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US Ambassador meddling in Guyana’s internal political affairs – PPP
The Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday lashed out at outgoing US Ambassador, Dr. Brent Hardt, over comments he would have made at a recent Blue Caps forum. The ruling party accused him of meddling in the internal political
US Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt (right) during a recent engagement with General Secretary of the PPP, Clement Rohee
affairs of a sovereign country.
Hardt, during the forum held at Duke Lodge on Monday, again called on President Donald Ramotar, to hold Local Government Elections.
He told those in attendance that civil society must also demand that the Executive hold the election which was crucial to democracy.
According to the PPP, Hardt has once again displayed his proclivity for petty, partisan and unadulterated anti-government politicking as he draws the final curtain on his tenure as US Ambassador to Guyana.
The PPP said that the Ambassador launched into a barrage of undiplomatic tirades, while mockingly referring to statements emanating from the Party in respect of the holding of Local Government elections in Guyana.
“Hardt remarks were most regrettable to say the least… He unreservedly used the Blue Caps forum to stir up controversy and level political invective against the General Secretary of People’s Progressive Party (Clement Rohee).”
The PPP said that Hardt has exposed to the Guyanese public the hidden political agenda of the Blue Caps Organisation by unfrocking it as a handmaiden set up to accomplish clear political objectives.
The Party said that while Clinton Urling, the Blue Caps founder, has been busy trying his level best to convince many that it has no political agenda, “the US Ambassador has declared to the contrary and in fact, has laid bare what Urling was trying so hard to conceal. Urling is now saddled with the herculean task of repairing the damage which Hardt has inflicted on the fledgling Blue Caps outfit.”
The PPP in its public missive yesterday said, it is to be regretted that the outgoing US Ambassador rather than focusing on economic diplomacy and promoting Guyana as a country to which US business entities should invest, preferred to meddle in the internal political affairs of a sovereign country.
“Breaching all diplomatic protocols, Mr. Hardt launches a barrage of anti-government farewell salvos towards the Office of the President and Freedom House, Headquarters of the People’s Progressive Party…
“He even goes so far as to evoke the revered name of Cheddi Jagan to suit his political posturing and gaffe in respect to democracy and elections in Guyana.”
The PPP said, too, that Hardt in a most undiplomatic manner sought to lecture a duly elected President namely, Donald Ramotar, about what he should do and should not do, “speaking presumptuously from the rank of Ambassador to Head of State.”
According to the PPP, “Even a Head of State of another sovereign state would be hard pressed to intrude in a fellow colleague’s domestic political agenda as Mr. Hardt brazenly did, totally abandoning all pretences at conventional diplomatic practices.”
The PPP said that it is indeed sad to observe how Hardt threw diplomatic protocol out of the window and downgraded himself to the level of an interloper in the domestic politics of Guyana.
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