Latest update June 25th, 2026 12:41 AM
Something is in the air: It is not good
Dear Editor,
I have been involved in four forms of protest the past two months. I showed solidarity with the striking GPL workers by demonstrating with them on Main Street and in Brickdam. I was among the protestors of Plaisance who were inflexible against the placing of the e-governance tower on the community ground. I picketed with the vendors and City Councilors who rejected the Town Clerk’s decision to evict sellers from their vending sites downtown. On Friday I participated in the picket/ demonstration of the residents of Yarrowkabra who are being displaced from their coal burning occupation to make way for BK sand mines
Citizens of Guyana who were not among these irate people will not properly understand the real depth of their feelings against the Guyana Government. You will understand, yes, but you cannot fully grasp the inner anger of them unless you are among them. And when you are among them what you see tells a sad tale of leaders who cannot learn from the mistakes of the past. These protestors from all parts of Guyana are depressed at their helplessness and it brings out strong feelings in them and strong is a mild word.
You struggle with these people and you feel it inside your soul that something is going to happen sooner than later and it will not be pleasant for Guyana and its citizens. No nation is going to sit by in silence and watch their livelihood disappearing from their families. The Yarrowkabra incident is simply madness in all its forms that must be stopped. The people displaced are not even working class but maybe a little stratum below the working class. These are poor people. Why any government would want to weaken their economic existence for one of the largest companies in Guyana that can easily claim another area for mining sand?
As a political activist and a student in history, I see tragic events unfolding in my country if this government does not stop and reflect on the insane pathway of self-destruction they are on. There isn’t even a small pause. One atrocity follows another within days and the destructive flow goes on. Last Tuesday, I spoke to a high level PPP activist that was a recent discovery of the party and he said to me that he honestly thinks that Roger Luncheon and Gail Teixeira are totally oblivious to the unpopular direction the PPP has gone into. I sat in his car and he confessed to me that the PPP has lost its way and Teixeira and Luncheon constitute serious hurdles to the PPP trying to change.
While I agreed with the two names I told him that Ramotar himself must not be taken out of the picture of blindness to reality. I honestly do not see any shade of difference between Ramotar on the one hand, and Luncheon and Teixeira on the other. They are all Stalinist who have lost their ways more than fifteen years ago. I mentioned that Irfan Aly and Priya Manickchand, from confidential information I receive all the time about their party politics, are just as inflexible as any of the names he cited.
The question is if there is anyone in the families of the PPP hierarchy with influence that can talk to the PPP. I doubt the likes of Teixeira would listen to Rupert Roopnarine even though they share a very close working relationship and Roopnarine is more than capable of assessing for Teixeira the dangers ahead if the PPP continues with its venalities. But would Roopnarine want to?
I doubt the PPP would listen to Sir Shridath. But would Ramphal want to get involved? Is there anyone in the diaspora that can sit down with the PPP’s collective leadership, get into their minds and persuade them to just “cool out?” I believe only four candidates stand some chance but I doubt Luncheon and Teixeira would be persuaded. They are Nelson Mandela, Jesse Jackson, PJ Patterson and Jimmy Carter. Carter is out. He said he is not interested in any more mediation in this country. Mandela’s advisors would advise on him traveling. Patterson is too loyal to CARICOM to want to talk to a sitting Head of a CARICOM country. That leaves Jesse Jackson. But who is to approach him. Guyanese are helplessly looking on as their country slips into a chasm of mind-boggling insanity
Frederick Kissoon
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