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The Finance Minister should accommodate Mr. Greenidge

Mar 16, 2012 Letters

 

 

DEAR EDITOR
The PPP/C government needs to be a bit more accommodating with PNC/APNU in getting the tripartite talks started, especially with Mr. Carl Greenidge, as reported in SN, 3-14-12 titled “Greenidge to boycott proposed budget meet”.
It has been obvious that Opposition Leader Mr. David Granger has been out of the loop in not being briefed by PNC insiders. He needs to fix his own house before venturing out to fix Guyana’s. While it has been obvious that Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh did indeed send out the invitations to all the opposition parties he has made his point. Let’s get down to some serious business.
No rational person can be surprised that former PNC Finance Minister Mr. Carl Greenidge is displeased about all the attacks to which he has been subjected, considering he is a viable candidate for the PNC leadership in their next party congress. Is it wise to antagonize the next party leader who Mr. Granger only beat by 15 votes?  Or would Dr. Singh prefer to deal with the others in the opposition who have no knowledge of how the Finance Ministry operates?
Already Mr. Greenidge has conceded that the crafting of the budget is the exclusive responsibility of the Finance Ministry, contrary what Mr. Granger has advocated. In negotiating about the budget, Mr. Greenidge is perhaps the only known factor to which Dr. Singh would have commonality.
If Kaieteur News columnist Mr. Frederick Kissoon (KN, 3-13-12…a politician has to bring something to the table”) is signalling what is already happening in the AFC, one would believe that he is bravely trying to plead Mr. Moses Nagamootoo’s re-entry to the PPP/C.. Fat chance. How do they say it: “it’s easier for a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter…”Well you know the rest!
If the PPP/C thinks it can call snap elections and all its disgruntled supporters will go running back to the party, it is dreaming. The party needs to have some serious “kiss and make up” sessions if it is to recoup its losses. But this cannot wait while Guyana has no budget. When so many Guyanese displayed so much apathy (130,000?) in the 2011 polls, it is a sign of much across-the-board dissatisfaction. Guyana loses in the process.
The business of managing Guyana’s affairs should not be held up by the traditional rivalries which have habitually hampered our country.  Mr. Greenidge would be doing his countrymen a big service if he were to also reconsider any reservations of not attending.  Dr. Singh’s professional courtesies should accommodate his schedule if we are to move forward.
The alternative is talking with the naïve, and hardly the best equipped candidates in either politics or moreover economics.
Sultan Mohamed

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