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Today in Berbice, the limitation of the human mind will be on display

Mar 08, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I could understand a fourteen-year-old boy from Africa who doesn’t like white people. I could understand a thirteen-year-old Arab girl who doesn’t like dark-skinned people. I could understand a 15-year-old Jewish boy who doesn’t like Russian people.
At that age, what do they know about life? All they know is what they heard elders said. Elders who may have had an unfortunate incident involving race hate.
But how do you explain the stupidity of a 25-year-old university graduate, a forty-five year-old mature businessman, a sixty-year-old man who traveled and learned about the world, a seventy-year-old woman with grandchildren who has seen what life is, when they listen and accept the lies their leaders have been churning out for twenty-three years?
If there is any spectacle on earth that displays the limitation of the human mind it is the yearly Berbice death anniversary of Cheddi Jagan, where flawed, failed, facinorous, fallacious, fetid and fascist mandarins of the Guyanese abyss will deliver their yearly concatenations of diseased fictions to sections of this tragic country. Sections that ought to know better, but are hopelessly trapped in a time machine, where the mind becomes a brew that even Macbethian witches will find sickening.
Today in Berbice, Bharrat Jagdeo, Clement Rohee, Gail Teixeira, Donald Ramotar and others who have destroyed the Guyanese society and the territory of Guyana, will invoke the name of Cheddi Jagan and tell Berbicians that they represent the legacy of Cheddi Jagan. Cheddi Jagan’s only two children have manifested utter revulsion of what these mandarins have done to their father’s name and their parents’ party.
But it is more than the condemnations of the two Jagan children. It is the sheer weight of the phantasmagoria of deceit, deception, desecration and destruction that have so saturated this country that the mind of the average Berbician cannot be so limited that logic, reason and commonsense have gone out of their lives.
The story of this country the past fifteen years under Messrs Jagdeo and Ramotar is the tale of quick destruction that has few parallels in 20th century history. Within the space of fifteen years, Guyana has endured a virtual demise of huge blocks of public life. Are Berbicians telling the world they have been exempted from the spiraling insanities?
If they say they have, then either they are fools, Pavlovian creatures or people without minds. After twenty-three years of PPP domination, Berbice has the appearance of an underdeveloped land. Where is the visible modernization of Berbice? It was only in 2014 that Berbicians got a passport office, and it doesn’t function daily. It was only in 2014 that Berbicians could have secured a driver’s licence from Berbice itself, and it cannot be renewed at the central office in Georgetown.
Berbicians cannot be that stupid not to know that state-provided health insurance is a country’s most valued institution. In poor states like Guyana, national insurance is the means to survive from your sixties onwards. All signs point to the NIS running out of money in four years’ time. Berbicians prefer their children to be doctors and lawyers. Those two programmes are only offered at UG in Georgetown. Words cannot describe the atrocious state of UG. The point is, Berbicians have been painfully affected by the decline of Guyana under a party they have consistently voted for.
Will Berbicians believe the PPP leaders today when they regurgitate things that just do not exist? Do they actually believe the bridge toll is the same as when there was the ferry? Do they actually believe that the PPP cannot do anything about the crime madness in Berbice? Do they believe that the poorer sections of the Berbice population benefited from the twelve years of Mr. Jagdeo’s domination?
If anything can be said about Mr. Jagdeo that is visible as fireworks lighting up the night sky, it is that he was a leader who favoured the business community and the wealthy elites. Mr. Jagdeo did not hide or camouflage his pro-business mentality. He was always open about favouring the wealthy class, and he made it public that these people were his closest intimates.
Today at Babu John, Berbicians will hear a song long sung out, a bell long rung out. It will be the invocation of a government long, long gone – the PNC under Forbes Burnham. Mr. Burnham died when almost half of the Guyanese population weren’t born or were just born. Do Berbicians have the stomach for this rotten mess? If they do, they don’t have normal minds.

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