Jagdeo in full parrot mode, he and Pres. Ali spewing hot air across Guyana

Aug 03, 2023 Letters

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Dear Editor,

The Arrow calypso “Feeling hot, hot, hot” is a song played universally by all cultures, at their festive events and puts all present in a happy and festive mood to enjoy the party.  A friend once told me no matter how bad his mood is, this song changes his mood to happiness.

The current feeling hot from the hot air in Guyana is not so joyous but miserable for Guyanese, due to the increased oil operations flaring, deforestation of trees from mining and logging, ocean and rivers that help in cooling being polluted, idling vehicles stuck in traffic, congestion of people in one area, and countrywide so-called developmental construction erecting concrete and steel structures.  Meanwhile destroying trees and vegetation which helps in cooling with no environmental study to strike a balance between development and protecting the environment.  So those who are lucky to have air conditioning will be turning them up and stressing the power grid, or just like everything else in Guyana, the power will be directed to the area where selected foreigners and Guyanese live, and leaving ordinary Guyanese suffering with rolling blackouts.

The entire globe has countries that are experiencing their worst heat seasons with hot temperatures breaking all previous records. Still, in Guyana, instead of using the guidelines for flaring set out by Dr. Vincent Adams’s EPA, we have the Parsram’s EPA allowing Exxon unlimited flaring. At the same time, the PPP boasts about carbon credits from increased flaring as Guyanese continue feeling the heat like never before. Many Guyanese go to priests, shamans, and clairvoyants for help when they get ills that they never had before, so we don’t have any medical statistics that can relate illness to the flaring or other heat-causing activities. Instead of having a government that addresses these heat issues, they are instead encouraging and supporting activities that raise the temperature while other countries are going into heat emergencies.

In addition to the hot air in the atmosphere hovering over Guyanese heads, we also have hot air spewed by political leaders and spokespersons of the exploiting multinational companies whenever they address Guyanese concerns for our rightful share of our country’s wealth.  The spokespersons of the foreign exploiters spew hot air whenever they tell Guyanese, the business deals Guyana received from them are the best things for Guyanese since sliced bread. VP Jagdeo, since he likes to name-call critics of his policies as mentally ill, spews hot air like a squawking parrot repeating the same deceitful words when asked to provide important information to Guyanese, as required by law on the oil and resource operations to the people who are the true owners of Guyana’s wealth. Whenever the VP opens his mouth, we hear APNU didn’t do this and APNU didn’t do that, and the PPP is now correcting APNU’s shortcomings.

Still, we will never hear of correcting and renegotiating the oppressive oil and resource contracts even as those words came from the PPP’s leaders’ own mouths themselves. However, Trotman the signer of the oil contract is willing to assist in renegotiating, so all the PPP campaign promises were just hot air. The PPP has now changed their goalposts from renegotiating the oil contract and making Guyana the Dubai of the western hemisphere to now beating APNU.  The PPP doesn’t need to beat APNU, with a leader like Norton spewing hot air all the time, APNU will explode on their own.  If APNU has any brains at all, they will call an emergency meeting and get rid of Norton.  The PPP, likewise, should also call one and get rid of Jagdeo as well. Norton at one of his recent addresses referred to President Ali as “Presidunce”, he should retain this word for himself, if by a lightning strike of luck or by divine or foreign intervention he becomes president that word will fit him perfectly since he can never succeed in a job that requires basic competence and responsibilities. Meanwhile, my cousin left his home to attend a family function for a few hours and returned home to find someone helped themselves to his kitchen garden.  Maybe when MP Juan Edgehill spewed hot air urging Guyanese to plant bigan, bora, and bajee, this is what he had this in his mind, that Guyanese in tough times which will happen in the current state of affairs, will be feeding themselves from their neighbours.

Finally, the hot air spewed by the president could fill a hot air balloon, whether he speaks in Guyana or abroad, he boasts of business and investment opportunities for foreigners, but never about what’s in it for Guyanese from their own wealth.  He constantly uses the words “capacity” and “sustainability”, but he will never ask Guyanese if they have the capacity to sustain the onslaught and barrage of (a) the massive oil and resource wealth that is being transferred and shipped overseas from Guyana, (b) the dangers from the desecration of the beautiful environment of Guyana, (c) the widespread corruption in all sectors of Guyana causing Guyanese harm, (d) the increasing debt load on Guyanese that will create unprecedented inflation and high cost of living, and (e) the suffering of Guyanese from incompetence and mismanagement from all levels of government from state, regional, local and state entities.

Guyanese if you will only spew hot air and continue to accept this nonsense from your leaders by sitting back, staying silent, and being submissive to what’s happening in your country, then you all better get a steady supply of ice if you can, since the temperature will only get hotter.

Truly yours,

R. David

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