Guyanese will have to decide what to do with Donald and his administration

Jan 05, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Donald Ramotar and the PPP administration have not announced a date for early elections in their New Year’s message.
If the character and agenda of him and the PPP are anything to go by, this delay will continue indefinitely. This flies in the face of the will of the people and denies them their right to vote and elect a new and more effective Government.
Therefore, with the onset of the New Year, Guyanese will have to decide what to do with Donald and his administration, since the corruption and injustices previously perpetrated by the PPP now have little chance of being challenged and addressed with the proroguing of Parliament.

Exposing himself more recently as a slippery, unsavory character more at home with rum shop politics and abusing the ordinary Guyanese citizen, Donald Ramotar has definitely become a member of Jagdeo’s A-team, meaning that he, like the good Minister of Finance, has trampled his honor, integrity and responsibility as the President and leader of Guyana and upholder of its democracy by denying the will of the people for a call of early elections, in favor of prolonging his term in office to pursue Jagdeo’s agenda of further pillage and hiving off of our financial and other resources.
His recent push for the start of the Amaila Falls project for which I, to date have yet to see a feasibility study being made public, the very same study being sought by the IDB, to the best of my recent knowledge, clearly points to this claim of following Jagdeo’s ‘development agenda’ along the lines of Skeldon’s busted US$200 million sugar factory. Jagdeo’s grand idea (which it is) of the Berbice Bridge also involved the financial bedevilment of the National Insurance Scheme, in addition to its heavy tax on Berbicians and others travelling.
The PPP’s corruption, its injustices against our citizens, the criminality within its ranks, and the recent violation of our democratic rights are the very real issues we as a people need to consider and take stock of at this point in time.
We have a clear, hard decision to make, the delay of which will further strengthen their resolve to ride roughshod over us. And it is this outcome that we cannot tolerate at any cost. (This is the idea that the PPP does not want Guyanese to consider.)
Our choices are clear in the circumstances. To end Donald’s proroguing and the PPP’s corruption in government, the APNU and AFC will first have to meet to agree that the PPP will have to be forced out of office.
Secondly, they solicit support from the unions and the wider society, then move to shut down the operations of the public service by calling a strike to force Donald to set a date for elections.
Once this is established, then the strike can be suspended. If the PPP decides to further disregard our calls to restore our democracy, then our case against them is clear.
The fundamental question at hand is: Do we allow the PPP’s corruption, injustices, and its trampling of our democratic rights to continue?
Craig Sylvester

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