The nation is doomed

Nov 07, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
On Friday September 21, President Ramotar hosted a press conference that allowed us to hear a lot of what is on his mind. We heard his narrative about how an ineffective Minister was given a paint job and redecorated as the “best candidate” to Chair the Broadcasting Authority. Is this the legacy that President Ramotar is offering the nation?
Leadership is about setting a course and describing a vision for people. Are we to understand that Bibi Safora Shadick with almost zero background in the Broadcasting Industry is the visionary for the Broadcasting Industry? These conditions in Guyana make it almost impossible to conduct a professional life since hard work and much talent do0 not factor into appointment these days. What happened to seasoned and experienced broadcasters like Ron Robinson or Paloma Mohamed? Goat “bite” them?
This is exactly what is wrong with Guyana, too many goats and ducks are in command!
When a State through its leader seeks to reward its political “flunkies” rather than the best and most competent, then there is no incentive to foster dignity and respect anymore since the road to the front of the line is the classic “suck-up”. When loyalty to the party is the principal determinant in appointing people to higher office, then there is no incentive to work hard, to be trustworthy and to be responsible.
As this Jagdeo philosophy and ideology gets institutionalized in the State under President Ramotar, it reduces all the people the lowest possible level, be they workers, housewives or professionals. When a Government fails to truly understand history and how the country can best develop by creating more opportunities for the best, brightest and most competent in the middle and professional class and provide opportunities for the poor to elevate themselves to a better socio-economic position; then we are doomed.
When a visionless Government overlooks talented and passionate professionals like Ron Robinson and Paloma Mohamed to serve at a higher level after they have walked the tried and tested path of hard work and gained valued experience and talent; then we are doomed.
We are doomed since the administration of institutions like the Broadcasting Authority are being surrendered to people with a vindictive, pitiless and partisan past in service to their political sponsors. Ms. Shadick has played a brutal role on the University Council, in service to her political masters, in their attempts to break the back of the intellectual class. For such a service, she has been given a new mission – obliterate what is left of the independent media that allows self-expression from the real people.
There is a lesson to be learnt from this episode of history; we are all in this together; not only the Bibi Shadicks and others of her “kith and kin” with their political connections to Freedom House. This nation has clearly demonstrated that it is broken when in its quest to control the independent media houses; it has to appoint such prejudiced minds to what was supposed to be an independent institution.
Shame on President Ramotar!
If one were to truly understand history, a handful of robber barons have never kept back a people. These mobsters will attack the message, the messenger and feed the people crow, as one of them threatened in Parliament the other day, in their greedy quest to hold the nation at ransom.
Regards
Dr Asquith Rose and Harish S Singh

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