Incompetence, corruption and a period of consequences

May 21, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Over recent months there has been disaster after disaster at the sea wall from Kitty to Liliendaal; this is the result of a situation similar to that which Winston Churchill outlined in his famous speech on November 12, 1936 in the British Parliament.
I have taken the liberty of adjusting it somewhat [for the Guyana situation by adding the two words incompetence and corruption] as follows, “they go on in a strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent, corrupt and incompetent”
“Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have entered upon a period of danger. The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience of delays, of incompetence and corruption, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences”.
At least the British had Churchill to help them out of the mess they found themselves in at that time, totally unprepared to deal with Hitler, but here in Guyana we have people in charge, who think that jetties/groynes are there to stop wave action on our sea walls to stop overtopping, and are wasting our money rebuilding them. They are there for an entirely different reason. Anyone expecting that groynes can stop overtopping of the sea walls is in for a big shock!
See also Charles Sohan’s letter last week. The answer to this problem is to raise the sea defences 6 ft with rip rap from Kitty to Liliendaal. The Wikipedia dictionary/encyclopaedia tells us that “A groyne is a rigid hydraulic structure built from an ocean shore (in coastal engineering) or from a bank (in rivers) that interrupts water flow and limits the movement of sediment. In the ocean, groynes create beaches, or avoid having them washed away by longshore drift” so you don’t have to be an engineer to tell that our so called authorities are completely wrong and totally incompetent, just look in a dictionary.
We are no better off in other areas. Just look at the beleaguered sugar industry. In 2006 the industry production was 259,470 tonnes, dropping by 2012 to 218,688 tonnes, and it is still falling. During this time the European Union gave Guyana 27.6 billion Guyana dollars to resuscitate/diversify the industry to make it more competitive; no one knows where this money went.
And just listen to the PPP’s press conference in Freedom House last week. Is paramountcy of the party still alive in this country? The PPP continually violates the law by attempting to block the decisions of the Guyana Parliament and as such is constantly violating the constitution. First it accuses the media of racially profiling the award of the radio licences. In addition, for the government to tell us now that the licences were issued to people who had the means to operate a radio station, is ludicrous, unacceptable and lies.
No one is aware that people who had previously applied were called in to assess whether they had the means to operate a radio station before Jagdeo issued them. These lies and stupid excuses are perpetrated to hide the real agenda of the PPP, which is to make everyone else impotent in this country to properly finance an election to challenge them.
But in fact there was an agreement between the PPP and the opposition which is stated clearly in the dialogue as to how the licences should be issued, since the bi-partisan committee on broadcasting, co-chaired by Gail Teixeira and Deryck Bernard, had recommended [which both sides signed on to], that the most important method of selection of radio and television owners was to select owners which reflected the ethnic composition of the areas to be served.
I am appealing to the opposition again publicly; the broadcasting authority should be immediately dissolved and replaced with a more bi-partisan, independent and autonomous one and the method of their selection must guarantee their independence, or the consequences will be that in any future election the opposition will have no voice.
The people of this nation, due to their lack of interest in the quality of their governance, interested only in racial voting and swayed by the lies perpetrated by the PPP, will continue to pay the penalty.
Tony Vieira

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