The Guyana Govt. must stop running to the US to solve local problems

Nov 02, 2023 Letters

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Dear Editor,

I always say that Guyana’s MPs fully know the right things to run a country effectively and efficiently, as they did relevant courses for their education, worked in the field, and attended training sessions, seminars, and workshops to that effect. The correct current handling of the Venezuela border is a clear indication the MPs know how to work things out together.

First of all, there is a consensus among MPs that Guyana borders belong to Guyana, the President then consulted with and listened to the experts who are the top brass of the military and took advice from them on the next steps going forward with this issue. This is the exact way things should be done for a better country for all, but why MPs do not apply this to all other critical sectors of Guyana? like food, energy, finance, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing/production, education, security/borders/immigration, public works, law, and most importantly of all now, oil and resource wealth management.

The current and past ways of the party winning elections and controlling everything have to stop as all Guyanese should be represented and everyone needs to be fully engaged, as we all have a stake in the future of the country as all Guyanese are in this together. It is said that some winning parties offered the olive branch for unity to the losing party who refused, MPs who refuse unity don’t belong in parliament, since large foreign companies are amalgamating their positions to rob Guyana, thus the major parties uniting to fight for Guyana is Guyanese only chance.  Again the MPs know unity is the right way going forward, yet do wrong by only busing down each other.

The notion of racist extremism peddled by some that getting rid of one of the major races in Guyana will lead to a better country for them is utter nonsense as all the races bring something to benefit all of the country.  All Guyana needs is real leadership like is being done with the border issue. If the leaders pool their skills together, Guyana can even get a better oil deal, with President Ali’s pit bull attitude, VP Jagdeo’s guile and cunning, Ramjattan’s law skills and Norton can wuk upon ExxonMobil. However instead of Guyana’s MPs working together as a united parliament, we now find ourselves in a predicament by running to the USA to be the primary decision maker for Guyanese.

The US will now controls our elections, manages our oil wealth, dictates government policy and most disgraceful of all, will decide Guyana’s policy on racial issues.  Imagine one of the most racist countries having to tell Guyana about race management, because our MPs who fully know the right things have decided to do the wrong things about addressing racial issues instead. The king of knowing the right things and doing the wrong things is VP Jagdeo, like a messiah on top of a hill, he knows all, sees all, and decides for all. His new defense on renegotiation and ring-fencing as per his outburst while in opposition on APNU is that, he never meant the changing the old PSA which have all the oil wealth, but the new ones which have nothing.

Reporters should take a cue from him by playing his recordings before asking him questions, as he does like a prosecutor presenting evidence in court holding up printouts to defend his nonsense and attacking those who criticize him, asking him if he didn’t mean renegotiating the old PSA, then why did he slam APNU for allowing a big smart company to trudge in here, and not point to ExxonMobil and their PSA? He says Glenn Lall, Tom Zanzillo, Vincent Adams, The IMF, and the World Bank don’t know about ring-fencing like him, as his advisors defend his oil sector management as being competitive in the industry.

The average take for oil countries is 55% for their oil, and Guyana is receiving 14.5%, so who is Guyana competing with?  Are his advisors from ExxonMobil? Continuing his nonsense the VP said, that not ringfencing now will give Guyana a bigger bone in the future, if this man continues to be in charge of this oil sector, Guyanese are in for a different kind of boning in the future. Failure of Guyana’s MPs to address racism in Guyana has led to Black diaspora organizations in the US approaching members of the US Congress to investigate government racism against Afro-Guyanese and there are now fact-finding missions coming to Guyana to investigate. If black organizations have the evidence for such allegations, they have a right to pursue their case, just like the Indo diaspora did during PNC rule.

Guyanese should know these same US congress members supported Obama when he expanded George Bush’s oil-thieving wars dubbed the War on Terror beyond Iraq, into the Middle East, Asia, and Africa with more bombs from air strikes and drone strikes, killing thousands and disrupting the lives of millions of brown and black people in the process.  The same congress members who supported the war in Ukraine disrupting the world food and energy supply chain, that caused millions of black and brown people in their own US districts and globally to suffer. Continuing on the topic of racism, the black diaspora should ask these US Congress Members what they will do about the racism of ExxonMobil towards the black, brown, and other minorities in Guyana in respect to the environment and exploitation, and you will see if they really care about the black people in Guyana more than Corporate America.

The Springboks Rugby Association in South Africa had a whites-only policy when Nelson Mandela won the presidency he went to the Springboks Rugby, wore their cap, posed with them, and said South Africa is for all South Africans and they should include all backgrounds in rugby.  Black activists condemned him for doing so, labeling him as a traitor, house slave, sellout among other names. Last Sunday South Africa won their fourth Rugby World Cup since Mandela’s presidency with white, black, and brown playing as one team, the players gave a tribute to Mandela. Mandela solved as many racism problems as he could in South Africa, but he never went to the US or EU or anyone else for help, that’s called leadership, will this ever happen in Guyana?  Only time will tell, as Guyana’s MPs fully well know how to solve Guyana’s racial problems, but MPs been doing the wrong things on racism since independence.  Will MPs ever change as Guyana’s challenges on the road ahead are getting larger and tougher?

Sincerely,

R. David

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