Guyana – The Western Hemisphere’s Failed State

Dec 01, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
With each passing day, each passing scandal and each dot that connects the PPP government directly or tangentially to convicted or alleged criminals caught in the United States, it becomes harder to find the correct adjective to describe this unearthly band of brigands that have their fetid and corrupt hands strangling the life out of a once proud nation.
There is no core, no center, no corner, no scheme that the PPP has embarked on that could or should lead to development for the benefit of all Guyanese that has not become enmeshed in corruption, allegation of corruption, vindictiveness, lawlessness and ties to criminals.
Roger Khan pledged fealty to Jagdeo’s PPP. Khan was subsequently convicted of trafficking in cocaine in the United States and the PPP publicly walked away from him. Ed Ahmad provided shipping containers with items to Jagdeo’s PPP.
Ahmad was subsequently convicted of mortgage fraud. Ahmad became a wealthy land owner of former GUYSUCO lands in Guyana and when the stuff hit the fan, the PPP publicly walked away from him. Peter Morgan, Barry Dataram, Sonny Ramdeo and a long list of who’s of who’s on the rogue’s gallery of today’s Guyanese “business” titans that are celebrated by the PPP but have the stench of illegality attached to their ventures but are embraced by the PPP and their supporters.
Mind you, this does not include the recent admission by the Attorney General, Guyana’s top law enforcement officer, of his unauthorized use of state funds for personal use and his having knowledge of imminent threats to the lives and business of Kaieteur News, a vocal critic of the government.
So now we’ve come to the latest but sure not the last notch in the PPP’s belt of criminals and those associated with criminality, one Khamraj Lall, currently detained on charges in the USA for currency smuggling.
Lall, who is a pilot, was allegedly paid by the PPP government to shuttle puppet president Ramotar on official state visits outside of Guyana.
From all accounts, Lall owns a tremendous edifice situated on Timheri airport that is the site of his private jet operations but none of the regulatory agencies can tell you who gave Lall permission to erect, license and operate this business; the type of business that if not properly regulated, overseen and inspected; is the ideal vehicle for gold, currency, drug, human and arms trafficking.
A fact not lost on the corruption-friendly PPP, however, unlike Jagdeo who when he realized his gift of Sanata Textiles complex to his bosom buddy Bobby Ramroop was illegal, he had parliament fix his error but puppet Ramotar doesn’t have such luxury given that he prorogued parliament, he’ll have to fix pilot Lall’s lacuna by presidential decree.
Today I saw on television violent protests erupt in Haiti because it’s been THREE YEARS since their president held constitutionally due Local Government Elections. This is in a country that is the perennial “poor man” of the entire Caribbean that has had to deal with unimaginable natural disasters and outbreak of disease in the past decade.
Meanwhile, in Guyana, where those same elections have not been held in almost TWO DECADES, the spineless opposition is still asking the PPP to please hold Local Government Elections. Democracy matters. Justice and democracy cannot be just done but seen to be done.
I ask myself, what is wrong with Guyana and Guyanese that they cannot and will not seek and extract the justice they deserve by holding the PPP accountable for the atrocities they’ve committed?
Nigel Jason

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