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Chaos and crisis
Editorial…
Kaieteur News- So many things are wrong in this country that it is mindboggling how our citizens cope with it all.
It is the most chaotic management of this country we have seen in recent years, yet the powers that be go along blithely as though everything is right. The official opposition is equally shambolic, leaving Guyanese at the mercy of an incompetent government and foreign corporations that care only about making profits.
From schools to hospitals to the streets of Georgetown, Guyana is in crisis. A 2016 STEPS Survey conducted in Guyana revealed that 18.4% of adults had high blood pressure. We believe that figure has grown much larger owing to the stress levels of our citizens.
We have seen in recent weeks protests over the death of Adriana Younge and attempts at a cover-up by the state apparatus, as well as the killing of two young men in Linden by police. Students are being bullied and beaten in schools; truck drivers are forced to park their vehicles after being forced out of the business by Chinese operators. On top of that, government passed an oil spill prevention and protection bill with provisions that protect the oil companies more than Guyanese. Just last week, we were told that the oil assets we have paid for still belong to ExxonMobil. All of these things are happening while Venezuela is issuing threats to our sovereignty.
From the flawed oil spill bill, to the announcement that assets we paid off for are not ours, can only be seen as part of the devilish objectives of the scheming PPPC Government leaders, who study and plot, and come up with new ways on how to bleed Guyana dry and the many ways to steal the wealth of this country so as to bring it to the point of insolvency.
Guyanese have to get one thing in their heads. The only time they have value, have any standing that calls for recognition by political leaders is during elections seasons. This is when they are courted and wooed, and the one time when they represent something. All other times, they are nothing but doormats to be used for wiping the feet of leaders and ministers. The quicker citizens of this country get used to that reality, the better off they will be, the more they will be able to cushion their disappointments when their hopes are dashed.
For here it is that this country is poised to cash in on its biggest oil paydays, and the PPPC Government has moved with cunning and determination to pass laws that will protect oil companies and expose our citizens to the dangers of an oil spill. The President has the power, or so we are led to believe, to put a check on all these things, but he is just the puppet on a string that is responding to the tugs and pulls of one man in the shadows who is calling the shots. That man has a certain history where big money, in fact, any kind of taxpayer money, is concerned, and he has been slick enough in the swirl of oil developments to make the Head-of-State the front man, with all these powers, when he doesn’t have any other than to sign and carry out orders at the behest of the real power behind the throne.
What the Vice President desires all Guyana to believe is that he has no say, and is along for the ride in all of these fast-rushing oil issues. But regardless of where the power to make decisions of enduring significance with this oil resides, the President or the Vice President or the subject Minister, the end result is still the same.
We encourage our fellow citizens to look around carefully, and absorb what has been going on, and then ask yourselves whether you have any say in anything related to this oil, since its discovery.
It is the same dismal and secretive story with the very costly gas-to-shore project slated for Wales, where Guyanese have their say, but are completely ignored by arrogant leaders in a rampaging government. In addition, more and more people have come out and said that they want more from this oil, that the contract should be renegotiated (which the PPPC itself said during the campaigns for elections), but today, nobody listens to what Guyanese have to say about this oil or have the time of day for them.
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