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Mar 08, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
The talk as to who will succeed Mr. Jagdeo is gaining momentum, and will certainly be a favourite topic of conversation as 2009 gets older.
If you examine the two major contenders – Ramkarran and Ramotar – one thread will connect all their commentaries – they will carefully eschew any discussion of the 16 years of PPP rule. Mr. Ralph Ramkarran gave a long interview to the Kaieteur News In January, but not one line appeared on how he felt on the 16 years of his party’s control over Guyana.
In the interview which took up almost two pages, Mr. Ramkarran serenaded readers with a plethora of stories of his involvement against dictatorship under the PNC. Some of the cases of violations he mentioned are child’s play in comparison to what his party in government is currently doing
In fact, Mr. Ramkarran was proud enough to say that he has a leadership position in the PPP. One would have thought that he would at least acknowledge his moral obligation to the SN because of his position at Cameron and Shepherd, a close associate of the law firm of SN’s founder David De Caires. Mr. Ramkarran held up his political curriculum vitae so high that it almost reached the skies, but the contents existed in the past.
There was no observation that his Government failed Guyana when it attacked and tried to destroy the SN. Mr. Ramkarran as a lawyer had to know that the Sanata divestment deal didn’t meet legal requirements. For a presidential contender, it would have enhanced his credentials if he haD told his readers about some of the policies he has in store for the country, should he become President Mr. Ramkarran couldn’t do that, and Mr. Donald Ramotar will not do so because one would like to think that, the next day, scores of people would have asked them separately that how come as one of the big-wigs in his party, his organisation, isn’t pursuing those very policies. Mr. Ramkarran, Donald Ramotar and Robert Persaud want to be the President of Guyana, but they respectively want it on a platter. They do not want to be asked by the media to comment on 16 years of misrule.
They do not want to be asked by the media to give their opinion on the:
1- Nirmal Rekha and the more than 50 bogus duty-free letters he signed as proved by the GRA’s investigation
2 – Refusal of the US Embassy to grant the Minister of Foreign Trade four years ago a visa to travel to the US
3 – Refusal to end the radio monopoly
4 – Refusal to accept the Freedom of Information Act
5 – Refusal to hold an inquiry in the Great Floods of 2005 when the Guyanese people know the floods resulted from the conservancy breach
6 – The abysmal record of not one major narcotics trafficker being caught on Guyanese soil
7 – The continued delay in the establishment of the DEA office in Georgetown
8 – The continued delay in having the anti-money laundering commission
9 – The continued refusal to have the Human Rights Commission
10 – The deplorable sexual misconduct of two high-level politicians
11 – The mysterious absence of any charge of corruption against even a third-tier PPP leader, much less those at the second and higher levels
12 – The abuse of power at UG that exceeded Burnham’s impulses
13 – The nasty domination of the state-owned media that is worsE than when Burnham ruled
14 – The retention of a Ministerial Advisor engaged in conduct unbecoming, that Burnham would not have tolerated
15 – The incredibly cheap sell-out of Guyana’s lands and properties that no PNC Government would have ever contemplated, and no other party except the PPP 16 would ever think of doing
16 – A blog suspected to be run by people sympathetic to the government that any decent human being would find nauseating, with people photographed having homosexual love and the deliberately false identification of who these people are.
And the publishing of opposition politicians’ faces with the faces of what is suppose to be the faces of their outside women. All presidential contenders from all parties should denounce this blog and call in the police immediately.
This letter would end up being as long as Mr. Ramkarran’s self-righteous interview if I had done my research. I just listed what came to mind.
The media allow the PPP contenders for the presidency to get away with political murder. We tolerate their deliberate evasiveness.
The media is afraid to confront them on their major failures. But, at the end of the day, when the mountains of facts are carefully examined, this is a government that is becoming the worst in the history of the Caribbean. Mr. Ramkarran and Mr. Ramotar must be pressed by the media on their attitude to wanton and degenerative exercise of power that is making Guyana an eye-sore in the world.
Frederick Kissoon
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