Congrats to His Excellency

Mar 05, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I take off my hat to His Excellency, President Ali for misinterpreting him and being mistaken about him. He had it all right all along on that promise about transparency. The president has been so outstanding with transparency that his ministers have followed suit, with Guyana’s Chief Minister, that would be the most Honourable and Most Esteemed Vice President, leading the way.
When the record of the last seven months is examined closely, President Ali has been exemplary with transparency. The president now stands as a tower of transparency on secrecy. Rather wisely, he left out that qualifying word: secrecy. I detected that he spoke sotto voce or from the side of his mouth, as is now his hallmark. However this has been done, Guyanese live with the daily realities.
Transparency in secrecy on the delivery of reports on oil. Transparency in the secrecy surrounding the finished Wales gas to shore project. Transparency on the secrecy of the connivances with a group that is a blood relation of the PPP government. That would be the conspiratorial PNC-AFC opposition. I think the mainland Chinese are more informed by its totalitarian regime than Guyanese and the leaders that they follow blindly. It is the height of irony that this is happening today, with the technology revolution and the information oceans that inundate; citizens live in a state of constant information drought. Guyanese stumbled through the Burnham era with two center pages for media fare, and they knew everything that needed to be known. Look at us today, and the contrast: we have online newspapers (how is that possible – paper in electronic?), we have almost 24-hour radio and talking heads (empty suits) on television, and we are dumber than doorbells. We have everything, yet we know nothing, thanks to the Ali Administration’s oaths on the good books to be about transparency. I thought I was handy with the mother tongue, but I have to hand it to the PPP, it makes the Queen of England sound like a heathen and a barbarian, with how it mangles the meanings of the English Language.
I should have been the first to say that President Ali is about lies when he speaks of transparency. But I will be the first to defend him today. For the man meant transparency on secrecy. As I examine the circumstances under which he operates, and the people he surrounds himself with, there was no intent to falsify and deceive. Not at all! But there was always lurking in the head and the breast, every intention not to deliver. That is not a lie. That is not a lack of transparency. It is of the now world famous Guyanese patented transparency that withholds and withers under the glare of inquiry. There is a dark side of me that has appreciation for skilled con men. They are usually not too occupied or concerned with the fine print. And that is where Guyana is today with those who mislead.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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