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Aug 10, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

The passing of Dr. Roger Luncheon was met with sympathies and best wishes to his family, which is much warranted. He received accolades for all his achievements from academics and public service which someone like me can never achieve.  Good words for him came from a broad spectrum of society regardless of race and politics. I won’t insult the departed and have nothing personally against the man, but he was part of a political system with which I have issues.

For those who don’t know, previously and currently, there is a racket going on within the Ministry of Health, where vital drugs procured for the public hospitals to cure sickness for ordinary Guyanese, mysteriously disappear and end up in private health entities and private pharmacies.  Thousands of poor Guyanese from all walks of life died because the drugs were not in the public hospitals to save them from health issues and the poor couldn’t afford the private healthcare offered in Guyana. I know some who were part of that racket and they had ties to Dr. Luncheon.

Dr. Luncheon was part of a political system that sold this country’s wealth out.  He stayed silent as the resource plundering and massive corruption was going on within Guyana’s political leadership that decimated the poor of this country.  No wonder he received accolades from Raphael Trotman, the same politician who put a sword to Guyanese neck by signing the oil contract and voted to waive Exxon’s taxes. The PNC lauded Dr. Luncheon for speaking out against the phantom squad, but neither he, the PNC nor their apologists mentioned, the phantom squad that was created as a response to armed and violent gangs that raped, robbed, and murdered Guyanese with impunity creating a national crisis in Guyana.

I never heard Luncheon, nor the PNC giving any sympathy to the countless victims of these violent robberies, their mouths only opened when police sent some of these bandits to their maker. Being someone whose close family member was murdered by armed and violent robbers who broke into their home, what Luncheon, the PNC, and the so-called justice activists call extra-judicial killings, I call good policing. Luncheon never fought for Guyanese rightful share of their wealth, for if he did maybe there wouldn’t be phantom squads and armed violent bandits if all Guyanese got their rightful share of their wealth.

It’s funny in Guyana whenever a politician leaves office for whatever reason, they get accolades from MPs of all parties as being champions of Guyana’s poor and working class; yet their policies, however, create more poor and working-class Guyanese rather than less. Whenever MP Gail Teixeira leaves office she will get accolades like a goddess from PPP supporters and from both PNC and PPP MPs. Yet, she is currently playing hardball with the APA Amerindians in their current fight for their God-given land rights at Chinese Landing Village. I cannot achieve what Dr. Luncheon has achieved academically nor can I like him, ascend into the Guyanese political arena.  I would never deny him or any other departed soul, the right to rest in peace, but for those who took an oath to represent the vulnerable, the voiceless and victims and cannot deliver, I will join the few who have chosen to speak for the vulnerable, the voiceless and victims that have suffered from Guyana’s politics, so ex-MPs, current MPs and their mouthpieces, take note.

Yours truly,

R. David

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