I smell a rat, a big, big rat

May 20, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

So the President has announced cash grants to people living in the riverain and hinterland areas.
Bravo! Bravo!
Last week, the government bellowed and boasted that they will be granting relief by way of fertilizer subsidies and cash grants to 70,000 farmers.
This is among a menu of measures gleefully announced by His Excellency.
I smell a rat, a big, big rat. These monies are not belonging to members of the cabinet and the looming mono-ethnic oligarchy, but to all of us.
I hereby challenge the President and those who are sharing out these sums of money to identify area by area, village by village, where these 70,000 farmers are.
There are a few people alive who have over the past seven decades traversed this country and therefore know this country more than the writer of this letter and there is no way, even including small urban farmers, that the number could be 70,000 farmers in Guyana.
This is serious money and I am copying this letter to the Commissioner of Police, Guyana Press Association, Transparency International Committee and the Diplomatic Corp so that the Government can identify who and where 70,000 farmers are, since the people’s money is involved.

Hamilton Green
Elder

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