The PPP’s misrule: factuality and destruction

Jul 19, 2018 News

How many years will it take before the manifestations of the cruel, maddening, philistine misrule of the PPP disappears from the landscape of this nation?
This column was motivated by a sad thing I heard on Tuesday from an employee of the Ogle airport. Eight Venezuelan refugees were seriously injured when the vehicle carrying them toppled over on the Lethem Road. They were flown to Georgetown for medical treatment
By now many Guyanese would have seen the photos in the newspaper of how many vehicles turned over or were seriously stuck in the mud. I was told that you have to see these interior roads with your own eyes to relate to the horrible conditions they are in, because describing them wouldn’t bring home the correct image.
When you read and hear about these things and you read Mr. Jagdeo saying that he will play a part in any future PPP government, you have to despair for this country. The interior of Guyana is vast, with magnificent potential. Commercial transactions in the interior are a major part of Guyana’s economy. How could any government, knowing the economic links of Guyana’s interior with a major world power like Brazil, have just sat there and did absolutely nothing about these roads.
And to think there are congenital fools in this country that are going to use the tragedy of those eight Venezuelans and the images of falling trucks to indict the coalition government that is a mere three years old. Guess how many years in the presidency Jagdeo had – twelve. Ramotar had four. The interior roads that facilitate commerce in the interior were in those terrible conditions under both Jagdeo and Ramotar.
There is a newly arrived circus in Guyana. It is called the Private Sector Commission. By what medical procedure they found their voices, we may never know, but they have found their voices and the echoes are reverberating. The business personnel in the Private Sector Commission are now the lecturers in economics. They may well leave their enterprises and turn up as professors in economics at UG.
Where were the eyes and voices and pens of these circus performers when the interior roads were disintegrating under Jagdeo and Ramotar? Ask all these gargantuan supporters of Bharrat Jagdeo when he was president if they castigated him for taking 60 million American dollars and building a Marriott Hotel. Why did Guyana need a State-financed Marriott Hotel when our only university was facing ruin?
One of the most important degree programmes at UG is medicine. This is an area of study that is important for poor, post-colonial states, because the cost to pursue a five-year bachelor in medicine in Canada, Europe and the US is virtually impossible for even middle class families. You have to be very wealthy to finance your child’s five-year study in medicine in a foreign country. It was under Jagdeo and Ramotar that UG’s degree in medicine lost its certification, meaning international recognition. It has since been restored, in 2015.
These are the destructions that Jagdeo and Ramotar brought to this nation. The manifestations of these ruins are ubiquitous. They cannot escape your eyes wherever you are – whether travelling on a non-existent road in Lethem, or in a bus going to Berbice from Region Four, or on your way to the airport or on a visit to a public school or in any police station to make an inquiry.
Guyana fell down under Jagdeo and Ramotar, and both former presidents are barefaced enough to ask Guyanese to listen to their daily miasmic condemnations of a government that is merely three years old.
The barefacedness as many would know has become morbid. Jagdeo doesn’t support a toll hike for the Berbice Bridge, but as president his government entered into a transaction with a private company that stipulated periodic increases in the toll. Let us see what Jagdeo supports. Oh yes! He gave his endorsement to the amendment to the law for the lessening of the mandatory jail term for small amounts of marijuana. Do I have to remind readers that this gentleman was in power for twelve years and his sidekick, Donald Ramotar had almost four years of power? Why during those almost sixteen years was the law not amended?
Tracking the utter contempt Jagdeo and Ramotar have for this nation is almost impossible, because Jagdeo holds a weekly press briefing and Ramotar writes two letters a week in the newspapers. What is not hard to track, are the manifestations of their misrule. The signs are everywhere. Look at any police station in any part of Guyana, you will see how horrible was that misrule.

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