Withheld comment on ANUG, another does it for me

May 29, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I refer to the article titled, “Executive member of A New and United Guyana resigns over failure to hold elections, suspend former GUYOIL Board member” (Demerara Waves, May 24). I have been sparing of the new parties; now a man from within the main one speaks out, and confirms what I have lumped scornfully, ‘as aal ah dem sell out.’
In Guyana, the tawdry record is give man or woman a prize, and their self-described principles vanish. They abandon independence, neutrality, and objectivity, suspected falsely claimed, for any piece of silver thrown their way to make them surrender what they said that they stood for, so loudly. It is the way the game is played here, with ethics nonexistent, and the kicked-around electorate serving as the abused ball. Almost all these Guyanese, having so nobly asserted that they were not going to join with PPP or PNC, ended up with the side that won. They sell shamelessly, collect obscenely. Too many make damn fools of naïve Guyanese; taking their hopes and trust for granted, and as something to be scorned like abused partners.
No position on any board should have been accepted by the principals in any of the contesting groups. We lament about divide and rule at the hands of former colonial masters, and then turn around and do the exact same thing here. Racially, as is well known. Politically, as is becoming clearer. That is why Mr. Jonathan Yearwood bemoaned his suddenly ‘lone voice’ status in the party that came about with so much nobility of purpose, so much indomitable spirit. But since August 2, only for all of that to crumble into the ashes of still more newcomer treachery. The ranks of the speakership of the National Assembly stands as another, more glaring example of how cheap some can be, how low we grovel, to get what is considered high by our small minds. After all the big talk, and the bright lights of sunny attention, this is how puny the minds of tomorrow’s ambitious for running this country are. How conniving. How easily saleable personal integrity is as a political commodity bartered away for a place, a pat, a penny.
Editor, it is intriguing that, as the man says, that internal elections have been long delayed. I would have thought that he had more wisdom than that, since he ought to know that priorities like those are competing with attention seeking, kowtowing, and overall sniveling before the political bosses that stride over this land like so many colossi. And since Shakespeare seems to soothe our souls, I offer Iago and his maxim of, “A good name in a man or woman is the immediate jewel of the soul.” The only good name that counts in today’s PPP time, (and in the PNC time, too) is to worm one’s way in their good books. So, men sell; and so someone like Jonathan Yearwood keens his dirge. He speaks for me, many of us.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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