Guyanese – time to standup, speak-up, and fight for what is yours

Mar 11, 2023 Letters

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Dear Editor,

As the world knows Guyanese are the richest citizens with Guyana’s vast wealth and small population, therefore Guyanese should be living the rich life as the optics show.  However, the greedy evil world powers wouldn’t allow this and they are already here to take the wealth which is very easy for them, as Guyana have corrupt and compromised parliamentarians, inadequate security, a divided population and leaders with no plan nor vision to understand the oil and resource wealth game Guyana is now in.

The current Third World exploitation is nothing new; it has been going on globally for centuries with different names and tactics. Guyana’s wealthy interior has been under siege for decades under all administrations.  There are many illegal airstrips with planes coming in and going out bringing and carrying cargo as part of drug-smuggling, illegal mining, and other shady operations, and the deals government now makes with oil, mining and logging companies is just legalizing the illegal activities as Guyanese will get nothing from the deals. Guyanese had no idea of the Jim Jones cult at Port Kaituma until the deaths happened.  This is an example of how Guyanese are clueless about the interior where the wealth is, as they were never educated nor had the investment made by Guyana’s leaders.

Guyanese going to the interior to make a hustle is a life and death venture, as the trip alone in and out is very dangerous, much less working in unhealthy and unsafe hazardous working conditions.  Yet Guyana’s leaders never invested in basic infrastructure and workers’ safety resulting in countless preventable deaths.  I personally lost cousins who worked in the interior, god rest their souls. The oil and gas world is a very competitive, treacherous, enemy-filled, and back-stabbing business.  Meaning with the past, and these current leaders leading Guyana in oil and gas, Guyana is good as dead, no wonder since the summoning of Ali and Jagdeo to Washington, they now speak as if their names end with Exxon.

Taking a past snapshot and current events in the world over oil and resources, there were many countries with good leaders, better military and security, and unified populations, yet they fell to the evil greedy foreign interests coming after their wealth.  These foreign interests had Iraq under the UN oil for food program taking Iraq’s oil and giving them food.  When the leader, Saddam, said he was going to sell Iraq’s oil and buy its own food, the destruction of the most modern country in the Middle East got underway led by a campaign of lies, subsequent bombing, and invasion.  Venezuela under Chaves got its rightful share for its oil and became rich and then was sanctioned by the West, the crippling sanctions destroyed Venezuela and the west blamed socialism, not their sanctions. Gaddafi of Libya called for an African Bank for Africa’s oil and resources proceeds and this led to his demise.

Currently, there is unrest in Haiti and foreign interests are rushing to bring peace to Haiti, these foreign interests don’t mention they have control over Haiti’s rich gold deposits and are targeting Haiti’s offshore oil, Haitians too can be very rich but this will not be allowed. Ukraine was an agricultural powerhouse and have oil and valuable minerals but what is currently happening to Ukrainians is to make sure they don’t get their share of their wealth even as Ukrainians are white. Currently, in the richest piece of real estate globally, the Congo, had a long conflict between the government and opposition that has killed over 6 million people, the highest causalities in a conflict since the world wars but no G-8 country’s media showed it, as they were the beneficiaries of the conflict plundering Congo’s resources.  The government and opposition finally came to their senses and realized they will killing each other for outsiders to benefit and brokered a peace deal.  The outsiders responded by sending the UN, Rwandan, Ugandan, Kenyan and Burundian forces to maintain the outsiders’ interest in the Congo creating new unrests.

Guyana has discovered bountiful riches is now known around the world, so do you think Guyanese will be left alone to enjoy the riches?  No! everyone will be coming for a piece, remember when oil got into full gear in Guyana, lo and behold the Venezuela border dispute came up, Brazil and Suriname in the past also laid claim to a part of Guyana, Brazilians are already doing illegal mining in Guyana as the authorities recently apprehended some. Guyanese haven’t received oil money as yet and the illegal immigration to Guyana has begun, imagine the crises if the real money came. Discovering riches in Guyana came at worst the possible time, since Guyana has corrupt and compromised politicians at the helm making no decisions to benefit the country.  Guyana has no reliable records of how much oil, minerals and timber is being produced and other important data.  Guyana’s financial and banking system is unequipped to enact a financial plan as politicians decide what information to disclose and leaving out key modules from the accounting system.

Guyanese, you have been warned time and time again of the dangers you are in, yet the no-action, lackadaisical attitude continues as clueless Guyanese doesn’t seem to understand the dangers ahead, due to negligence of duty, and compassion for Guyanese by their parliamentarians. Guyanese you are now in a dangerous game which you have been losing and it’s time to get up, stand up and fight for what is rightfully yours so you can change this dangerous game in your favour.

Sincerely,

R. David

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