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Aug 28, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Over the weekend, the PPP leadership invited me to a high-level and sensitive confabulation, on the formation of a national government to circumvent what the PPP calls a waste of national resources and hardship on the psychology (their words) of the Guyanese people in facing new general elections. I was told that the PPP has agreed to create history and permit an all-embracing national government.
The meeting got off to a bad start because I insisted on payment for the gas I used to drive to Freedom House.
I intoned that I could ill-afford the expenditure on a meeting that would not be fruitful. I was assured that Guyana was at the turning point of history and I should listen to what the PPP has to say. I was told that the next day (we met on Sunday), Monday, the “goat nah bite meh” man would hold a press conference and announce the efforts by the PPP to implement an all-embracing national government.
Here is a short description of what happened. The discussion collapsed badly so it was a waste of my time and gas. I demanded my gas money and a dollar was flung in my face. I flung back the money in the face of the “goat nah bite meh man.” Security was then called to escort me out of Freedom House.
I was offered the presidency. This, the PPP said, was a gesture to the Guyanese people to concretize the goodwill and generosity of the PPP (their words). I was told that the Prime Minister’s slot must come from the PPP and two names were offered. I rejected Clement Rohee. I argued that before he assumed the Prime Minister’s post, there must be an investigation into the visa scandal.
In 2005, Mr. Rohee’s non-immigrant and diplomatic visas were withdrawn for six months. It remains a mystery why they were suspended. Mr. Rohee’s comical explanation so far, was that the US looked back at its record and saw that he, Rohee, was in the picket line outside the US Embassy in 1971 protesting the Vietnam War.
This is untrue, since all the major leaders in the opposition parties in 1971 and even the YSM, youth arm of the ruling PNC, had picketed the US Embassy, and all these people have American visas to this day; at no time such was suspended. Mr. Rohee’s explanation, to use strong language, is elephant dung. The other name given to me was Roger Luncheon. When the name was mentioned I yelled out for Bobby Ramroop, owner of Guyana Times and manufacturer of Limacol. I needed some Limacol, because I almost fainted.
Things were heading in a volcanic direction, because I insisted that I would not be President and have Charles Ramson as Commissioner of Information. I demanded his immediate dismissal. I cited two incidents. One was at a press conference in which he yelled out (as reported in the media), things that may not be wise to be printed. But I guess my readers would know, because I have written on this several times. Secondly, his reply to Transparency International on its request for a document was so distasteful that it warrants his removal.
I argued that if I was going to be President, then the three publicly-owned swimming pools must be opened to the public. It was rejected. I asked for the removal of the seven PPP members including four parliamentarians who sit on the UG Council. It was rejected. I demanded that Neil Kumar, the Director of Sport, has so embarrassed this country in the eyes of the world with some incredibly amazing nonsense that his removal must be immediate. It was rejected.
I demanded that Minister Frank Anthony pay those outstanding debts the Carifesta Secretariat still owes, including some performers and small people like a printer from the East Bank and the $1.4 million to the Theatre Guild. It was rejected. Space would not permit an enumeration of all my demands that created exasperation and lead to the breakdown. But the last straw for the PPP was the Bharrat Jagdeo thing.
I pointed out that the first act I will perform as President of Guyana is to have a Judicial Commission of Jurists from the Caribbean, Third World, the US and Europe to inquire into the period of Bharrat Jagdeo’s rule. And I would stipulate that every conceivable document be tendered.
I was angrily told that the era of Mr. Jagdeo is gone and I should let sleeping dogs lie. One leader who holds Canadian citizenship said in a sickening Canadian accent that we must move on. I insisted that Jagdeo be investigated. The meeting then ended abruptly.
Note: The context of this article is satire and must be read as such
Where is the BETTER MANAGEMENT/RENEGOTIATION OF THE OIL CONTRACTS you promised Jagdeo?
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