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Feb 18, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
I am adding to my letter in KN of February 16, 2017 with the title; “Nigel Hinds takes issue with DR. Clive Thomas on SARU.” Dr. Walter Rodney, when referring to the 1978 referendum in a speech stated: “the people are usually asked to vote on whether they would like to vote in the future and they invariably reply no…it’s an amazing trend in the world, however, after the Guyanese people voted no, according to the Government, 90% of us said no, although only 10% of us went to the polls”.
Dr. Thomas and several others in the leadership of the WPA seem to have abandoned the working class of Guyana, some openly, others by hiding or writing in the margins on flippant matters or shadow boxing around the substantive and controversial issues of the day; always attempting to reference something worse that happened under the previous government, and never referencing the awesome and inspiring struggles of Rodney at the height of illegality, brutality and disenfranchisement in Guyana. These “colleagues” of Dr. Rodney seem to have disavowed the doctrine of Walter Rodney, which is very relevant and much needed in Guyana today.
American historian, playwright, social activist and political science professor, Howard Zinn in the Documentary about Democracy – You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train – noted “The racism that has been partly extirpated in society, all of that was not done by government edict. It was not done by the three branches of government, it was not done by that structure, which we learn about in junior high school, which they say is democracy, it was all done by citizens movements, and keep in mind that great movements in the past have arisen from small movements from tiny clusters of people who have gotten together here and there, if you have a movement strong enough, it doesn’t matter who is in the white house, what really matters is what people are doing, what people are saying and what people are demanding.”
Walter Rodney is our Howard Zinn and all Guyanese need to fully embrace the writings, pronouncements and sacrifice made by Walter Rodney, and resist the formation of oppressive institutions, division of our people and harsher living conditions before it is too late.
The positions Dr. Clive Thomas has been assigned post May 2015 Elections are multiple: 1) Presidential Advisor, 2) Head of SARU, 3) Chairman of GuySuco and 4) Commissioner on the GuySuco Commission of Inquiry. Dr. Thomas is now deeply and comfortably entrenched in the bosom of the APNU/AFC government. No conflicts there that the blind can see.
It seems to me that the powers that be in the coalition have an unhealthy fixation on Pradoville 2, particularly the property occupied by former Executive President of Guyana, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo; the obsession goes beyond reason and logic and is divisive, counterproductive and to a large extent has brought the beast known as SARU into existence. It is inevitable that over time, if SARU ever becomes SARA, it will be an extremely powerful apparatus for witch hunting, persecution and be answerable to the beck and call of the politicians’ in power.
We have already taken the ex-President to court on some wispy charge, considering all that obtains in Guyana during the pre-election period. Now to make him homeless! What an admixture of wasted energy, focus and resources; all with very bad intentions that will result in long term negative repercussions for Guyanese.
In concluding, here is a nugget on the current wrecking of Guyana’s sugar industry: I would not go as far as the German Philosopher – Arthur Schopenhauer, who claimed the writings of another German Philosopher, Georg Hegel was written in a manner to deliberately obfuscate. Instead, I note that for decades Dr. Thomas has written about Guyana’s sugar industry and how it could be revitalized and made viable. Now with Dr. Thomas as Chairman of GuySuco, the crisis in the sugar industry has accelerated – it does cause one to wonder as to the usefulness of his research and lengthy writings.
Nigel Hinds
Where is the BETTER MANAGEMENT/RENEGOTIATION OF THE OIL CONTRACTS you promised Jagdeo?
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