Anywhere the PPP Govt. turns…

Dec 18, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

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(Kaieteur News) – Anywhere the PPP Government turns, ominous realities that its leadership created arise.  It turns north, and there is the US salivating to have a go at Venezuela its three hundred billion barrels, other enticements and entanglements.

Founder leader, George Washington warned of foreign entanglements.  His later successor, James Monroe, differed, said here’s the Monroe Doctrine.  Stick nose in the Americas and its America’s business.  Now that Washington has set its heart on reining in Caracas, Guyana finds itself ensnared in the net.

For or against; decide.  The PPP Govt’s chief princeling said he is for peace.  Say what?  Plus, the hole dug, the bundle tied, with both entrapping Guyana in the middle and it can’t say boo.  Dr. Ali decided the smart move is to walk the middle ground.  Peace.  Welcome to my world, sir.  Trust me, Guyana will get clobbered by both sides.  Try to chart that independent, centrist course, and the pincers close savagely.  Once again, matters distil to for or against.  Whichever way the PPP selects, Guyana is in a bind.

I go from north to northwest.  There is Maduro.  He wants Essequibo.  He wants Exxon and Chevron out of from where he claims is his.  They are only acceptable to him, when working by his side, in his interests, for his conquistador’s visions.  When the PPP decided to sellout Guyana, and align with Exxon, the idea was to recruit, pay homage to, Washington.  That angry god comes calling.  It was there for the PPP (elections).  It is now payback time.  Venezuela.  Take a stand.  Cut the nonsense about zone of peace.  I remind Pres. Ali that special relationships come with special demands.  Together we stand, divided there is bad blood.  America isn’t the loser.  Sanctity of contract is a good start, but not enough.  Zone of peace is an abomination, anathema to American interests, visions.  Recall that earlier assertion.  The PPP dug a hole for Guyana, from which there is no extrication.  All too often, men are too smart for their own good.

As if being hemmed in and pressed against unyielding northern and northwestern walls are not bad enough, there is the roaring, flexing, prowling dragon from the distant East.  China.  The PPP borrowed and borrowed like a man who had a big share in a big bank: 22 percent of the national debt is in China’s hands.  That’s not putting eggs in one basket.  That’s juggling the eggs that one has, and hoping that the eyes stay peeled, and the hands remain steady.  America or China, it is the same story that the PPP leadership never seem to learn.  There is no free lunch.  Whether the pawnbroker, the banker, or the Cosa Nostra, they come with their calling card, when it is time to collect the vigorish.  Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyana’s newest political phantom (who doesn’t walk in the daylight anymore), took exceptional pride in hailing the relationship between Guyana and China.  Respectfully, I think he misspoke, rearranged something.  He was heralding in a subtle way the long, singular relationship between himself and some Chinese mandarins.  Another big hole for Guyana, a big debt hole in which the PPP plunged Guyanese, who must honor the IOU.

Worse still, the PPP made matters more difficult for itself right at home.  From sophisticated points on the globe to domestic backyard.  Need I say, there’s Mr. Azruddin Mohamed.  Who is he?  Which cat dragged him into the house?  It was Freedom House first, where he had VIP standing, no security check.  Then to the parliamentary house of the Guyanese people, from where he is blocked from checking-in, taking up his first-class seat as Opposition Leader.  Guyanese paid for that seat.  The PPP turns to the now muddied and besmirched corridors of parliament and there is Mohamed’s picture hanging on the wall, and driving Ali, Nandlall, and Nadir up the wall, off a cliff.  Like Maduro, what to do with Mohamed, is where the PPP Govt finds itself.  All the verbal balletic prowess leads to this crisis.

I pleaded with Drs. Ali, Jagdeo, Singh, Nandlall: please remember the people.  Go back to America was the first slur.  Which people, was the second?  The same people that the PPP cheated (budgets, infrastructures), that Mohamed excited and comforted.  Those who voted for him, those who voted with their seat (stayed home).  Summation: the PPP Govt turns north, west, east, or south and those massive holes that it dug for Guyanese, it made sure to exclude itself.  Whether external or internal, Guyana is in big trouble.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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• GHK Lall, Maduro, PPP Government, US

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