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The present is more scary than the past

Sep 30, 2011 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
Like President Jagdeo, Harry Gill, in his KN September 17, 2011 letter, instructs young people to remember the past, and possibly stay there. In fact he stated; “Youths do not know what it was like to stand in long lines every day for bread, a pound of flour, and toilet paper”.
Yes, Mr. Gill they do not know, since they are preoccupied with the harsher realities of now. What they experience today is a thousand times worse than those bread lines, to which you refer. These young people have witness your PPP/C sanctioned death squads roving Guyana; the squads that slaughtered and slew many of their loved ones.
Many of these youths marched the streets and protested when their fellow University of Guyana student, and friend, Yohance Douglas was slain on Sheriff Street. They know young Gray who was shot in the mouth during that same incident.
They know 14-year-old Tryon Thomas who was brutally tortured, in the groin area, by PPP/C police. They saw the scars of torture on the bodies of Sumner, Jones et al; they know that the PPP/C labeled torture mere ’roughing-up’.
These young people feel the pressures of the outrageous 16 per cent VAT, many of them look at their parents and grandparents forego necessities and prescribed medication because of this tax.
They have been robbed by both the criminals who lurk every street corner, and the executive thieves who rape the public treasury daily. They experience the harsh realities of joblessness, corruption, execution styled killings, discrimination, and victimization. They see the rule of law observed in the breach almost daily, as executive lawlessness parades the land.
Many of them who work in public offices live the daily pressures exerted on them by the political bosses, who demand that they become a member of the PPP/C or its youth arm in order to remain in the job or be rewarded.
Those who fail to comply know the results! It is BIG TIME PRESSURE! Guyana’s youths are not blinded to the fact that media censoring in Guyana is a big political game, where the political bosses of the day ensure that those in the media who speak out against it must be singled out for severe consequences.
They see the assault on Kaieteur News, the ongoing harassment of C.N. Sharma, Gordon Moseley’s ban from anything that has to do with Jagdeo, Office of the President and State House.
The know that the Broadcast Legislation though passed in the National Assembly will not become law now because the President feels that the media must be even more muzzled during this election year.
And, Mr. Gill, they are following the ongoing High Court case of Kaieteur News Columnist Freddie Kissoon and Bharrat Jagdeo, for Freddie speaking out against President Jagdeo and the PPP/C’s apparent institutionalized policy of discrimination, among other things.
These realities of present day Guyana are what youths are wrestling with daily. Guyana’s youth are too concerned about their current deplorable socio-economic situation, and so can care less to live in ’your past’.
The demand made, by Harry Gill, Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP/C’s on Guyana’s youths to ignore their present circumstances and dwell in the past is selfish, insensitive, disrespectful, unconscionable, wicked, and hypocritical.
Lurlene Nestor

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