The Prime Minister’s representative in Region 6 under fire

Sep 18, 2017 Letters

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Dear Editor,
Please permit me to share my views as to what is really taking place in Region 6 and more so to deal with letters that have been frequenting your newspaper for the past weeks by the PM’s representative in my Region. There is poor management of infrastructural works, poor management of D&I works, poor representation from both NDC and RDC councillors and sheer politicking.  Over the past years, we heard of corruption under the PPP which is very evident to date, but it is worst now under this government.
In this Region councilors just go to meetings to collect their stipends and maybe perks but no representation is happening at the RDC meetings for the ordinary citizens of Region 6.  The poor are getting poorer and the rich becoming monuments of riches (some poor politicians getting their perks to become the monument of richness also).
There is lack of sales, mostly crying vendors at Rose Hall and Port Mourant markets.  Sugar estates are being closed in Canje and Skeldon.  Rice farmers are feeling the heat on pricing and the recent flooding across the Region.  Cash crop farmers not able to sell their produce.
Yet for all when I read the letter of this PM rep it shocks me and better yet I am still trying to come to grips in understanding it; what really is he doing for the people of this Region to better their lives? When this man speaks about PPP councillors not doing what they have to, it tells me the same of him.  It seems as if he is on the opposite side because he does not visit communities unless the PM mandates him to go.
This man forgets that he is a Regional Councillor not a party councillor but yet writes or put his names on letters to the editor as an APNU+AFC Regional Councillor in Region 6.  Mr. Harbhajan needs to tell the nation and residents of Region 6 the truth.  How many times did he visit the NDCs across the Region as an RC?  When last, you and your party had a community meeting to listen to the cries of the people?  How many times did you carry yourself as RC to the people, rather than PM rep (which seems as a name used for gains and power)?
It struck me to know the length Mr. Harbhajan will go to cuss out some of the people and industries that he knows nothing about.  This man lived his life overseas.  He knows nothing about the rice, sugar, D&I and cash crop industries.  This RC has no standing to lecture to anyone of us that live and breathe in Guyana over the years.  He should rethink and restudy what was taking place in this land since he left Guyana. I was told by a very close friend of Mr. Harbhajan that the letters being published under his name are being constructed by the Prime Minister’s office and being sent to him to put his name.
When I speak to Mr. Harbjahan he does not construct sentences that I consider gramatically correct. There is a disjoint between the spoken grammar and the written grammar. Is there a story there? He can hardly tell the differences between API and sugar levy.  He could have hardly said the year that API was taken away from sugar workers and could not say what years was the sugar and rice industries most productive. Editor, it seems as if we are living in a world where people will do anything for a job or to retain their job.  I was told that the level of education\words display in those letters cannot come from this man. I would ask him to clarify.
Listen to him on TV and you will know that the man is power drunk.  But there seems to be more to Mr. Harbhajan’s portfolios as PM Rep and RC of Region 6. He seems to be a lobbyist for a well-known rice farmer and miller here in Region 6.  He is being seen around that business entity very often and dwells with the owners at various places. I met him at the horse race that was hosted by the said business family, where he was holding a trophy in the name of the PM’s rep. Editor, does this make sense?
We heard the big outcry that PM son in law is engaged as a facilitator between an Indian Company and Guysuco for the purchasing of Skeldon Factory.  Weeks after, we heard that the management of the largest rice milling complexes in Region 6 and Berbice is interested in the said factory. Why is it that the said rice company had no interest all the time before or is this an under the bed sheet deal again?  It seems clear that the facilitator has now become the PM rep. in my Region.  That is not all, even the canal and all weather road that was in the public domain a few months back, Mr. Harbhajan is being seen in a photograph with the said farmers in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture.
Mr. Harbhajan needs to visit cash crop farmers across the Region, rather than to be bragging of being the PM’s rep.  I wish that the letter writers will be looser in words when they are writing for Mr. Harbhajan, because I am sure he does not know the meaning for some of the words.  Be more cautious when writing letters in this RC’s name, because the man knows nothing about the history of Guyana.
Jaipaul Suenarine

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