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Bisram’s condemnation of the opposition for the Agricola unrest is irresponsible

Oct 18, 2012 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
We refer to a communiqué from Vishnu Bisram. He has chosen to be a Judge, jury and executioner on the issues of who must be condemned and who are responsible for the Agricola street demonstrations.
We are very clear that violence of any kind is violence and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms, especially when innocent victims are affected. But Bisram cannot act like a hypocrite and use this opportunity to make stupid remarks about the vices of the street demonstrations, thinking the working class in Guyana is completely daft.
For how long will the working class live in human indignity and inequality as the PPP uses violence to discriminate and oppress them? For how long will the poor and the working class continue take the abuse from those in power?
There will come a time when they will say enough is enough.
Bisram also said that the opposition “must be condemned and those responsible arrested and charged and the victims compensated….”
What about compensation for the people of De Willem who have to endure constant flooding because of a $154 million koker that was placed at the wrong location? What about compensation for the people of Lusignan whose road went into disrepair two months after the Ministry of Public Works spent some $60 million on this project?
How can Bisram claim that justice for the victims affected by the violence at Agricola should be the number one priority and to this day he has not uttered a single word in support of the three slain young men and the dozens who were injured at Linden?
Not only that, he has chosen to remain silent on the fatal shootings of 17-year-old Shaquille Grant and 21-year-old Dameon Belgrave.
In fact, he praised the police actions at Linden, because, as he said, the government’s maintenance of law and order must trump all other actions. He further stated that the PPP government should not allow the actions of a few thugs at Linden to disrupt the town.
This suggests that the lives of the five slain young men (Shemroy Bouyea, Allan Lewis, Ron Somerset, Shaquille Grant and Dameon Belgrave) are of less value and importance to him than those whom he claimed were robbed or injured at Agricola. The suffering of the people of Lusignan and De Willem is of no relevance to him, but the recovery of those 12,000 votes in Berbice which the AFC took from the PPP in the last election is of greater importance.
Bisram was silent for the last decade as the PPP marginalized the people of Linden by not developing the town and denying them the freedom to have more than one TV station. At no time did Bisram express any sympathy for them? So when he said that “The [AFC] party has its politics all wrong and priorities mixed up” we are of the considered view that he is in fact getting his facts mixed up, since it is the PPP that is forgetting it is the Government of Guyana and their duty is to govern for all the people of this nation.
Let us emphasize that the situation in a number of depressed communities is not of the making of the AFC; they are solely created and perpetuated by the PPP during the last twenty years. It is under a PPP Government that all the gold and diamonds are reaped from the Amerindian lands but very little value is returned to the custodians of the land. It is under a PPP government that trafficking of narcotics has increased significantly and corruption has escalated in almost all state agencies and departments.
Who has benefited, not the poor and the working class but the rich and the powerful.
It is under a PPP Government that members of the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal grow “fat” on uncertified and unexplainable wealth which they accumulated from climbing on the backs of the poor and the working class while at the same time pushing them down further into the ground.
So Bisram, at this critical juncture of the nation’s development, we implore you to take your lecture to Freedom House.
Dr Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh

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