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Peeping Tom should stop being facetious

Jan 03, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
I can understand that Peeping Tom supports the PPP and given the tone of his writings, he definitely supports President Donald Ramotar. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is Peeping Tom’s facetiousness.
In his column titled “Remnants of an Old, Desperate Guard” (KN, December 28, 2011), Peeping Tom seems to believe that forces within the ruling party are acting against the government. Peeping Tom never contemplates the concept of the government acting against itself by retaining and hiring jaded discards from the old Jagdeo regime.
This is the same Peeping Tom who expressed no serious disfavour and disenchantment with the recycled Cabinet President Ramotar selected. The Cabinet is replete with the old, desperate guard and by their very selection, the progress of the nation and the substance of the Ramotar government will be derailed.
How could Peeping Tom expect anything different when there is no real change and it is virtually the same people holding the same spots all over again?
Crime has skyrocketed and Clement Rohee retains his post as Home Affairs Minister. When Rohee fails, President Ramotar fails too. While Bharrat Jagdeo developed the skill in shifting blame to everyone but himself and succeeded in doing so due to his popularity at the time, President Ramotar does not have that luxury. Failed ministers of the old guard will haunt Ramotar unless and until he removes them. With so many Jagdeoites still holding key power positions, the President has only himself to blame for the old bitter guard devastating any gains because he has placed them squarely in his sphere of influence.
Peeping Tom appears to be labouring under the delusion that there is a battle. I think not. The old guard, which continues to bare its fangs and dominate the course of the PPP and the government, has won this war without a shot being fired.
To date, President Ramotar has exuded grave compliancy with a seemingly misguided agenda pushed by a known sinister group which still retains significant power. That agenda has so far been disconnected from the ordinary PPP supporters who demanded real change and got none.
Peeping Tom is right on the issue of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) imposed by the government on local cricket. A government operating with a Parliamentary minority cannot and should not act with such unilateral stupidity, crass ignorance and belligerent bullyism that it jeopardises the international image and standing of the nation.
I believe that Donald Ramotar’s greatest act as President will come when he firmly steps out of the shadow of Bharrat Jagdeo and his acolytes and casts a trusting, independent and fearless shadow of his own, surrounded by people selected by him without influence and interference who can chart this nation on a different course. Until then, it will be more of the same.
M. Maxwell

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