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Jan 12, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
In 2015 and beyond, all of Guyana must seek to deepen its focus on national healing, reconciliation and forgiveness as it holds true to the tenet that development cannot take place without inclusivity and national consensus across all sectors irrespective of race, colour, creed or class.
In the meantime, I believe that you will find the recent, damning revelations of how corruption at the highest levels of the Government of Guyana, in cahoots with our ‘Chinese friends,’ literally robbed the second poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere of more than US $30 million in the so called Lethem to Georgetown Terrestrial Fiber Optic Cable with no one being held accountable. Even the proverbial road to hell has been paved with the best of intentions.
It was not too long ago that the publisher, editor and reporters of the courageous Kaieteur News were allegedly threatened with physical violence by none less than the country’s Attorney General and whose utterances were recorded and released to the world at large. However, the nominal Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has said there is nothing to charge the Attorney General with. There have been strong demands for the state’s chief legal eagle to resign and this has come from the likes of the Guyana Human Rights Association, the local law association and civil society as a whole but to no avail.
If one ever thought that Afghanistan was a bad place then they could very much view Kabul as a sane prelude to Georgetown, Guyana. This place takes the crown so to speak when it comes to unspeakable acts of corruption, nepotism, cronyism, misguided jingoism, necromancy, and one can even throw in necrophilia and reported acts of anthropophagy for good measure.
The recent utterances of none less than President Ramotar (‘El Loco Presidente’) about ‘slapping an Amerindian citizen because he was stupid’ is another sadistic display of the abuse of state powers against innocent, defenseless citizens and more so a racial minority group in a multiracial society. This is an assault on democracy and human dignity. In fact, the presidential guards at the public meeting in Aishalton reportedly slapped the poor Amerindian teacher and literally kicked him out of the meeting for merely exercising his democratic right to freedom of expression as enshrined in Guyana’s constitution. Word has it that he is now facing the serious prospect losing his job at worse or being transferred to some remote corner of the country at best.
Worst yet is that President Ramotar had the gumption and audacity to speak of the late Mahatma Gandhi in glowing terms at the recently concluded Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in India where he (Ramotar) was the Chief Guest.
Hopefully, he would have learnt at least something about the peaceful and non-violent nature of “Bapu” which in turn inspired both the late Martin Luther King Jr. in his struggles for civil rights in the United States and the late Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela in his struggle against apartheid for human justice and equality in South Africa.
The theme of the just concluded Indian Diaspora Day (PBD) in India was ‘Be The Change…You Want To See’ and hopefully President Ramotar will seek wise counsel in this recent visit to India by learning to be respectful to his fellow citizens, and failing which, he should be stripped of the recent award he has received from the Government and People of India. No ifs, ands or buts in this regard.
Please note that this latest vile act by President Ramotar will not sit well with the Amerindian community at large as they have grown tired of being the punching bag of every bloody politician in this God forsaken country.
We must continuously expose this latest act of brazen if not unparalleled grand larceny to the world at large as it relates to the disastrous US $30 million plus bogus telecoms undertaking spearheaded by one Alexei Ramotar whose only claim to fame is that he is the son of the President. to add insult to injury – the President’s daughter is now the General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board  and  better suited it seems from her utterances to ‘baking’ versus leading the once lucrative gold mining sector.
This country is highly reminiscent of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.
 Mother Sally

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