Nation must organise and agitate for LEAD Project - GTUC

Nation must organise and agitate for LEAD Project – GTUC

May 14, 2014 News

“While it may be tempting to view the joint press conference between the USA Ambassador (Brent) Hardt and government representative Dr. Roger Luncheon, given past exchanges and actions as a lost for Guyana, this nation is called on not to despair but to organise and agitate.”
This is according to the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) in response to the news that the USAID Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project has been put on hold to facilitate further talks with Government.
GTUC in a public missive recently, said that the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) has done what it does best – propaganda and demonisation.
“Whether the USA has fallen prey to it or had left it up to the citizenry to battle it out and hold their elected officials accountable to ensure their participation in and reaping the benefits the project intended to achieve will be seen over time.”
According to the GTUC, the masses at the end of the day will determine if they will demand representation from the politicians in fulfilling the nation’s political objective outlined in the Guyana Constitution, which mandates their involvement in decision-making that affect their wellbeing, of which knowledge and institutional strengthening are key components.
GTUC said it takes particular note of Dr. Luncheon’s response to concerns that the government’s intent is to have the project abandoned.
Luncheon’s remark that, “it is not impossible but highly unlikely to happen with repeated emphasis on not impossible, is unsettling.”
GTUC observed that on the other hand the US Ambassador is being diplomatically correct in expressing optimism that the parties will resolve their differences before his tour of duty ends.
“The man and woman in the street will advise that the government will not honour this agreement equally as it has failed to honour all agreements with individuals/groups that hold a different view, real or perceived, from theirs.”
The union pointed to the failure to honour the Herdmanston Accord, St. Lucia Statement, Hoyte/Jagdeo dialogue, Corbin/Jagdeo communiqué, the 2012 High Court’s ruling to re-issue letters to commence arbitration proceedings into the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) grievances, collective bargaining with the public service unions, and the 2012 Agreement between Central Government and Region 10.
“Its Labour’s strong view that the fulfillment of the LEAD project, as with other agreements, including the contract to govern, will be reliant on the workers’ militancy and the consent of the governed.”
GTUC is adamant that the bottom line of all this is, the continued manifestation of the LEAD project, will not be at the behest of the PPP or the US government, “it will be at the behest of this nation, its people, including the media and civil society rallying/uniting around a well deserving issue and demanding the politicians, in opposition and government, bring it to fruition.”
GTUC opines that the PPP may have won the battle but the war is far from over.
“The war belongs to the people and the people will have to fight to bring about the needed change, consistent with the system of governance guaranteed in our Constitution that the government refuses to respect when it does not serve its interest.”
GTUC reminds that knowledge is power and while a government continues the practice of the tyranny of the minority with its disrespect for the people and desire to keep them suppressed, “the voice of the majority will have to increase its decibel and actions to halt the excesses and contempt.”

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