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Jul 07, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I am responding to the fallout of Acting Foreign Minister, Ms. Priya Manickchand’s speech at the US Embassy, observing the 238th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.
Before I proceed, let me make it very clear that I am not a member of any political party in Guyana. I criticize and praise all parties equally. I was once told that the former president, Bharrat Jagdeo, once referred to me as a traitor to the PPP.
I must also emphasize that there is no excuse for not having local government elections since the 1990’s in Guyana. This is a shame. All elections should be held on a regular basis and I blame the government for the blatant disregard for this democratic process.
I am not concerned with any actions of the minister in the past, as it is irrelevant to this issue.
Also, I believe the speech was approved at a higher level of government and the minister was only the messenger.
However, I am flabbergasted at the outpouring of criticism levied against the minister, in the newspaper and the social media regarding her speech. After viewing a video of her speech, which lasted nine minutes and twenty seconds, I absolutely don’t understand what the fuss is all about.
She was calm in her presentation and the contents of her speech were accurate. She made an analysis of the out going ambassador’s tenure in Guyana and as a representative of the government of Guyana, she would be derelict in her duty if she did not make a critical analysis of the ambassador who is known to have meddled in Guyana’s internal politics from the day he assumed his position. However, I blame the PPP government for not expelling the ambassador when he started his officious behavior. Any Guyanese government should never tolerate another Brent Hardt in our country.
To those of you who are critical of the minister’s speech think that our ambassador to the Unites States of America, Bayney Karran, could act in such a manner in Washington as Brent Hardt did in Guyana?
Do you think ambassador Karran can tell president Obama that he is the worst president when it comes to deportation of immigrants and to end his policy immediately? Do you thing he can demand that Obama pardon political prisoners in the USA, including Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier.
He would be presumptuous and violating his ambassadorial duties and president Obama would be right to expel him immediately. If it’s not acceptable for the United States, it should not be acceptable for Guyana.
If she is criticized and denounced for her speech, those who began to heckle close to the end of her speech should be denounced and criticized also. They were extremely disrespectful to the minister.
It appears to me that the benefactors of the US intervention in Guyana is at it again and is trying to kiss the ass of the outgoing ambassador. We have had the painful experience of the US meddling in our affairs since the late 1950’s.
Today as an independent nation, we continue to suffer the seeds of destruction planted by the US, Britain and local puppets, political parties, individuals, unions and religious bodies to divide our nation.
The extremely disruptive and disrespectful behavior of the ambassador, his close relationship with opposition and the presence of the International Republican Institute [IRI] in Guyana, could this be a pretext for another US intervention and destabilization of the PPP government?
Could the virulent denunciation of the minister by the opposition be an act of gratitude to the ambassador for his actions against the government?
According to one publication, Mr. David Granger, leader of the PNC described Ms. Manickchand’s speech as, “vulgar and worst than useless.”
He called on president Ramotar to disassociate his administration “from these worthless remarks and issue an unconditional apology to H.E. Ambassador D. Brent Hardt and the people of the United States of America.”
Mr. Granger recently said that there is nothing to apologize to the Guyanese people, for the twenty-eight years of PNC abuses in Guyana. Therefore, there is nothing for Ms. Manickchand or president Ramotar to apologize for.
Guyanese and only Guyanese should solve our problems. And as Guyanese we should always denounce those external forces that attempt to get involved in our internal affairs.
Good riddance to the ambassador.
Chuck Mohan
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