Guyanese toil in the sun, foreign exploiters and local house slaves celebrate in the shade

Aug 17, 2023 Letters

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Dear Editor,

Guyanese love brand names, like Nike shoes, Gucci sunglasses, Rolex watches, Versace belts, Mercedes cars, Kangol hats, Ford pick-up trucks, Sony TV, Apple iPhones, Pepsi drink, IBM computers, etc.  Those who can afford to buy them have them, those who don’t try to steal them.  Now there is a big brand conquering all Guyana by the name of ExxonMobil, but most of all there are also the PNC and PPP brands.

If Guyanese fight for their rightful share of Guyana’s wealth, they can have all the name brands they want, but they have chosen to be branded instead like cattle by the PNC and PPP, who in turn have themselves branded by ExxonMobil as Exxon’s property. Since independence these two political parties have evolved into name brands rather than political parties and Guyanese have been hooked by them so much, and refuse to stand up against these parties while giving them unconditional support.  This is allowing foreign exploitation of Guyana’s oil, resource wealth and environmental destruction. The PNC and PPP for the last forty years have never agreed on anything, except allowing foreign exploiters to carry away Guyana’s oil, gold, and other wealth, particularly ExxonMobil, while collecting no taxes with no environmental protection for Guyana.

Exxon is like a customer at a brothel talking big about financial capability and getting the top two prostitutes on both sides, namely, PNC and PPP.  When the prostitutes wake up they found out Exxon took back the money they paid them, took all their other money, and Exxon also took drinks and food at the brothel’s bar on their accounts.  Yet the PNC and PPP follow, lie and fight for Exxon against Guyanese constantly. The VP, Guyana’s oil czar, instead of having Exxon relinquish the oil blocks as per law, have extended Exxon’s hold on the oil blocks, and since he has been getting criticism for this, has responded by saying Guyana will get free gas from Exxon.  The same Exxon whose shareholders want every cent from Guyana, and the same Exxon throwing bills on Guyana they themselves cannot substantiate as per the GRA.

So, I don’t know which hole of ExxonMobil the VP will be getting free gas from for Guyanese. President Ali said, enforcing Guyana’s inadequate and outdated laws will strongarm the oil companies which he doesn’t want to do, yet this man fully well knows that’s the exact reason why these laws were written in the first place, and him being the chief enforcer is responsible for such enforcement. The PPP and their mouthpieces who criticized the handling of Guyana’s oil and resources by the PNC have now become hypocrites, turning criticisms of the same PNC policies, into now “Good for Guyana” policies since their party is now in power. The PPP mouthpieces can’t face facts and figures, so now they have now gone into full excuse mode for the PPP. The PPP’s chief financial analyst writes to pro-PPP newspapers quoting laws that give Exxon and the government the right to deny Guyana parent company unlimited liability full coverage insurance for oil disasters.

Some mouthpieces say Guyanese should stop complaining, be contented with what they get, and go back to planting kitchen gardens and mining fowls and ducks. Yet, they are the same people who criticized Burnham and the PNC for the same thing when PNC implemented the “Self Sufficiency Food Drive”, which since then to today has put food affordability out of the poor’s hands. Other mouthpieces say if Guyanese get their get rightful share they will stop working and live irresponsibly, yet these same mouthpieces will never accept anyone telling them how they should spend their wealth. If they had any knowledge, they would know many people turn to alcohol, drugs, and other addictions because they can see no hope.  Many people also take on risky jobs they are not physically fit for and do not have the necessary experience and skills to do, like security guards, prostitution and interior work just to make ends meet. As per all the social experts, poor people who get assistance to move up in life have a successful rate of over 85% by turning their lives around, me included, so I don’t know where these mouthpieces get their data from to criticize giving Guyanese their rightful share of their wealth.

The biggest mouthpiece of all, rightly said Guyana is no longer a fly-over country for foreigners, but he didn’t mention it’s now a land, load up, and leave with Guyana’s wealth for foreigners. None of the mouthpieces condemn the foreign exploitation and destruction of Guyana, but give support to the government that is allowing this to happen, they will criticize opposing voices to the exploitation even as these opposing voices come from experts with proven track records. There is now a new no-skill or no-talent lucrative career in Guyana, which entails, creating a forum to support the foreign exploiters and their local enablers, just ask the Guyanese Critic and the others like him. The foreign exploiters, local MPs, and their mouthpieces can talk to Guyanese like this, because Guyanese seem to be like branded cattle to the PNC, PPP, and foreign exploiters, where the cattle stay on their owner’s ranch, accept the scraps thrown at them and march to the slaughterhouse whenever the ranch owner orders.

Guyanese, if you choose not to stand up against the foreign exploiters, the MPs, and their mouthpieces, then wake up and go toil in the sun for a pittance, just like the slaves in the days of slavery toiling, while the slave masters and house slaves sit in the shade and count the money they make off you.  Remember Guyanese, those slaves didn’t have a choice, but you do.  So make the right one and stand up for what is rightfully yours. Those who sold and are currently selling out Guyana, along with those who support them, will take their ill-gotten gains and go into hiding, when they get tired of hiding, they will re-emerge, like Robert Persaud in New York and now author Raphael Trotman in Guyana, both former Minister of Natural Resources who sold this country out, citing flimsy excuses for what they did, but to them, others like them and their mouthpieces, I say, take those jiggery-pokery excuses and put them in the same ExxonMobil hole where Bharrat Jagdeo says he will get free gas from to give Guyanese.

Truly yours,

R. David

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