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Speaker Trotman made a horrible mistake

Feb 02, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
No one in this country any longer is surprised or distraught at the complete silence that has overtaken this sad, demolished, morally rubbished nation. The most outrageous atrocity can come out of the mouths of the most important persons and not one citizen responds and shows our very young population that there is still hope for this country
On the contrary, many of these people who insult this nation with the utter horrific semantics they give off are in fact feted and highly spoken of. Surely, this is a nation that can easily be taken for a land sermonized by any famous writer who has done a story about life in hell. A prominent citizen in a Stabroek News column had the temerity to write that he saw corruption in Canada and the US so can’t understand why we keep highlighting these things in Guyana. Can you believe this gentleman when he descended to that level? And no one took him up to tell that what he wrote was appalling nonsense
President Ramotar told the nation he cannot tell a private company what price it should put on a product or service but in the same breathe urged Guyanese not to pay a mere twenty dollar increase for private transportation. Not one Guyanese exposed this terrible act of hypocrisy
Now we come to the Speaker of the House. I think Speaker Trotman knows that my admiration for him is over. I campaigned for the AFC in the last election and though my admiration for Nigel Hughes and Khemraj Ramjattan is mountainous, I will have problems in future campaigns for the AFC if Trotman is in the AFC leadership. I would have extreme difficulty in campaigning on the same platform with Trotman
I honestly believe that after the 2011 elections, Trotman had no more interest in fighting for democratic restoration. There is nothing he has said and done since 2011 that has helped the anti-authoritarian struggle against PPP hegemony. On the contrary, many of his utterances have been in favour of the Government; many of which I have exposed in my columns.
Recently, Trotman admitted that the Parliament does not have the sovereign right to accept a project from the United States on its own. In calling on the US and the Guyana Government to discuss and negotiate the democracy project, he has conceded that sovereignty resides only in the government of a country. But here is the horrible part. The government that he puts that sovereignty in is a minority regime. Trotman puts no value in the context of sovereignty on the role of Parliament.
And to think this man is the Speaker. And to think the AFC and APNU are yet to tell him that he has weakened Parliament and thus should resign. I call upon Trotman to resign because it is my understanding that in a situation of a minority government, Parliament embodies sovereignty and can directly speak to the US Government and accept financial assistance from the US to strengthen parliamentary democracy
Frederick Kissoon

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