Tattered, torn, terrible clothes

Apr 22, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

What must be one of the most shocking examples of barefaced deception in the delinquency of the human mind is the announcement by the PPP that if elected there would be a development fund for Berbice. The question that flies into your mind instantly is that the PPP was elected to government five times since 1992 yet there was never a development fund for Berbice or Essequibo where they got the bulk of their votes.
Why after an election in 2015, there would be a development fund?
It burdens the mind with pessimism to think that there are people in Berbice who would believe this. And yes there are such people. But of course there are others too sensible, too sane, to voluntarily walk into the PPP’s kingdom of slaves.
Whoever advises the PPP leadership is incompetent. An incumbent government doesn’t have the semantic space to manoeuvre in an election campaign as its opponents who haven’t been in power. This limitation in rhetoric by the incumbent must always be borne in mind, because the accusation is never far away that when you were in power you didn’t do what you say you would.
This doesn’t deter the PPP. It continues with its never-ending motto of “judge us on our record.” Every PPP leader goes to PPP rallies and roadside campaign meetings and repeats that motto. And it is silly rhetoric, because the record is tattered, torn and terrible and best not spoken about.
What is the record of the PPP? Its election campaign is fronted by a former president who had twelve years in power. His right hand man, Donald Ramotar, had more than twelve years of tenure as a Board member of Guysuco. The third in line in campaign activities is Clement Rohee. He has been a Cabinet member for twenty-three years.
What has been the record of these men? Sugar has been in trouble for the fifteen years the Jagdeo/Ramotar combination has been in office. The largest state investment in the history of this country is the Skeldon sugar factory. This entity is yet to bring in even a penny in profits.
Reeling from a devastated sugar industry, Berbicians were given a bridge over the river. But the money came mostly from the NIS which severely threatens its very existence because of that loss and a further six billion dollars invested in CLICO which was lost too. Elated that they got a bridge, Berbicians woke one morning to find that the tolls were perhaps the highest for a bridge anywhere in the world.
What is Mr. Rohee’s record? A survey by Vanderbilt University revealed that out of 28 countries in this hemisphere, the police force that was the least trusted is the one from Guyana. Mr. Rohee presides over the worst crime pandemic in the history of this country. If there is any record to go by, it is the breakdown of law and order under the PPP Government. This is a country where any hit-man can kill his victim with impunity; where any businessman could be robbed and killed at any time on a bright sunny day in front of hundreds of passersby.
Most Guyanese know who the large drug traffickers and money-launderers are, but to date not one big fish has been caught in the net. This columnist has incontrovertible evidence of drug trafficking by a well known female citizen. He also has evidence of the official protection she receives.
What is the PPP’s record on health? People die from medical problems at the Georgetown Public Hospital that even in countries wrecked by civil war you won’t find such medical incompetence. The Accident and Emergency section of the hospital has one of the most sordid balance sheets in the entire territory of Guyana.
You fall sick and you have a little savings, you will spend it to go to a private hospital, not to the Georgetown Public Hospital. You cannot afford private treatment then pray to God that he intervenes to save you if you are a patient at the Georgetown Hospital. After fifteen years of Jagdeo and Ramotar, Burnham’s beautiful university at Turkeyen has collapsed.
The Judicial system is a nightmare. If there is a record that the PPP has, then it does not exist in the judicial system in Guyana. You look around this tragic land and you see all the signs of moral breakdown. But as the campaign winds down to May 11, the PPP leaders tell their audiences to judge them by their record. What a stupendous irony.
Once you judge them by that record then you will gladly vote them out.

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