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Mar 18, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Based on his recent columns in this paper, Ralph Seeram seems to want to add to the perception that some in the diaspora have lost touch with what is going on in Guyana.
How can Ralph Seeram, after claiming that he is from Berbice, say with a straight face that the PPP does not benefit from racial voting but that the PNC does?  The facts speak for themselves which is why some seek to hide the facts.
The preliminary report of the last census of Guyana (Sept 2012) has all kinds of fancy graphs and tables but nothing about the racial composition of the Guyanese population. The 2002 figures which are in the CIA Factbook on Guyana show this: East Indian 43.5%; African 30.2%; mixed 16.7%, Amerindian, 9.1%, other 0.5%.
The PPP is in desperation mode because its policies have led to the loss of some of its assumed base to the AFC, and the APNU. The only hope is to try to maximize division in Guyana hence the speech by Jagdeo on March 8, and the likely the shooting of Courtney Crum-Ewing. To say as Seeram does that the death of Crum-Ewing is clearly not in the best interests of the PPP is to ignore the hard calculations of a desperate party.
One which tolerates an Attorney General who said that he is aware of some with guns who would use them if they feel that is their only hope. Think through the scenarios Ralph and come to conclusions based on the numbers.
Then ask yourself this simple question: how does the AFC-APNU coalition benefit from distracting voters from the corruption, poor government services, executive lawlessness, exclusion from development that is the bounty of the Jagdeo/Ramota administrations? Or ask yourself this question: who benefits from taking voters’ thoughts away from those issues just listed?
Fitzgerald Yaw

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