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These men’s attitudes have become more immature each passing day

Oct 01, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
The more those who tell themselves they have what it takes to lead the PNC or decide who must be the leader stop behaving like children and start behaving like men, the sooner people will have respect for them and seek their leadership.
My reason for penning this letter has to do with Tony Jones’ letter “Are we witnessing the PNCR demise?” (Kaieteur News 29/9/2010)
When it is not Dr Richard Van West Charles, Mr. Winston Murray, Mr. Vincent Alexander, Mr. Aubrey Norton, Mr. Hamilton Green, Mr. Raphael Trotman, Mr. James Mc Allister, it is Mr. Tony Jones and tomorrow it will be another. At various point in the PNC’s history, when these ‘men’ do not get what they want they have gone on vendetta rampage to destroy the same organisation they say they love and want to lead. While this makes sense to them it defies logic to the ordinary man.
These grown persons are not setting standards for the youths to emulate and for their families and friends to be proud of. They are so engrossed in themselves that they no longer care about exposing their abusive and embarrassing attitudes and the fact that they are hurting more than helping the PNC. From the party’s Founding Leader Mr. Forbes Burnham, to Mr. Desmond Hoyte and now Mr. Robert Corbin they have been persons who felt that they were better than these three and should lead the party. Their attitudes have become more immature each passing day.
Mr. Hamilton Green’s feud with Mr. Desmond Hoyte reached to the point where in the 1997 elections he took out a full page newspapers advertisement asking voters not to vote for the PNC and if they must vote, cast their ballot for the PPP. He walked around the place and cussed out Mr. Hoyte and the PNC. Today Mr. Green is back in the very party he tried to destroy. Mr. Aubrey Norton was General Secretary and cussed out Mr. Hoyte saying he was irrelevant and is now too back in the party. Dr. Van West Charles left Guyana for years, recently returned, nominated for the position of party leader, withdrew and gave his support to Mr. Winston Murray who lost to Mr. Corbin, now there are out there attacking the very party and members they want to lead. It was the same of Vincent Alexander, who is a GECOM Commissioner, a position that was made possible by the PNC under Mr. Corbin’s leadership. Messrs.
Murray and Norton are PNC parliamentarians but they do not visit the communities or raise their voices on issues affecting the downtrodden and oppressed.
Mr. Tony Jones is hurting because he lost the election to be leader of PNC North America. Recently Mr. Jones held a colloquium in the USA funded by AFC supporters so it doesn’t make sense he is writing claiming to be a PNC supporter and interested in the party.
These grown persons should come into the modern era and recognise that in management you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. There is no escaping responsibility and culpability, however, hard Jones, Van West, Murray, Alexander, Norton, Mc Allister and others try to. This selfish personality that is supported by their vendetta politics is not helping the masses and emasculates them in the eyes of the public.
If Tony Jones is a student of history he will know that if Messrs. Green who was party General Secretary and top government minister, Aubrey Norton who was General Secretary and Vincent Alexander who was Vice Chairman could not break the party, a non-entity cannot break the party or make the party leader resigned. Better than him have tried since the days of Mr. Burnham and they have all failed.  They will do well to heed the wise words of Mr. Hoyte that they are all creatures of the party.
Gary Drakes

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