THE NEW CARPET BAGGERS

Oct 03, 2011 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

And everyone thought that the former Executive President of Guyana, Forbes Burnham, was a cunning old fox. Wrong! The PPP regime is making him look like a boy scout with their conniving ways!
Burnham had a way of manipulating people, including the former General Secretary of the PPP, Cheddi Jagan. For twenty years, he had Cheddi on a leash.
Cheddi languished in the political wilderness for twenty years as Burnham played trick after trick on him.
Burnham was also successful in luring many of Cheddi’s top lieutenants away from that party and into his camp. One of Cheddi’s deputies left him and became a leading light within the PNC. Burnham had Cheddi’s number and dialed it regularly, outwitting his political rivals with his cunning and often devious trickery.
He even got the better of the WPA, being successful in planting agents within their party and having someone win the confidence of Rodney. After Rodney’s death, Burnham outwitted the remnants of the party so much so that even though the WPA considered Burnham illegitimate, their leaders turned up at his funeral to show their regards.
Burnham was cunning and conniving to the end. Even when he died he had people fooled. Many thought that he was under anesthesia, not realizing that he had passed to the Great Beyond, while many were waiting for him to come out of his surgery.
And when the Guyanese people thought they can bury him, the man was dug up, flown to Russia and brought back as a preserved mummy.
Burnham was as astute they claim, but in the present PPP administration, he has met his match. He is no class for these guys that are now in power. They have made him look like an apprentice.
They now have the PNCR on a leash. The PPP has trapped the PNCR. They have them locked down and in a quandary. They have made rings around the PNCR. The PPP has neutralized the PNCR. The same PPP government once came under pressure from a certain Trade Union. That Trade Union now can hardly mount a serious challenge on behalf of its workers who are forced to accept what is thrown at them.
The trade union movement once considered itself a force. Today they are still barking. But they have no bite at all, none.
The PPP government has outmaneuvered and outfoxed its political rivals. It has cast a web around some of the senior operatives of the main opposition party, so much so that the party has to begin to investigate its own comrades’ links with the PPP, rather than devoting all its energies towards trying to win the elections.
The full list of those persons who have been caught up in the PPP’s connivance is not yet known. But it is clear that quite a few have fallen victim to the government’s trickery.
The art of trickery is also making some comrades very rich indeed. By the time the PPP leaves office, there are going to be persons associated with that government who will be amongst the richest in the Caribbean.
All those in the Caribbean who feel that they are tycoons had better sit up and take note because the way some persons in Guyana are accumulating wealth, the greed that these same individuals are displaying and the gamesmanship through which certain deals are being made, all suggest that within the next few years, Guyana may have some of the richest persons in the Caribbean. And these persons are rich without even having a background in business or any investments in oil, gold or silver.
Burnham thought that he was the consummate politician. But he has met his match within the PPP. There are persons in there who would make Burnham look like an apprentice. These individuals are as cunning as they come and they have the financial backing to go with their schemes.
Step aside Forbes! Make way for the new carpetbaggers!

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