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A case of fooling supporters

Dec 08, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
After reading the poor excuse from Khemraj Ramjattan on Cathy Hughes’s association with Synergy, as published on 6/12/2010 (Cathy Hughes’ affiliation with Synergy Holding no conflict of interest) I was forced to say “What’s new with the AFC.” Ramjattan says that if the AFC wins the government Cathy “will be asked to recuse” herself. If the AFC wins this will never happen because the AFC will find a reason to say why she must stay.
Surprise! Surprise! Who the AFC think they are fooling? But then again can you blame them for trying another trick and pushing their luck again since they have done it over and over again and gotten away with it. Many have given these rogues a free past, ignoring their hazardous conducts. They have succeeded in putting a spanking new meaning on “new politics.”
Cathy Hughes’s public relations consultancy with Fip Motilall is not built on truth. Her firm for the right price is selling an image to the public that is full of lies, which she knows but doesn’t care. As the papers rightly reported, she sat next to Fip and heard him lie that his company has seven years experience in road building, knowing full well it is not so. Fip is getting tens of millions of US dollars to build something he knows nothing about and which taxpayers have to repay.
I wonder what Emile Mervin, one of the most admired and fiercest critics of this deal and other political rascality, will say about Cathy’s association and Khemraj’s excuse.
This party in all its roughish behaviour, underhand dealings and failure to represent the voters still thinks that it can manage to pull wool over the people’s eyes. For the AFC anything it does is right, including its members unethically occupying the seats of the WPA, PPP and PNC when they formed the party, drawing parliamentary salaries, getting their utilities bills paid by the taxpayers and driving duty free vehicles at the taxpayers’ expense.
The kingdom they built and call a political party then anointed Raphael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan as the number one and two is called democracy and a gentleman’s agreement. Even the Queen of England cannot get away with this.
The use of parliament to give their friends income and perks and not to serve the people as they explained with the selection of Chantelle Smith and the sidelining of Gaumattie Singh is alright by their standards and they expect us to accept it.
Sheila Holder accepting to be prime ministerial candidate and give it back to Raphael Trotman when he finishes his soul searching is also acceptable by them and the electorate must accept it.
Putting up hands like children in a classroom and ‘voting’ for the presidential nominee who watches you like Jim Jones watched over his congregation is called 21st century politics and acceptable.
The greatest freak show was the party’s epiphany that took the members in front of the Georgetown Public Hospital with pickets in their hands which they called public activism for shame of calling it protest after ridiculing protest since the formation of the AFC.
The AFC vote in tandem with the PPP but think they can lie to the people that they are concerned about the PPP poor governance.
If the papers dig deeper and people look keener there will get more shocking stories. If it was not what the founders saw as easy pickings to get duty free vehicles, money on taxpayers’ hard labour, the opportunity to use their positions to leverage deals and live their fantasy as society’s blue blood, the party would not be in existence!
Victor Anthony

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