The regime playbook on racial politics is a diversion from their unrighteous act on the Marriott issue  

Feb 24, 2013 Letters

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Dear Editor,
Just as Lenin’s body remains on public display in Russia to rally the faithful when the Stalinists deemed it necessary, so too is one Presidential Advisor, Ms. Teixeira who has resurrected the PPP play book on racial politics in Guyana. We want to inform Gail Teixeira that this has worked in the past as a symbol for their rapidly dwindling supporters but it will not work today because Guyanese are aware of their scheme of deception.  Unfortunately, too many people “belly ah bun” in Guyana today for that kind of “jumbie politics” to take effect and become successful. All over Guyana the East Indians “belly ah bun” and the Afro-Guyanese “belly ah bun” even more.  But worst of all, what the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal has put the Amerindians through in the last 20 years will not only cause their “belly to bun” but it has stifled their productivity, destroyed their dignity and created conflicts among the groups with the intent to make them life-long paupers.
Let it be known that the poverty rate in Guyana is now past 40% of the population and no amount of racial propaganda, distortions and untruths from the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal can save them. The people of Guyana have lost confidence in this corrupt, greedy, uncaring and heartless regime whose time is coming to an end sooner rather than later.
As Frank Sanatra said “And now the end is near and so (they) face the final curtain”! Such a statement from that Presidential Advisor is unpatriotic, idiotic and most reprehensible. We call on all Guyanese, irrespective of their ethnicity and political persuasion to condemn it. It is high time for the PPP to stop this nonsense.
This is an outcome of their desperation and crooked behavior as they try to hide their financial shenanigans and white collar gangsterism on the Marriot Project, the Treasury, NICIL and the Contingency Funds. Contrary to Ms. Teixeira’s lame duck accusation that the opposition protest on the Marriott Hotel issue is “stink of racism” the issue is never about the race of the workers on the project, rather the real issue is clear to all Guyanese.
How could the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime craft a contract with the Chinese to import labour from China when there is such a high unemployment rate in Guyana (reported at some 40% for the youths aged 18-35 and 18% overall)? This is what Ms. Teixeira must address and not start to preach racism.
To have the Chinese discriminate against Guyanese workers is one thing but to have your own government chose foreign workers over its own is not only disrespectful, insulting and contemptuous but also they are taking bread out of the mouths of Guyanese. The Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal has no shame whatsoever! How can they live with themselves?
So our dear Guyanese, please ignore these sustained acts of naked and cheap propaganda and gutter politics from the Freedom House operatives.  It is all designed to pull wool over your eyes while they push their hands into the Treasury like common pickpockets, stealing the destiny of the Guyanese children.
From our analysis of the socio-economic and political situation in Guyana, we expect no better from the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal.  Persons like the Presidential Advisor should justify her salary of G$1 million a month paid from the sweat of the poor and the working class.
Twenty-one men will have to toil in the cane-fields every month so that one person can talk spume; that is the aggregate of the number of sugar workers it will take to earn what Gail Texeira takes home from one of her jobs. We want the people to know that she wears many hats that pay additional wages.
It takes a political flea to say these untruths in order to serve their political masters and economic sponsors whose only objective is to plunder the Treasury and financially rape the poor and the working class.
There was a time when racist overtones from the PPP would stick with the people in Guyana. That time was during the “apan jhat”  and the Jagdeo period but that was then.
For the PPP to throw a red herring into the debate to distract, distort and confuse the people on the real issue is ridiculous. The people are fully aware that while their “belly ah bun” the fat cats in the PPP are drinking out all the MILK and HONEY from the country.
Today, the shoe is on the other foot and now we have a PPP poodle claiming that the TUC and other protestors are anti-Chinese and racist.  That is furthest from the truth. It is quite an abomination that some 65,000 Guyanese are on the bread line; willing to work but there are not jobs available for them because the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal has given the jobs to the Chinese.
Yet, to add salt to the Guyanese workers’ wound, we were advised that some 600 plus Chinese are working in Guyana on jobs that many unemployed and skilled Guyanese are qualified to do.
These Chinese are not nano-technologists or nuclear-technologists; they are “run of the mill” masons, carpenters and steel benders.  But to justify a mysterious G$2 billion discount, Guyanese are denied jobs even though His Excellency, the President Mr. Ramotar had promised to create jobs for the people during the 2011 election campaign.
This was the biggest con game on the Guyanese people since the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal has revealed that it is unable to create the hundreds of new jobs as promised.
In addition, what remains a big question mark to us is whether we are really benefiting from a discount of G$2 billion or is this a political kick-back into the pockets of leading politicians in the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal.
We call on the majority opposition-AFC/APNU to file an injunction against the Marriott Hotel Project and to use the opportunity to interrogate Mr. Brassington and others until the fraudulent money trail is found. This nation cannot afford for G$2 billion to be taken from the taxpayers by corrupt politicians.
We demand that the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal release to the public a copy of the feasibility study and signed contract on this Marriott Hotel Project?  After all, these civil works are being paid for with taxpayers’ funds?
This fishy business from the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal must be stopped by whatever peaceful means necessary and we call on the private sector business community which continue to lose new wealth because of this invasion of Chinese contractors and their workers into Guyana to support and fund these protest actions.
It is time for the TUC to join force with the opposition and intensify their mobilization in the villages and in the towns in order to wake up this Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal.  Their squander mania and reckless ways of governance must be stopped.
The rights of Guyanese to work on projects paid for by Guyanese taxpayers must be respected and those who are opposed to these unrighteous acts must let their voices be heard by joining the picket line every day until they secure the required solution – jobs for Guyanese on projects funded with taxpayers money.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh

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