Hamilton Green has suddenly found his moral compass

Mar 30, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Anyone reading your letter in Kaieteur News titled “The Best of Laws, Constitutions or Reforms will mean very little unless our leaders are morally erect”, and wasn’t around long enough to know who the true Hamilton Green really is, would marvel at the sage advice, which he is offering.
However, there are those of us who were born in the 1950s and have been around long enough to witness PNC domination and rule for 28 years of which he was a part of and a major player, are wary of what he is peddling.

In those decades of PNC rule, can Mr. Green say if he saw anything wrong with the way he and his cohorts ran the Government? How Inclusive a Government was the one, which he was part of? Did he ever see the need to call on themselves to be “Morally Erect”? Was he at any time “Morally Erect”? Did he even see anything wrong with the disenfranchisement of the Guyanese voters?

Did he see anything wrong with the elimination of Independent Media, repression of free speech and elimination of any opposition, all of which he and the PNC were doing for all that time? Did he ever write a letter to the Press calling for free and fair election and representation for all?

What is astonishing is that at no point in our history has there been a more transparent effort to elect our leaders than at our most recent General Election and at no point in our history has there been more effort to represent all Guyanese equally as we are seeing at this current time yet he now chooses to stand up to criticize the Government. He found no reason to criticize when he was leader and he found no reason to criticize between 2015 and 2020. When he and his cohorts are in power, everything is good and we can’t ask for better, but, when he is not in power, everything is wrong and he is speaking out for what is right!

He’s suddenly found his moral compass! I only have to think of the bleak and dark times, which we went through under PNC leadership in the 70s and 80s and Green’s words become hollow and hypocritical.

Yours truly,
Dennis Balgobin

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