do not care if the society is annoyed with them, ridicule them or laugh at them; they will do what they want. Two examples should suffice before I go to the main concern of this column. How can any sane citizen of this country not see the low instincts of these governors when they put a concrete office on the lawns of Castellani House? It was philistinism of the most canine kind. Look how huge Guyana is and the only place they could have chosen to locate a police office was on those lawns.
Secondly, dozens of suitable sites were available to Mr. Shyaam Nokta to hold his wedding reception. He chose the Convention Centre. It is my opinion that there are not many governments around the world that would tolerate the desecration of their international convention centres to hold a wedding party. What was obnoxious about this choice is that there were magnificent alternatives in Georgetown itself. What happened to all those handsome hotels that were built for World Cup cricket in 2007?
Someone looked at the Convention Centre and said; “I like that place, I will have it.” End of story!
I come now my main consideration – the current massive clean up for the leaders of South America that will be here next week. Why are they cleaning the pathways on which the visitors will travel? There is only one answer. They want those dignitaries to see the clean environment that Guyana possesses.
When these leaders look out their car windows, they will see canals without overgrown vegetation. They will notice streets without mountainous growth of grass. But isn’t this the way it should always be? How can any group of ruling elites be so barefaced to tell their subjects that they will only clean the trenches and canals when foreign leaders visit Guyana?
This display of contempt is unbelievable. There is indeed contempt that has no match elsewhere in the world.
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