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May 23, 2015 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
It is now scarcely news that the government of Guyana has changed. The APNU/AFC coalition has won the government. Soon enough the most pressing matters of the day would not be the questionable transactions of the PPP/C government in the years it held office. The shoe is now on the other foot.
The public, as time passes, will be more hyped up about the dealings of the new APNU/AFC government, what possible scandals are being hatched behind closed doors, what lopsided deals are being forged both above board and under the table.
For years, columnist Freddie Kissoon used his pen as a torch to bring to light all manner of improprieties of the PPP/C, both real and imagined. Yet it needs to be said and perhaps repeatedly, that the anti-corruption fight has no end point. It does not fold up with an APNU/AFC victory on May 11th.
In fact, there is no finish line. The catalogue of corrupt acts is long enough to span successive governments and countries that encircle the globe.
As someone well read in philosophy, history, literature and the sciences, Kissoon knows that there is enough human nature to touch all of us as individuals and fester in all organizations, be it APNU, AFC or PPP/C. Is there no greedy bone in any of the top leaders of the coalition? Is there not even the faintest desire to exploit public office for personal profit? Is there no taste in any of them for victimization?
So the question that now needs to be asked: Can someone who seemingly views the APNU/AFC coalition as some sort of a messianic outfit, be a cheerleader-in-chief for the new government and its political critic-in-chief at the same time? Kaieteur News hopefully will work this out.
In the meantime, the struggle for clean and competent governance will go on, constantly a work-in-progress despite which party holds power and even after APNU/AFC makes its exit.
Wesley Hicken
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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