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Dec 03, 2013 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
Over recent weeks, several experts have eloquently discussed Guyana’s situation as it relates to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). Most of the more objective writers have declared that Guyana’s financial wounds, when they do occur, would have been self-inflicted. Today, I want to steer away from the technical side of the debate and to simply highlight what I consider to be the PPP’s poor political judgment and bad attitude in general.
I agree with many of my brothers and sisters who have condemned the Private Sector Commission as a bunch of groveling hypocrites. This group has supported the Amaila Falls project, but has bluntly refused to call on the corrupt PPP regime to establish the Procurement Commission, the Integrity Commission and the Ombudsman among others. Simply put, their interests are their pockets and not those of the Guyanese people.
For many years now, whenever any international agency presented a report on anything on Guyana, the PPP’s standard reaction, their standard operational procedure, if you will, would be to curse, criticize, condemn and call the report biased. In other words, they are satisfied with the status quo; that is, they would allow things to remain exactly as they are. Or they would use propaganda and distortions to bamboozle the people and to dictate to the Opposition. There would be no attempt to address the nation’s deficiencies as highlighted in the report. Instead, the report would be dumped into the wastepaper basket or otherwise simply ignored. This is a regime that believes that it is always right and everyone else is wrong.
The report on human trafficking, for example, was presented years ago. This report was greeted with doubts, denials, criticism and scorn. Generally, very little action was taken. Another report on race relations was also submitted and this one was greeted with stubborn resistance. Really, no one living here in Guyana needs anyone to research or submit reports on this issue. We live it every day. Yet, the government, with loud self-praise and use of their controlled media would make the world believe that everyone, including the poor, lives on the doorsteps of paradise rather than in the belly of the beast.
It is this same attitude which the PPP took in dealing with the CFATF. Their only miscalculation was that this time, their nonsense of spreading propaganda, distortions and ridiculing everyone did not work. This CFATF ‘thing’ has teeth and claws and is likely to tear away at the façade of this regime.
If the other agencies had the means of dealing with this obnoxious regime, they would have done so years ago. There is a saying that ‘every dog has its day.’ Maybe the CFATF with their international clout would give us, the lesser mortals of Guyana, a brighter day.  Thanks to the combined opposition who did what the people asked them to do. That is, to face down this stubborn and dictatorial regime and to safeguard the future of the people and the country.
Aubrey Retemyer

 

 

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