Govt. mysteries and a mystery government

Feb 09, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,
I watch happenings in Guyana, and I conclude that what we have are government mysteries and a mystery government. In an unreasonably short time, the seasonable nature of sordid PPP/C stewardship and leadership has returned in emphatic form. In a matter of months, in less than two years, there have been a slew of developments shrouded in mists, the obscurities that are now norms of PPP/C governance.
There was Cotton Tree, two murdered youngsters named Henry, and another one, Haresh Singh. The President made a big speech and loved himself; his cheerleading squad works to bury questions, concerns, the grief of the families. Regarding Haresh Singh, there are movements, but they leave unconvinced. The rural mysteries deepen.
Then, there was an execution on Main Street of a fellow called Fagundes. He is gone in a hailstorm, and culture takes over. He was dead before he hit the ground, and the fixers took over. Surveillance cameras, curfew checkpoints along a lengthy stretch, and enforcement officials all took a vacation. They are still out, not to lunch, but on a limb. The warheads flew near the official residence of Guyana’s headman, but that didn’t matter; his head is up his, (let’s settle for), down escalator. Indeed, the fellows were having fun with lethal fireworks, nothing more; the collateral damage of a cold case. Except, there are reports of the chilling: police officers menaced.
Next, there was Dartmouth and that businessman Boston. He is no longer here, but his mystery took over a hundred days to get somewhere. It really didn’t get anywhere. As I ponder this, I recall the Speaker of the House was under fire and a no confidence motion; he had earned both. Considering these forgotten episodes, I wonder who is serving whom, and whose interests are paramount? Burnham would have loved it, not me.
As if those mysteries were not enough for such a short period, there was this reincarnation of a highly favoured business practice that features prominently in PPP/C stewardship. It was of one huge cocaine shipment, then another, then another caught in the net, with many others that slipped through the cordons, some cooperative, some covering up. Those never made the news. Better for the atmospherics, law enforcement ambience. The turf killings may not be far behind.
Coupled to those, there is what I label a mystery government peopled with more mysterious leaders. One speaks with a forked tongue and the coiled tension of a camoodie snake with numerous deceptions, stonewalling, and cover-ups on oil and gas. He sits pretty uneasy while the next one tramples on the English tongue and call that transparency. Somebody is delusional and unhinged, and it is not me. There is something about oil that gives men severe mental constipation, torments with ethical dissipation. Further, one protective State agency is reduced to a caricature, with the oafish and fishy leading the way. In any self-respecting society, sanctions would come for selling out the State to foreign scallywags and corporate scoundrels. Not to worry, for there are powerful leadership origins and backings for these mysteries that camouflage skullduggeries, sleights of hand, and general sleaziness.
Further still, another protective body is remade in short order into the security arm and strike force of political masters. The dogs are set loose on deviants, deviationists, and those declared to be undesirables. But they are held in check and made to look away when friends and other fiends are involved. Overall, the biggest mystery hands down is anything involving money, which automatically means impenetrable secrecy. The irony is that leaders are adored for all this; and that, too, is an inseparable part of this mystery government, this land of much murk, and many mysteries. Except that there are no mysteries by any measure, so obvious they all are.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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