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Aug 22, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

 

The colossal question on everyone’s lips is; will they keep their side of the bargain? Will the Guyana Government implement the agreement with the Region 10 Council that diffused the Linden crisis?
I don’t think the PPP leadership can be convinced by the most learned minds in the world that times have changed. Burnham and Jagan are dead; sugar workers are different people from when Cheddi Jagan was their god; the PNC is not the party when Burnham was its leader; no one reads Guyana Times and the Chronicle; Guyanese are migrating en masse; racial tensions are seeping dangerously beneath the surface; and the Guyanese people across racial and political lines hate the PPP for its encouragement of corruption.
If you examine the face of the PPP since the unimaginable resignation of its star stalwart, Ralph Ramkarran, it has become more grim, more vexed. There is absolutely no attempt to appease its detractors or the population in even small ways or even pursue a less arrogant path. The PPP is simply unchanging and its barefacedness is on the increase. The PPP simply doesn’t care what this country thinks of it. Let us look at some setbacks and therefore see if we can predict what will happen to the Linden covenant.
It is horribly unspeakable – the things the PPP does. Nothing was done to the programming of NCN during the request to Parliament for its budget restoration. This is a good example of the tragic mind-set of the PPP. The thinking was so depraved. It went like this. We are requesting that you restore the money for NCN… we would expect you to comply. This is the attitude that prevails in the PPP and no indication is on the horizon that Freedom House will change. We are witnessing in Guyana, extremely old political attitudes that are long dead and should not be alive in the 21st century
It was basic strategy to make some changes, no matter how cosmetic, and then request the money. Take the series of live debates on corruption between Government and Opposition. The first in the series kicked off Sunday last. Here is what NCN did. They constantly flashed on the screen the text messages viewers were sending on how they felt about the debaters. All were in support of the Government side. The game is silly and the entire county knows what they did. Those were not genuine texts but invented ones to make the Opposition look bad.
NCN invited an audience to witness the event and the moderator indicated that in future programmes, the audience will be allowed to ask questions. Obviously there will be plans designed to attack the Opposition. The Opposition should not accept to continue in the series if these two formats are not taken off. It is yet another manifestation of the crazed obsession with domination. The Government side must be seen winning. The Government must win everything. The Government must appoint its own people. The Government must do as it likes because it is the Government.
Talking about appointments, what I am about to write will shock all of Guyana. When my contract at UG was terminated, the PPP made it known that I had reached retirement age.
At 60, lecturers are allowed to go on until 65. The mandatory retirement age at UG is sixty for all non-lecturers.
In the newspapers recently, UG advertised for a Human Resource Manager and the advertisement barefacedly stated that people over sixty can apply. The plot is simple to see. The PPP person who held that position for over twenty-five years will use their experience in the job to get the appointment. The convenient approach to the retirement age is to facilitate a PPP choice.
This is the nature of power in Guyana and it will not stop. Against this background why should any Guyanese feel that there will be a sincere approach by Freedom House in the realization of the things the Linden people want? First, I don’t believe there will be any speedy implementation. One crisis after another will come up and those situations will be used to slow down the process.
Linden will be told; “We are busy with very pressing matters.” The identical thing happened with the tripartite arrangement. Secondly, the television transmitting set is beyond repair. It was left in disuse for over ten years now. Thirdly, the applications by Georgetown operators to have their signals extend to Linden will not be looked at in the distant future. Finally, the economic development blueprint will die a natural death.

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