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Apr 26, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
Bharrat Jagdeo has not only rammed both of his feet into his mouth at the PPP rally at Albion last Sunday, he also rammed his tongue down his throat at his Freedom House press conference when he said that he did not physically abuse his common-law wife and former first lady, Varshine Singh at State House for eight years. First of all, Jagdeo should be ashamed in that it took him six years to respond to his wife accusations of the abuse and the trauma she went through at State House.
Second, for him to tell the nation that the only time he committed physical violence against women was at age ten when he fought his sisters is deceptive. Also, he has always portrayed himself to be the victim when in fact, he is the initiator of all his evil and vindictive wrong doings too numerous to mention.
It should be made clear that no one has ever accused Jagdeo of physically abusing his wife and he knows that. It is the former first lady, Varshine Singh who said that Jagdeo used high-tech domestic violence against her for eight years by locking her out of their marital bedroom at State House only after a week of their marriage, by refusing to support her and by using his power as president to sabotage every project she under took. Plain and simple, this type of devious behavior is what experts characterized as mental abuse, which is some cases is just as bad or as worse than physical abuse.
Jagdeo has not only verbally and mentally abused his wife, but he also lied to the nation for almost a decade that he was married when he was not. And during their divorce proceedings, he lied to the court that he was poor and cannot meet the demands of financial support for his wife, but shortly after the divorce, he built a mansion.
And Guyanese do not believe Jagdeo when he said that he condemned the actions of the Minister of Health, Bheri Ramsarran for threatening physical violence against Sherlinga Nageer for exercising her democratic rights. Rather than addressing the issues raised by Ms. Nageer, Minister Bheri Ramsaran has chosen to verbally attack her and to physical strip her naked as well. He has learned well from Jagdeo who has set a very low bench mark for the way women should be treated in Guyana.
If Jagdeo is honest and is so concerned about the Minister’s vulgar and abusive behavior against Ms. Nageer, then he should ask Ramotar to demand his resignation. Neither Jagdeo nor Ms. Harper who also condemned the Minister’s disgraceful and vulgar behavior against Ms. Nageer would have demanded his resignation, because it is in the DNA of the PPP leaders to constantly abuse, mistreat and degrade women. And they will only apologize when they are caught on tape or video as was the case of the taped conversations between Anil Nandalall and Kaieteur News reporter, Leonard Kildarie. In the case of Ms. Nageer, an apology by the Minister is not enough, he should definitely resign.
The only reason Jagdeo condemned the minister’s behavior is because of the election campaign and they wanted the women’s votes. Had it not been for the current election campaign, Jagdeo, Ramotar and the entire Freedom House gang, including the female leaders would have praised Minister Bheri Ramsaran for his unrighteous behavior.
Clearly, the President has made a terrible mistake by reprimanding and not getting rid of the Minister and for putting Jagdeo as the front man in the campaign but they have no choice, because it is Jagdeo and not Ramotar who is running the country. Jagdeo’s racist and fear mongering statements and character assassinations are part of his DNA and so is his poor leadership. He is an oppressor who does not have the moral fortitude to defend the rights of women. Now they are making another grave mistake by not demanding the resignation of the vulgar and abusive Bheri Ramsaran.
Dr. Asquith Rose, Chandra Deolall and Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks.
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