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The Ramotar siblings: The mind is a dangerous thing

Jul 22, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

My problem with Alexei Ramotar, son of former President Donald Ramotar, is both personal and political. Personal in the sense that in 2010, Alexei Ramotar, was involved in an accident right outside the home of my nephew in which my nephew’s right leg was crushed. Mr. Ramotar was never charged. My analysis of the accident put him in the wrong, but the police felt otherwise and did not charge him.
My nephew was a mere pump attendant earning forty thousand dollars a month and had to feed two daughters and a wife. He was laid up for one full year. Alexei Ramotar and his father never showed even a tiny spark of generosity by a mere visit or a small donation.
Unknown to me, my nephew visited Donald Ramotar, who at the time was the General-Secretary of the PPP. Mr. Ramotar refused to see him and requested security to escort my nephew out of Freedom House.
It was about 7 pm that night when I got a call from him, telling me he visited Ramotar and Ramotar insulted him. I remember the night so vividly. I was outside Kaieteur News on the pavement.
Every person in this world who has encountered me knows I am incapable of few decibels. The shout I gave to my nephew almost brought out the Kaieteur News staff on the road. So much for the personal; now for the political.
Alexei Ramotar has stated that his forced leave was politically determined. In yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, he continued and exclaimed that his critics need to educate themselves, and that they have vilified him out of anti-PPP sentiments.
We will return to Alexei Ramotar below after an examination of a statement his sister, Lisaveta made to this newspaper.
First, she stated that her brother’s critics needed to know that he went to one of the best universities in the world. What the Ramotar girl did not tell her readers was the procedures her brother went through to obtain his education at “one of the best universities in the world.”
Did he get a state scholarship? If yes, how and why? Was there a competitive application system? Did he finance himself? Was it a scholarship from international sources that had to be sanctioned by the Guyana Government?
Secondly, the Ramotar girl was furious with her critics who said that she got her employment because of her father’s status. What the Ramotar girl did not tell her readers was if for all the jobs she possessed, including administrator of the Justice Improvement Project funded by the USAID, she competed for them. One person told me that a law degree was vital to run the Justice Improvement Project, a background Ms. Ramotar lacks.
Furious with her critics, Ms. Ramotar made another exclamation. She said that as a Guyanese she was entitled to be employed just as every other citizen. The trouble with that observation is if as the daughter of the PPP leader and President of Guyana she was entitled to employment, how does she feel about others that her father’s government victimized and denied?
I taught Ms. Ramotar at UG and I am sure she found me a competent lecturer. I am still to receive a reason for the termination of my contract which the Ombudsman’s legal advisors advised was legally improper.
Finally, Ms. Ramotar further pointed out that she is finely qualified with two Masters, one of which was a Chevening Scholarship awarded through the UK High Commission, the other Ms. Ramotar should provide some details for.
Back to Alexei Ramotar and how dangerous a mind can be. Mr. Ramotar was an election candidate in 2015, yet at the same time held a top public service job. But Karen Cummings, the current Junior Minister of Health, was sacked as the Medical Director for Region Four in 2011 because she was a candidate on APNU’s list for the 2011 general elections. She was dismissed by the very PPP that Alexei Ramotar was willing to serve as a politician by entering the list as an election candidate. How does young Ramotar feel about that?
The trouble with the mind is that it deceives its possessor. This is where the mind becomes dangerous. The mind tells us what we want it to tell us. The obvious implication is that we are out of touch with reality; we cannot see the real world. Does Alexei Ramotar believe that his critics are motivated by anti-PPP venom and that his forced leave is a political scandal?
If Alexei Ramotar really believes that then he is fooling himself. He needs help and fast.

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