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Oct 22, 2013 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
I read with interest, Hydar Ally’s letter published in Kaieteur News dated October 15, 2013 titled, “National unity cannot be created in a vacuum.” The contents of this letter are already intended to deceive those, who may not know, as the old folks say, ‘the whole story’.
First, his philosophical statements are all credible; “It is time for us all to understand the true genesis of our poverty and under development, which has very little, if anything, to do with race and ethnicity, but more with the promulgation of programmes and policies, which are people centered and development oriented”.
Fine words, but then, he follows the well known script to attack the policies of Burnham and the PNC. His analysis of the 1953 PPP split is flawed. I do not know that I know Mr. Ally, except for his PPP statements — was he there? He names a number of Afro Guyanese who backed Dr. Cheddi Jagan, but he only remembers Dr. J.P. Latchmansingh as supporting Burnham.
Dr. Latchmansingh had his surgery in Albouystown, and as a teenage political activist, he influenced a number of Indo Guyanese to support Burnham. Yes, all this had nothing to do with race, not even simple ideology, or class, but more to do with the question of how (tactics and strategy) best to secure self governance from the British in the ‘heat’ of a very intense Cold War.
USSR Communism vs. US led free world beliefs and policies.
The burden of his argument was National Unity, but then he launched an attack on the PNC and our greatest visionary, Forbes Burnham, without resorting to Mark Anthony’s famous address at the funeral of Caesar or drawing any parallel.
I ask him only these few questions:
1. What were these anti-working class policies of Burnham?
2. Were they free education from kindergarten to university for all?
3. Were they a drive to feed, clothe and house ourselves? Is he aware that everywhere we encourage our people to repeat phrases to forge a sense of goodness?
4. Were they the establishment of a National Service, the anchor and real force to have National Unity?
5. Were they efforts that Dr. Jagan and Burnham made for at least political unity as a useful stage for National Unity? I speak with personal authority and knowledge as General Secretary of the PNC. Each and every time these two leaders agreed on the way forward, once Cheddi Jagan reported this programme to Freedom House, it was scuttled.
One PPP top brass, I don’t know the feminine for brass, said that Burnham was so bright and clever that any proposal made had to have some trick. Does Hydar Ally remember the licks the PPP top brass gave Cheddi for offering “critical support?”
6. Was Burnham’s relentless effort to maintain our territorial integrity not something to make us all proud as Guyanese, Mr. Ally? Or, the establishment of a high quality Foreign Service that became the envy of the International Community – ask Rashleigh Jackson —the list is long. My worry – when will Hydar Ally stop this propaganda.
As to his piece about Walter Rodney, he will have the opportunity when the enquiry starts as announced by President Ramotar.
Finally, the progress by the PPP must be corruption, injustice and the newly rich with castles here and overseas.
Hamilton Green, J.P.

 

 

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