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Mr.Cheddi Jagan II has demonstrated a tendency of placing himself on a pedestal while belittling others

Dec 17, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
I hope you will permit me to make the following points, in reference to letters appearing in your newspaper relating to Cheddi Jagan II’s qualifications:
1. No one questions that Mr. Jagan is a highly qualified individual, who can offer some sort of services to Guyana. In fact, he should be commended for returning home to serve his country.
2. What is repulsive, however, is Mr. Jagan’s attitude – his “arrogance and disdain,” as another writer put it – towards those lesser qualified than himself. In his response to the letter questioning his qualifications, and in previous online writings, Mr. Jagan has demonstrated a tendency of placing himself on a pedestal, while belittling and speaking down to others. This practice of puffing up oneself, while perhaps necessary for someone of such small stature as Mr. Jagan, is unbefitting an official working at the Office of the President. Mr. Jagan may believe that his acerbic language helps to convey his arguments more persuasively, but it has also made him the butt of many jokes on social media sites, and has exposed him to ridicule, now on a national stage.
3. Mr. Jagan has asked whether there is anyone else in Guyana qualified for the position he currently hold. Is he asking whether there is anyone else in Guyana with the party connections he enjoys, and the willingness to ‘buse down’ on national forums against all and sundry? Is he asking whether there is anyone else in Guyana with the gall and temerity to insult every licensed attorney in the country by publicly implying that he is better qualified than all of them, even though he is unlicensed? Is he asking whether there is anyone else in Guyana so full of themselves as he is? If so, then I can assure him that only he is qualified for the position he holds.
4. I can also assure him that contrary to his claims, there are multiple licensed New York attorneys, holding Juris Doctor degrees, who have returned to, and are currently residing in Guyana. The fact that he does not know them does not mean they do not exist.
5. Mr. Jagan has failed to assure the Guyanese public that his employment at the Office of the President resulted from a fair and competitive process. Can he tell us when advertisements were made for the position he holds? Of course not, because this was a position created for him and solely him by a government that misuses the public’s money to reward those connected to them. Maybe Mr. Jagan does not understand why the Guyanese public views such favoritism and nepotism with disgust, so let me break it down for him. You, sir, an individual just out of law school, who is not yet licensed to practice law, receive a salary that is more than four times that of most public servants who have labored in the Guyanese civil service for decades – some before you were born. This government is misusing the public’s money – yes, all money spent by this government belongs to the people of Guyana – by paying you a super salary for a position that was not advertised, and for legal services you are not licensed to offer. They find it repulsive, and a disgrace, that instead of accepting criticism with a grain of salt, you have rubbed salt in their wounds by choosing to attack the very people whose money pay the salary you enjoy every month – the “juniors” as you put it, or the average hardworking decent Guyanese who are my mother and father, my relatives, my friends, my colleagues, etc.
6. Finally, Mr. Jagan, can you tell us what you do to earn your $400,000+ salary per month? What have been your accomplishments at the Office of the President since you started working there? The Guyanese public would like some answers.
Seema Chatterdeo

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