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The utterings of Donald Ramotar

Dec 10, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Saturday was a momentous day for Guyana. It marked the first time a dictatorship was formally established in this country. That never happened under the PNC and never happened in Guyana since the granting of adult suffrage to Guyanese.
Imagine the PPP came to power in 1992 boasting of having brought back democracy to Guyana and labelling Burnham a dictator. In all his years Burnham never formally established one-man rule in the country of my birth even though he never boasted of embracing democracy. The old folks say “live and learn”. We have indeed learned. They also say “time is longer than twine” and “every long rope has an end.” The President of Guyana will do well to heed these sayings.
I hope that President Ramotar does not believe that he is in any way fooling thinking Guyanese when he said, “I have considered and I have consulted and this is my resolve. We will go to elections. I have also since written to the international community alerting them to the possibility of early elections and the desire for them to field observer missions,” and “quite likely that an announcement would be made before the 2015 Budget, during his New Year’s address or before Republic Day Mashramani celebrations on February 23, 2015.”
Firstly, those statements are so devoid of substance that any fool can see that Ramotar has no intention to go to elections. Donald Ramotar and his colleagues in the PPP are so duplicitous and morally corrupt that anyone who believes them, needs to have his head examined.
Secondly, this is a man who on more than one occasions chided the American Ambassador for “meddling” in Guyana’s affairs. One of his underlings even went so far as to brazenly go to the Ambassador’s residence and verbally abuse him for “meddling”.
Yet he had the gall to tell Guyanese on Saturday afternoon that he had already alerted the international community of his intention to hold elections next year before even letting the public of Guyana know of his intention. This is the man who decries “meddling” by outsiders. Never before has such depravity visited the corridors of power in Guyana.
Let me end this letter by saying that I have occasionally looked at soldiers being sworn into the American Armed Forces in movies. I have no doubt that those portrayals imitate what actually happens, and I noted that the first oath the new members of the Armed Forces take on those occasions is to protect the Constitution of United States of America.
Lance McCaskey  

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