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Protecting their own interest
DEAR EDITOR,
Not surprising, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of PNC/APNU, David Granger, has joined with his AFC counterpart in denouncing the speech made by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Priya Manickchand during the US independence celebration at the home of the United States Ambassador, Brent Hardt. He called on President Donald Ramotar to disassociate his Administration from “these worthless remarks” and to issue an unconditional apology to Ambassador Hardt and the people of the United States of America. APNU called her remarks, “vulgar and worse than useless.”
It is obvious that Mr. Granger either did not hear that speech, or he is deliberating spinning this to gain political advantage. There is nothing vulgar and useless about the truth.
Founding Leader of the PNC, Forbes Burnham would have been ashamed of Granger for allowing the American Ambassador to interfere with our internal affairs, and to disrespect our Head of State and country without closing ranks behind the Administration to give him the send-off he deserved. Burnham and Cheddi Jagan fought too hard for Guyana’s independence to allow foreign intervention to divide us as a people.
While it is true that the Minister was booed and heckled during the delivery of her speech, the ringleaders who instigated the chaos, calling for the Ambassador to revoke the Minister’s US visa, included a well-known provocateur and opponents of the government. If Forbes Burnham had delivered this same speech to the American Ambassador, they would have been cheering him on. Hypocrisy to say the least!
Minister Manickchand was asked to deliver the Government of Guyana’s official response to a meddling diplomat in the presence of persons experienced in the art of protesting and heckling. What other response could have been expected from such a gathering?
Surely it was in the interest of the opposition to make the government look bad. But it is a sad day indeed when our leading politicians and their sycophants compromise our democracy and the integrity of the principles our Founding Fathers fought for, to suck-up to foreign intervention for fear of losing their visas, or being denied one.
Dan Rahim
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