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Aug 27, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
Guyana faces an existential threat not because of external aggression but from within its own borders.
It has become increasingly clear with each passing day that Guyana is a country not based on the rule of law but on the whim and fancy of those who govern this land.
The vortex of crime accompanied by either the Jagdeo administration’s complicity on one hand or indifference and incompetence on the hand, is sucking the life out of a dispirited and docile population.
I struggle with myself to find an answer as to why with all the direct, circumstantial and anecdotal evidence that abound, a people who have been mistreated by successive governments would tolerate let alone accept the lack of candour and blatant disrespect from their elected officials.
Then I realise that people get the type of leaders they deserve.
If you allow no good self-serving politicians to come to your bottom house and constantly fill your head with “fear of dem want bring down the government;” then you would be too busy to see that the PPP have not delivered on the security and prosperity they promised.
You’re too busy to see that only the poor are getting poorer and those who can and leave by legal or illegal means have left or are leaving you to wallow in your fear.
I have yet to see this government accept responsibility for anything that has happened on their watch, it’s always someone else’s fault. GuySuCo loses $4 billion and it’s an act of nature (God’s fault); large scale drug trafficking; murder and mayhem; mysterious fires destroying the architectural fabric of the country – bad people who want to see the government fail and intellectual authors – are at fault.
When a permissive atmosphere, whether real or imagined is allowed to perpetuate; as a society you’re beyond slippery slope. A known drug trafficker advertises in the local paper that he “helped” the government fight the crime wave and no one cared, exposing a decaying moral compass of a nation.
Allegations of members of GDF and GPF personnel involved in extra-judicial killings; then allegations of torture; Lindo Creek; then the collapse of CLICO; then theft inside Eve Leary under the Police Commissioner’s nose (who mysteriously is still employed); more mysterious fire then the Coast Guard murder of an innocent business man.
This is followed by the perfunctory outrage by PPP leaders who know who the intellectual authors are as well as the grunt who carry out the dastardly deeds, but no one is arrested and evidence is presented in a competent court of law and convicted.
This begs the question, if all of these decadent things have happened under a duly elected government’s watch and the persons responsible for the respective sectors that have consistently failed to deliver security and deliver justice aren’t held accountable by their superiors nor their constituents; why should the international community care? This fish is rotten from the head down.
Nigel Jason
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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