Granger and Ramjattan can do no more to disappoint

Nov 20, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
It was Catherine Hughes MP, while addressing the National Assembly on July 25th 2012, who made strong reference to the violation of the rights of Lindeners who peacefully protested on July 18th 2012.
Three Lindeners were shot and killed on that fateful day. There has been no justice and some opined that there will be none forthcoming.
The APNU and AFC in parliament moved a no confidence motion against Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, to no avail. Rohee continues in parliament and the Opposition vows that there will be non-support for any Bills presented by him. Mr Rohee also has the unwavering support of President Donald Ramotar.
The relatives of the three dead Lindeners, and the more than twenty protesters who were shot and sustained serious injuries, have seen no justice. Some opine they will see none.
We are in the month of November, five months on since the killings. During those months there has been international outcry in the forms of protests in the UK, USA and Canada, condemning the grave human rights atrocities on the people of Linden. International human rights groups have condemned those acts of senseless murders and urged that there must be swift justice. No justice to date. Some opine there will be none.
The Joint Opposition and the ruling PPP agreed to a ‘kangaroo’ Commission of Inquiry into the killings. They did not bring commissioners from the UK, USA or Canada. Why? I guess they could not afford for an impartial ruling that would make solid recommendations with the view of seeing justice.
When David Granger and Khemraj Ramjattan agreed with the PPP to have Caribbean lawyers preside, they knew that justice would hang from a pernicious precipice. Strange things happened during the life of the Commission of Inquiry into the killings of the three protesters at Linden…very strange developments – even though this did not come as a surprise.
Nigel Hughes may know a lot more. He may be president one day. Hughes gives hope to our struggles for equal rights and justice in Guyana, but fate can be sometimes cruel. The men and women who are sacrificing so much to save Guyana may not be given any opportunity to rule and save our country; at least, not in the near future, by the way things are happening.
Until Granger and Ramjattan stop their weak posturing, we may just roll into another election year to once again give the PPP a majority in the National Assembly. It is for Nigel Hughes and Moses Nagamootoo to create an urgent political fever amongst the masses as if we are in an election year. This must be sustained until we feel the winds of change beginning to gently brush against our bruised cheeks.
Linden has received not a single thing coming out of their high profile meetings with the government; no satellite dish, no transmitter, no independent TV station…And nothing coming out of countless talks with the Regional Chairman and his team and the Government of Guyana. No compensation for the families of those killed and the injured victims.
My meeting in September of this year with Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon gave me the impression that the government was forthcoming with the ‘TV Promise’. The Regional Chairman was optimistic about positive results and gave a guarantee that we would see independent TV at Linden two weeks from the time of our meeting. It is two months and counting.
The PPP wins every time. They can do anything and stand untouched. Meanwhile, Granger collects his pay as Opposition Leader, sounds and looks important, wears green which symbolises militancy and talks a lot about Guyana and where it should be. As an historian he forgets that history can and will be harsh on him if he remains ineffective as Leader of the Joint Opposition.
The parents and relatives of those killed are left with nothing.
Hughes gives me a lot of hope. Nagamootoo can bring some hope too. He seems very quiet lately. Mark Benschop, Freddie Kissoon, Gerhard Ramsaroop and Lincoln Lewis press on tirelessly.
The ball is in Hughes and Nagamootoo’s court. Maybe, we will have to start holding them accountable.
Where potential is great and experience is not a problem. Where there is a will; these two men must now make a way. I am through with Ramjattan and Granger. They can do no more to disappoint.
Norman Browne

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