Guyana has very serious economic, political and social challenges

Sep 01, 2014 Letters

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Dear Editor,
Governments exist to do the things necessary to allow citizens the best quality of life and to make them happy. The need for security of the person and the State is paramount. The ability of the citizen to realize his or her full potential is among the highest needs in any civilized society. Several countries have captured this importance by establishing the Happiness Index. The state of mind of their citizens is measured by how happy they are. The government delivers all the support to allow for this. However, in Guyana, the minority PPP regime seems to do the exact opposite because they prefer to see the poor live in misery.
Guyana has very serious economic, political and social challenges. We are sure that each citizen now knows just how large the problems are. The country’s productivity is dismally low and the currency is not stable. A vote on the no confidence motion is looming and instead the PPP takes it seriously, they are considering taking the issue to court. This is the most backward, primitive and oppressive regime in all of Latin America. If the PPP cabal does not know that a government has to resign and call new elections when a no confidence is passed against it, then they do not deserve to be in power. How foolish can they be? And for the DO-THING PRESIDENT to ask Brigadier Granger to return the weapons that were allegedly given to the PNC almost 40 years ago shows how incompetent this man is. He has not only disgraced Guyana but both him and Jagdeo are considered the two worst presidents in the history of Guyana.
This is a scenario that calls for the nation to rally against the corrupt and incompetent PPP regime which has been in power for 22 years and does not have a clue how to govern in the interests of all. There is no one in the Government who is capable of motivating the population. No one is telling the people the truth, and almost all of them are raping the treasury. The people are fed-up listening to their lying excuses and their propaganda stories. They are fed up with them taking from the poor and the working class and giving to their rich friends. The people are fed-up because they are being ignored by the PPP cabal who put their financial interests and those of their friends first and not the people and country.
During the 2011 elections campaign, the PPP told the people that if elected, it would create jobs for the youths and improve the lives of the poor and the working class. In the next breath, they have told the people that the economy is developing at five percent per year and revenues have increased fivefold and the debt has been drastically reduced. But the reality is the economy is developing at only 3.5 percent, the debt is growing larger by the day and they have not created or provided any jobs for the youths. The PPP regime continues to borrow as there is no tomorrow.
The PPP regime continues to act in an immoral and bullying manner. Just listen to the senseless comments from the Minister of Home Affairs. His statements have revealed how disconnected they are from the masses. We want Rohee to tell the people why his VISA was revoked by the U.S government; who was responsible for the extra-judicial murders of over 400 Guyanese and why he sidelined Assistant Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine two years ago. We want him to tell the people what happened to the $60 million that was to provide meals to the police during the 2011 elections.
These Freedom House GANGSTERS will never admit that UG has collapsed; the public hospitals are in dire need of drugs, nurses and qualified doctors; the public schools are without basic supplies, and the teachers, nurses and civil servants are paid slave-like wages. They continue to waste the taxpayers’ money on projects where they have received huge kick-backs such as the Marriott Hotel, the Specialty Hospital and the building of a new airport. Why would they waste hundreds of millions of the taxpayers’ money on the Rodney COI and not a dime to investigate how the former Agriculture Minister Sash Sawh was assassinated? Sash Sawh was one of their own and the fact that they have refused to investigate how he was killed is because it was alleged that they are the culprits.
And while all this is happening, the AFC is gaining in strength and popularity and is doing everything to rid the country of this corrupt regime. But the indecisive majority opposition, APNU huffs and puffs at the failures of the PPP regime but fails miserably to take decisive action against it. The Procurement Commission is not in existence. The Integrity Commission is not an independent entity and the DPP office is politically compromised and so is the judiciary, yet APNU has no strategic plan to deal with these issues.
After 22 years of PPP rule, the vast majority of Guyanese are not in a good mood, especially during the last pathetic 12 years of Jagdeo’s misrule and the first three years of maladministration by the Ramotar gang. In almost every village in Guyana, the PPP is losing support to the AFC. As a result there is a growing sense of frustration and uneasiness among party leaders. They do not want Ramotar to be the next Presidential candidate for the PPP. This is very good news for Khemraj Ramjattan, Moses Nagamootoo and Nigel Hughes who have become the three most popular political leaders in Guyana. The PPP does not want an election now even if the government is defeated by the “no confidence” vote because they will receive a sound trashing from the electorate, including their own supporters. The people salute the AFC for going forward with the no confidence motion. They want those bastards out of office now.
Asquith Rose and Harish Singh

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