The PPP does not embrace change, it is about the past, not the present

Apr 09, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
We are absolutely convinced that Guyana had reached rock bottom as the people grimaced in pain under the venom of invectives hurled at Brigadier Granger and Moses Nagamootoo by Jagdeo who upstaged Ramotar at Babu Jaan and at the rally in Kitty. It was like a diabolical edict issued from on high to savage the good name of the leaders of the Coalition at all costs.
The depth to which Jagdeo and the PPP leadership descend leaves nothing to the imagination. It was grossly ugly and deceitful for them to distort the facts and soil the reputation of a future President and Prime Minister.
It is pathetic to know that the PPP cannot campaign on their poor track record of 22 years. Instead, they have continued to drag the late Forbes Burnham’s name into the mud as they have done in previous elections. This election should not be about the era of Burnham who died 30 years ago. But the PPP is about the past and not the present, and this is why their campaign is about the 1970s and not since 1999 to the present when Jagdeo came to power.
Faced with the inevitability of defeat at the polls on May 11, the leaders of the PPP, especially Jagdeo, have desperately catapulted to raking and scraping every molecule in or out of sight in the most unsavory manner to brutalize the unblemished character of two distinguished sons of the soil in whom all the patriotic citizens in particular, and Guyanese in general, are irresistibly pleased.
The PPP’s naked exploitation of the most vulnerable men and women in society is a clear sign of desperation. The people saw their vicious attacks on the leaders of the Coalition as the straw that broke the camel’s back. It is deplorably dehumanizing for them and even for some members of the PPP to see the hatred and racism being spewed by Jagdeo, who did not even spare the deceased Courtney Crum-Ewing.
It is as if they are about to destroy the leaders of the Coalition by invoking the race card and their malicious vendetta against them. During the Jagdeo/Ramotar reign, national priorities have been subordinated to unfettered parochialism. Graft and corruption poisoned the land.
Nepotism, cronyism and corruption infected the institutions of government. Instability and insecurity run amok as crime, especially armed robbery and murders, have escalated, and the institutions of governance have disintegrated beyond recognition.
Morality and integrity are held in arrogant disdain as the unscrupulous leaders have stealthily superimposed themselves upon the people and the nation’s resources and finances. They have become the dictatorial masters and not the servants of the people, defended the indefensible, discriminated against their political opponents, marginalized a large section of the population, and abandoned the noble tenets of principles of fairness and good governance. Threats to life and limb know no boundaries, as the Freedom House gang stripped the people of their naked rights to speak out and protest against wrongdoing. They have coveted the country’s best lands, actually gave the nation’s resources to their rich friends, sold state properties to their relatives and friends at far below the market value, pawned Guyana’s pristine forests to foreigners and destroyed the sugar and rice industry.
They seek no interest other than to devour the wealth of the land to which they owe no allegiance or loyalty whatsoever. Despite the devastating and horrifying attacks and criticism heaped upon the leaders of the opposition by the delinquent cabal, the people have conscientiously and lovingly embraced Granger and Nagamootoo and the change they seek if elected to office on May 11.
As the poor masses cry out for salvation, the feet of wisdom, understanding, intellectualism and integrity shall lead them graciously to the Promised Land. It is time for change.
Asquith Rose
Chandra Deolall
Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks

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