For the PPP some Guyanese are lower animals?

Dec 03, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Maybe you are not familiar with the name Hydar Ally the way you are with Anil Nandlall . But Mr. Ally is a long serving apparatchik of the PPP. He held some very important positions in the 23-year-old government of the PPP beginning in 1992 when Dr. Jagan became President. Since the PPP lost power in May 2015, Mr. Ally has been writing letters to every daily newspaper. There are times in this newspaper when he would publish two letters a week.
In the ocean of letters printed so far, Mr. Ally has not devoted even a single line to a mistake or a violation or an egregious wrong or an act of victimization in the entire 23 years of the exercise of state power.
The next frequent letter writer is Anil Nandlall. He may be running neck and neck with Ally for frequent appearance in the newspapers. Coming up right behind is former President Donald Ramotar. He is in front of Clement Rohee who just penned a letter using poetic lyrics about sadness that awaits Guyana in the lust for power by ruling politicians. Obviously Rohee doesn’t count his fellow dinosaurs that ruled Guyana for 23 years as ever being driven by the lust for power as if during that time I lived in Timbuktu.
The infamous Jagdeo does not send letters to the newspapers; he holds weekly press conferences in which amnesia and fictions dominate. He cannot remember the depraved policies he implemented when he was in power. For example, he didn’t know about the NIS investment in the construction of the Berbice Bridge. One acknowledges that he/she is a complete jackass if one believes that Jagdeo didn’t know that when he was President. In fact, it was Jagdeo who authorized the NIS investment.
This column here is the beginning of a series which will not be structured in sequential order; I will do them from time to time. I will pull from current history, acts of vicious nastiness by the PPP Government, going way back from President Jagan and ending with the ignominious loss of power by Donald Ramotar. My memory falls on young, bright attorney Gino Persaud. I taught Gino at UG and it was clear to me that he would turn out to be an excellent practitioner of law.
Gino Persaud’s only crime against President Ramotar was that he became the head of Transparency Institute of Guyana. Gino was offered a job by a foreign company, Credit Bureau, that was opening up a business here. Credit Bureau made a vital error. It should have received its license approval before it employed Gino Persaud as its CEO. Instead it sent Gino to Slovakia and Holland to receive training. The Ramotar Government then told Credit Bureau, it would not grant a license to a foreign company with an anti-government CEO. That was the end of Gino Persaud’s stint with Credit Bureau.
Next on the list is Ms. Gail Teixeira. I saw Ms. Texieira shove a list in front the face of Vice Chancellor of UG, Lawrence Carrrington. With her Canadian accent, she told Carrington, I want the contract of these four lecturers to be terminated. Sitting next to Carrington was the then head of the Caribbean Development Bank and Chancellor of UG, Compton Bourne. Bourne looked at Carrington, Carrington looked at Bourne, and Carrington simply collected the list. Then came the voice of the then Permanent Secretary of the Education Ministry, Phulander Khandai. Using grammar that was atrocious, he told Carrington, the termination should be done the next day.
Next is Genevieve Whyte-Nedd, then Chief Education Officer (CEO). Priya Manichand, as Education Minister, refused to confirm her. No reason was given. As she neared retirement, her benefits would suffer because she would end her stint without being substantial CEO. Ms. Whyte-Nedd was not that lucky.
One hopes this woman is given justice and her full benefits are paid to her. Next is Ingrid Griffith of the GRA. She acted as Trade Commissioner (in charge of customs and excise; operation on the wharves) on two occasions totaling three years. When it was time to find a Trade Commissioner, the Jagdeo Government brought a retired army officer, Chabilal Ramsarup, and offered him the job though he had nil experience in Customs operations.
I have cited just four examples of the depraved attitudes of the PPP Government. Today, these very vultured politicians who sit in the opposition are the biggest voices and the largest writers of newspaper letters condemning what they describe as victimizations and violations of the government. Maybe the PPP victims deserved what they got; they were lower animals.

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