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Oct 07, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
In a very plausible editorial, on Sunday, the Stabroek News made a virtual mockery, acceptably so, of President Ramotar’s pitch to members of the Guyana Diaspora to return home. The paper observed that Guyana has been waiting for over twenty-two years for this journey and it stated that Ramotar knows that it will not happen in the near future.
An unfortunate lapse in this interesting commentary is the fact that not only will they not return, but that even family members and close relatives of the entire PPP edifice have been leaving Guyana since the PPP came to power and are still doing so. The tempo has increased the past ten years.
A statistical compilation is difficult to pursue because the immigration records will not have a section listing family members of the PPP. But in a small society like this it is public knowledge of who is related to whom and who has migrated. The names are staggering. The list includes family members and close relatives of every single PPP big wig, without exception. Let me emphasize – there is no exception in the PPP’s pyramid. The exodus takes in children, spouses, parents, uncles, aunties, nieces, nephews, cousins and girlfriends and boyfriends.
What is interesting to note, is that many members of the PPP hierarchy and their children actually hold foreign citizenship and this classification takes in even the circle of Cheddi Jagan himself. Some intriguing dimensions should be noted. Those who had spouses, children and very close relatives in foreign lands when the PPP came to power have not seen the return of these folks.
For sure the children born overseas are not returning. Did Ramotar appeal to this category? He should; after all their parents are in charge of a large Caribbean country and their parents do whatever they want to this country and take whatever they want from it. Six years ago, the young son of one of the PPP’s monarch’s enlisted in the US army and did service in Iraq. Surely, his papa couldn’t persuade him that service in Guyana was a better option.
There are other dimensions to analyze in Ramotar’s plea to the diaspora. Take the Indian supporters in foreign lands that embrace the PPP because Indians are in charge. They aren’t coming back. Dolly Hassan is happy to live with an African president of the US but not an African ruler of Guyana.
Ms. Hassan announced recently that the PNC and AFC have not developed the wisdom and maturity to govern Guyana. But the man who evicted his wife from the marital bedroom one week after the union has the maturity to rule. Did Ramotar appeal to Dolly? Yes, but Dolly isn’t coming back. She is happy with her second class citizenship in Little Berbice in New York.
Rickey Singh was a consultant to the PPP for the general elections in 2011 but he didn’t come home to be with his Indian acolytes. Singh hasn’t been in Guyana the last twenty years. He has made it plain he won’t live in Guyana again. Did Ramotar persuade him to return?
Oscar Ramjeet hides his pro-government sentiments by writing his pro-Ramotar panegyrics in the Guyana Times and not Kaieteur News and Stabroek News. He will be doing legal work for the PPP soon. But Ramjeet ain’t coming back. Did Ramotar beg him to come home? Ramjeet is an interesting fellow.
I went to UG the same time as he. I can still picture him in his immaculate shirt-jac walking along the corridors. Always with books in hand; always with a broad grin on his face; always praising President Forbes Burnham; always proud of his governmental connection. From Burnham to Ramotar, Ramjeet is still on the journey of bedding undemocratic regimes.
And what about the guy who stared in Jagdeo’s eyes and saw Jagdeo’s democratic instincts? Is he coming back? Nah! I doubt it. Did Ramotar ask him to?
There are still more dimension about this call to return home. Do you know the most sycophantic support for the Jagdeo/Ramotar combination comes from the business people, especially the circus clowns in the Private Sector Commission? Do you know a majority of parents in this PPP sponsored circus send their kids to foreign universities?
Ask them about UG and they don’t know what that is. Some of them may think that you are talking about United Guyana, an AIDS awareness programme. De Donald cannot be that foolish to interpret courtesy with acceptance.
He went to Miami and met Guyanese who were gracious to attend but De Donald knows that they aren’t coming back.
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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