Donald Ramotar’s brother and Jagdeo’s confidante

Jul 03, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There is a group of people I refer to as supremacists in my columns. They see Guyana only through ethnic lenses. For these people, the PPP is always preferred to the PNC in the administration of state affairs. The AFC’s showing in the 2011 elections has brought out the worst tribalist attitudes in these supremacists. The smothering fear was that the AFC would take votes from the PPP’s rural castles, thus dissolving the PPP’s control over government. That happened in 2011, but dissolution didn’t come; only diminution.
In 2015, the tribalist fear went out of control. Swamis, columnists, journalists, novelists, professors, all went berserk over the thought that the end of the PPP was near because of the electoral coalition between the AFC and APNU. The form was the PPP, the substance was Indian control. The two met in a deadly confluence of supremacist mentality and ethnic fear. In Guyana, PPP means Indian reign. If the PPP goes, Indian rule falls. But history cannot be held back. Hegel would say that is a dialectical impossibility. In 2015 the PPP fell and took with it, ethnic domination.
Now the supremacists are in psychological turmoil. Since the PPP equals Indian hegemony, then if the PPP is weakened we might never see back that kind of hegemony we saw under Jagdeo and his sycophant, Donald Ramotar. The supremacists are jittery. How can you back a party that was corrupt when in office without weakening your case for continuation of ethnic triumphalism? Who wants to support leaders that are facing serious jail time because the evidence is mountainous?
The thing that is making the news at every street corner is the police interrogation of one of the main players in the PPP and a very close confidante of Bharrat Jagdeo. It is not good news for the supremacists. The fellow has been placed on station bail with the expectation that he will be charged. The sum involved is reportedly over 10 billion dollars and for the longest while this man has been a public servant. But here is where the story gets interesting.
He was a public servant running the affairs of the Office of the President as Permanent Secretary. Where would a PS get 10 billion dollars from? Nowhere in the world would you find a person going day in, day out to a public service job when he has 10 billion dollars in his account. Public servants once they become rich are glad to leave the banality of public service life. Bear in mind this 10-billion-dollar man worked for the Jagdeo Government, right in the heart of the Office of the President. Then to crown it all, he was a candidate for the PPP in the 2015 elections. This man is well placed in the home of the PPP.
The question on every Guyanese lips – whose money is it? Surely one cannot be that naïve to think it is his alone. If it is, then the science of business has been turned upside down. With the police questioning of this guy, are we on the verge of what we were all waiting for? The prosecution of those who used state finances to enrich themselves to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. Anyone who lived under the Jagdeo and Ramotar presidencies knew that mad stealing of state money was going on. But all Guyanese were pessimistic about justice, because the stealers were in power.
Making the news at the same time as the 10-billion-dollar man is a brother of Donald Ramotar. If what BK Tiwarie is saying about Ramotar’s brother is true, then the State has to move to reclaim these assets that belong to the future generation of Guyana. What do the supremacists have to say about this? Tiwarie cites three examples where Ramotar’s brother benefitted from the Ramotar presidency. Readers need to note that this is what Tiwarie is saying. For evidence, this is where SOCU and SARU come in.
The three examples are; 25 acres of GuySuCo land at Boerasirie on the West Coast (Demerara); spares for a barge totaling over 100 million, with questions about duty paid; the sale by NICIL of three barges and one tug for 20 million, and in turn Ramotar’s brother sold just one of the barges for 50 million.
We began with the supremacists and we will end with the supremacists. Should we support a party to win power and steal the country’s wealth simply because that party’s leadership is of the same ethnic make-up as us? Do people vote for politicians consciously knowing well that they are going to rob the country and put the money in their bank accounts?

1 thoughts on “Donald Ramotar’s brother and Jagdeo’s confidante”

19CAGriffith48 July 3, 2016 at 8:07 pm

“If what BK Tiwarie is saying about Ramotar’s brother is true, then the State has to move to reclaim these assets that belong to the future generation of Guyana.”

AMEN !
The future belongs to our CHILDREN !

Frederick my brother, keep the light shining.