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Jagdeo should not be placed to run a “salt goods shop”

Apr 23, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I am perplexed as to how the Guyanese population could sit by and allow a political mischief maker to essentially operate as though he is the functioning head of government for Guyana. This is a man with no shame. Yes we know him as the past and/or wanting to be the future President of Guyana, if he could be. How long would he be behaving as though he is the country’s leader, forgetting that he was warned, by many, that the Skeldon Sugar estate would have been a failure?
In about 2005, I wrote a letter informing Jagdeo that spending over $200 million US dollars to build a sugar estate is a waste of the country’s resources. He, being a practicing non-Economist, went ahead and borrowed to build that sugar estate.
To date, he does not get it, that certain expenses should not be incurred to build sugar estates when you currently have functioning sugar estates that could be made more effective with less than one-third of the monies invested to build the Skeldon Factory; the incurred savings could be more efficiently spent to provide more profitable economic entities.
Now after a complete failure, Jagdeo is again promising to fix the lavish monster he created. Jagdeo should not be placed to run a “salt goods shop” for he is living in the past and tends to think that Guyana does not have people with the acumen to decipher nonsensical arguments about a product that has lost its luster. In essence, Jagdeo thinks that the electorate is mentally lazy and would accept anything he espouses.
How many times should he be told that sugar is not a profitable commodity that warrants a large expenditure as an investment and especially when there are more pressing national wants and needs? For how long is he going to keep beating a dead horse, hoping that it would come to life and prove him correct in his non-visionary foresight?
I am not going to sit here and give a litany of failed examples of his regime. Let us move on and derive a national consensus about what is a pressing national need that will propel Guyana in its development, that all Guyanese could be proud of.
One of my concerns is why is Jagdeo so prominent in Guyana’s politics? He is more in the press than the current President. He is giving advice, lamenting even though his record is laced with failures. At times I tend to query who is the President of Guyana? And is Jagdeo running to be President of Guyana again?
I do hope that there would be a change in the list of protégés and protégées that serve under Jagdeo as the current government, thus causing my constructive criticism and lamentation about Guyana’s politicians to soon cease, because those entrusted to govern would view serving as an honour to cherish and preserve with the national admiration and not viewed as self-serving enrichment scheme.
Patrick Barker

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