Pres. Ali has let me down by stating that he continues to regard Dharamlall as worthy of his support and that of the PPP

Jul 14, 2023 Letters

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Dear Editor,

I have so far avoided public comment on the unfolding travesty of justice and the appearance of low morals in our society as it relates to allegations of rape and sodomy  against Former Minister Nigel Dharamlall.

I expect that notwithstanding the DPP, that in keeping with this much talked about transparency and One Guyana, President Ali has let me down by stating that he as President continues to regard Dharamlall as worthy of his support and that of the PPP. Amazing but true and it is this Presidential pronouncement letting the cat out of the bag that is of great concern.

President Ali has said to us cheat, rape sodomy or indecency and acts of impropriety are irrelevant. He may just as well have said “well done thou good and faithful servant.”

As far as I am concerned, coupled with his dildo remark in Parliament, Dharamlall in any system or society driven by morality ought to have been shunned by the President and the PPP. In the UK, a prominent BBC presenter is in hot water for allegations related to photographs over a four-year period beginning with a young person at seventeen. In the US, a Gymnast Doctor was sentenced to one hundred years in prison over sexual offences against young people.

In Guyana, the President and the police should by now be able to ascertain who paid the travel expenses to bring the female child to Georgetown and was she at any time a guest at the home of the Minister and third what were the circumstances that lead to the revocation of his firearm licence? Mr. President, you don’t require either Sherlock Holmes or Scotland Yard to provide answers to the simple questions above.

This Statement that Dharamlall will not face charges is an absurdity. In Guyana and elsewhere, persons have been hauled before the Court based on Statements and allegations made, it is then up to the Presiding Magistrate or Judge to determine whether without the aggrieved person’s testimony  in Court, whether there is insufficient evidence to convict the alleged miscreant. Here we see the whole concept of justice being brutalized.

If the President was serious, that would have been a good start to determine possible culpability and the character of the Hon. Gentleman but what we see unveiling in Guyana is a disdain and disrespect by the incumbent administration for the other people. Today, we learnt that the Ministry of Legal Affairs is seeking a Consultant to assess the progression of the Criminal Justice Programme, with the aim of monitoring and evaluating its success.

Dear Editor and Citizens, this is a shameless waste of taxpayers’ money. It is like building a house without a proper foundation. Waste of time and money. We’re short of Judges, Magistrates and the inability to appoint a Chancellor and Chief Justice, so who are we fooling or is it as I will set out below, the administration regardless has a bunch of morally depraved creatures.

There are other matters which suggest that the PPP Government has lost its moral rudder, has lost its sense of justice, has lost its sense of decency, has lost its sense of decorum, has lost its respect for an important branch of governance that is the Judiciary, has lost its respect for the fourth estate, that is the free press., has lost its respect for girls and young women in need of our protection and affection. Has lost its respect for the sacrifice and suffering of our noble ancestors who came here thousand of years ago, who were brought here and enslaved and who came here as immigrants to till the soil.

In the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Volumes 5 and 6) Moral Sense defines “In the first half of the eighteenth-century certain Britain philosophers argued that the moral sense is the faculty by which we distinguish between moral right and moral wrong. The deliverances of this faculty are feelings or sentiments hence, it is counted as a sense. Our observation of an instance of virtuous action is the occasion for a feeling of sentiments, hence it is counted as a sense. Our observation of an instance of virtuous action is the occasion for a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction, which enables us to distinguish that action as virtuous.”

Dear Editor, my Mentor would say it is pellucidly clear that the President and the PPP have lost this faculty to distinguish between what is right and wrong and between what is good and bad. The President and his merry-money men, mirth and vicarious pleasure have lost or perhaps never had this sense of morality, justice and plain decency.

It is therefore up to this generation to use whatever legal, constitutional or historical means available to inject this moral sense into the bloodstream of those who now govern our country. We must act and remember the old people saying ‘ Nah tek fiyah stick ah night for look fuh whah  you can cee ah day.’

Too much is at stake to afford silence and a detachment from the devastation taking place in our society. All decent citizens can be consoled that throughout human history people have expressed in several ways their abhorrence to greed, injustice and immorality. We can be consoled. Human history is punctuated with expressions of this abhorrence.

Sincerely,

Hamilton Green

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• former, Hamilton Green, Minister, Nigel Dharamlall, worthy

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