It is impossible to comprehend the thinking of the APNU+AFC

Apr 27, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Once you reach a certain age in this country, as a high school student you will know that one of the main pillars of the Guyana existence is agriculture. This is a large country that is bigger than the combined CARICOM territories.
Despite sugar’s recent exit as a foreign exchange earner, agriculture is one of the most important arteries in Guyana’s biology. Compared with other ministries, the agriculture jurisdiction is very large.
It came as a complete surprise to the nation that the APNU+AFC did not name a junior Minister of Agriculture while there were two junior ministers and a senior one in the Ministry of Communities.
One of the stupid things about people with state power in Guyana is that they cannot seem to get into their heads that in a small population, there can be no secrets.
This columnist has evidence of corruption against this government. This columnist was given information of APNU+AFC personnel who are in possession of huge mining claims. This columnist knows about an egregious conflict of interest in the Cabinet that has not hit the media as yet.
This columnist knows that shortly after 2015, the second-tier leadership of the AFC argued for a junior minister of agriculture.
Rajendra Bissessar of the AFC was identified for such a post but he did not have total support within the AFC’s leadership. When his name reached Granger, he was rejected. Bissessar writes letters in the newspapers often so I will hope he replies to this and clarify what is written here about him.
In 2016, two senior second-tier leaders in the AFC – Leonard Craig and current General-Secretary, Marlon Williams-`- took serious steps to have the AFC decide on a junior minister of agriculture.
A dialogue took place with Minister Holder. Both Holder and the AFC rejected the attempts of these two men. It would be interesting to hear the reaction of both of them to what is written here.
On the verge of its four years in office, the APNU+AFC wise men and insightful ladies have chosen a junior minister in the agricultural sector. Why four years later appears to be an idiotic decision but let us examine the logics that drive the people that administer state power here. For a very long time in the US, extreme, anti-government conservative ideologues, including the top leadership in the Republican Party, have held the view that less government and small government is best for the US and that essentially the only role government should play is in security.
All the ideologues in the Republican Party believe that Government’s role is to safeguard the territory and provide security for the citizenry.
Security falls to no other sector than the state. Yet in Guyana, the APNU+AFC leader has invented a concept called – public security. There is no such thing elsewhere in the world. That is why you would never find the word “public” before security in any Cabinet in any government in the world. It has to be “national security.”
The state is invested with the sphere of security within the borders and outside of the borders of any country.
The government has jurisdiction over any kind of security in Guyana. It regulates the operation of private security like private security firms, sale of weapons, gun license. By what logic can you have a ministry of public security rather than national security? How can you have a Ministry of Public Health?
The entire health sector must be regulated by the state. In all other countries, private medical facilities come under national laws administered by the state.
Things become asinine when you have the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure but you don’t have a Ministry of Public Agriculture? Why not a Ministry of Public Legal Affairs?
Now here is the one that is incomprehensible. The ministry with the largest budgetary allocation is education. The constitution stipulates that from nursery to tertiary, education is free.
An enormous sum (I think about 50 billion dollars) is spent on the education sector. But we don’t have a Ministry of Public Education. The APNU+AFC leadership chose to leave out the word “public” in front of education. Why is that so? I would bet any sum of money that not one leader in the government could explain why the word “public” is in front of other ministries and not education.
My guess is that the person(s) who thought up of those name changes is a basic fool not worthy of being part of a modern government. But then again, this is Guyana.

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