Machinations, mischief and misinformation

Dec 10, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
What grandiloquence!
Here is Mr. David Granger: “There can be no change without a new spirit of service and a new spirit of sacrifice. We must resist the temptation to resort to the sort of partisanship that poisoned our politics for decades. We will progress as one nation, and as one people only within the framework of “inclusionary democracy.”
Granger actually said these words in an address, released by his office, to the nation. So in this vein, I ask for an elaboration.
Was this ‘partisanship’ that Granger refers to, a feature of the PPP/C’s rule, or the pre-1992 PNC’s mis-rule? I might add here the exclamation: what hypocrisy!
Granger, in the address, goes on to comment on “… a commitment, also, to fulfill the promises (APNU) made to the Guyanese people..” in the area of providing jobs for the youths of Guyana, relieving the burden of taxation, alleviating suffering, exposing and rooting out corruption, and eliminating discrimination and marginalization. This enumeration is quite a long one. Also, it is a distant one.
First, during the pre-1992 era, Guyana was steeped in unemployment as well as mis-employment; the taxation then was a system of bullying and I am sure that the Defence Bonds scheme is still fresh in people’s mind; suffering was widespread and at every juncture too – just think of the Hope Estate and National Service phenomena; and corruption was barefaced, to the point, that honest business men had their goods confiscated in broad daylight. Should I add the seeming extinction of flour and split peas?
Mind you, I have not even touched on the topic of election. I remember quite vividly, when the late Mr. Desmond Hoyte, held on to the ‘straw’ of desiring to privately count the ballots.
I now emphatically ask Mr. David ‘Convert’ Granger to say how all of these things went on, and all the way up until 1992. Where was his voice?
How come, after the elections were deemed transparent, fair and free, by a number of international personnel and teams, the results are still being challenged by APNU, and truly speaking, mainly by David Granger? I mean what is David Granger implying by stating that “… when they (the elections results) are verified, (then there) must (be an) open(ing of) doors of opportunity to promote prosperity and good governance.
I add here, that no one will say that Guyana is a paradise. However, the country has come a long way, and it is set to get even better.
I think here of the housing boom, the massive investment in education, a reformed and transparent electoral system, legal transparency, widespread and ongoing infrastructural work, inroads into the hinterland, and elevating the status of the Amerindians. I can go on and on, but I think these will suffice for now.
I end this letter by asking that Guyanese be alert to the tenor of David Granger. He is bent on machinations, mischief and misinformation.
David Williams

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