Ceaseless cacophony of banalities and mediocrities

Dec 23, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

In living with power every day, the mind must reach a saturation point with men and women whose words are flaky, voices are unfriendly, styles are inelegant and personalities are pretentious. The mind revolts at the ceaseless cacophony of banalities and mediocrities. For nineteen years we endured Sam Hinds. For nineteen years we stomached Clement Rohee. For nineteen years, we bore up with Gail Teixeira. Do we still have to take them?
Yes we do. Because when you open the newspapers they are there. I don’t know if we are going to see Gail Teixeira at UG next year. I hope not. But she will be around alright. I ask in all sincerity what kind of advice on governance Texieira gave Jagdeo. It couldn’t have been nice words. Jagdeo was literally a runway train of autocracy.
What advice is she currently giving Donald Ramotar? After nineteen years in the Cabinet, Ms. Teixeira certainly wasn’t a figure of sagacity. Her boss went on a rampage during the campaign and may have caused his party to be where it is now – in the minority in Parliament.
About Sam. Well Sam is in competition with the great Sachin Tendulkar. The latter is one century away from chalking up 100 international centuries in cricket. He could do it at any moment because India is in Australia.
Sam may be close to a lot of records one of which is the longest serving Prime Minister of Guyana. You get a bit tired of Sam. He doesn’t excel. He doesn’t entice. He doesn’t do anything but be the Prime Minister and that is what tires you. You open the newspaper and Sam is there, photographed at the cocktail circuit and you know he will be there tomorrow. Will Sam be there forever?
Rohee is up there with Tendulkar and Sam. He is trying with his own milestone -. to be the longest serving Cabinet Minister in Guyana. Of course he has to break some records held by PNC Ministers. Hamilton Green was a Cabinet member from 1964 to 1992. If Rohee is going for Green’s achievement, then the thought is frightening – Rohee, like Sam may be in the corridors of power forever. We are stuck with him and his stuck record. His style doesn’t change.
The election cloud is still spewing its ashes but Rohee soldiers on with his jejune style that plays havoc with the mental stability of the citizenry. Asked by the media for a comment on the Jamaican angle into the investigation of Commissioner Green, Rohee is quoted as saying; “You can continue getting along those lines.” This is a man who has been in the Cabinet for nineteen years, this is a man whose party two weeks ago lost its parliamentary majority but his banalities, mediocrities and pomposities know no bounds.
Asked what he meant by his senseless exclamation, he became even more senseless and witless by replying; “The same investigation you have been doing.” Is this nation stuck forever with the man who said that goat ain’t bite him? Is President Ramotar seriously contemplating continuing with Clement Rohee as a Minister?
Has Rohee learnt anything about administrative deportment and political astuteness for all the years he has been in politics?
The “goat ain’t bite meh” politician said earlier this year that he feels it in his DNA that his time has come to contest the presidency of his country. One wonders what he is feeling now and if he is feeling something inside of him one hopes it is inside his back pocket – an airline ticket to join “Killamam” on a diplomatic posting.
Look whose is back in the Cabinet? The KN column, “Dem Boys Seh” refers to him as Bruck up Benn.” It is an insult to modern democracy to have Robeson Benn as a Minister when his balance sheet is one of the most soiled and corrugated sheets of paper one can ever look at.
Do you know that under Mr. Benn’s watch in the Jagdeo administration, the traffic lights at one of the busiest junctions in this country never worked since they were installed – Albert and Lamaha Streets? And to think that this man retains his portfolio.
Mr. Benn’s Ministry seems to operate without commonsense. That Ministry has to know that if there is any period in the year when the traffic signals must be monitored all the time it is in the Christmas season. Madness has taken over the streets. On Dec 22, From Sheriff Street to Industry had 12 hours of blackout. That is three days before Christmas. The PPP is back in power alright.

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