Latest update April 25th, 2024 12:59 AM
Apr 20, 2012 Letters
Dear Editor,
Elections in Independent Guyana occurred in 1968, 1973, 1980, 1985, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2011. Throwing out the official election results by assuming that election results from 1968 to 2011 were won by the PPP; based on their public statements and propaganda. Guyana would now be in its 44th year of domination by the PPP hierarchy and their elite supporters.
Essentially a one-party rule of one ethnic group over another ethnic group, the likes of Forbes Burnham’s intellectual power, scholarship and vision that has been the cornerstone of Guyana’s development – no longer a factor.
Great Guyanese such as Walter Rodney, Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Desmond Hoyte, Eusi Kwayana, Clive Thomas, Haslyn Parris, Noel Blackman, Winston Murray, David Granger, Carl Greenidge and Vincent Alexander, among many others would not have seen the benefits to Guyana of their mastery of History, Politics, Economics, Medicine, Law, Finance and Administration, and the accompanying strengthening of Guyana’s Social and Economic development for all Guyanese.
Instead, these great Guyanese would have lived on the periphery as PPP used its slim voting plurality supposedly gained in the nine national elections to systemically and structurally ostracise and disenfranchise non-supporters of the PPP to second class status; while the inner circle of the PPP exploit and rape Guyana of its cultural and economic wealth using nepotism and cronyism to embed their control and supremacy over the public and private sectors of Guyana under the pretext of “law” and “democracy”.
It is apt to note that the “law” in the U.S. recognized African Americans as three-fifths of a person to a whole person as recently as 1865. As Thomas Paine noted in his seminal work Common Sense (1775) a pamphlet seen by many historians as the rallying call for rejection of British island rule over the U.S. continent:
“First: That it is the interest of America to be separated from Britain. Secondly: Which is the easiest and most practicable plan, reconciliation or independence?… But it is the independence of this country from Britain or any other which is now the main and only object worthy of contention, and which, like all other truths discovered by necessity, will appear clearer and stronger every day.
First: Because it will come to that one time or other. Secondly: Because the longer it is delayed the harder it will be to accomplish.”
John Milton in his poem Paradise Lost published in 1667 noted “never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.” This is clearly evidenced by the deceptive, discriminatory and injurious conduct of the PPP over the period from 1992 until now, during which the PPP have been in control of the Presidency and the Executive.
The use of arson, sabotage, strikes and the spread of local and international propaganda by the PPP to destabilize the development and growth agendas of President Burnham and President Hoyte, illustrate the ongoing practice of the PPP to place itself political party ahead of country.
We are now in the much clichéd “New Dispensation” brought about by GECOM flawed management of the November 28, 2011 National Elections and an undemocratic and hard to make out electoral system. The PPP once again controls the Presidency and the Executive. The time is most favourable for a solution by our leaders to the current governmental disorder, by seeking Autonomy at the Regional Levels.
I finish by rephrasing Walter Rodney from his letter in the Nationalist newspaper (Tanzania) December 17 1969 “we must not live as servile subjects in our own lands”.
Nigel Hinds
Jagdeo giving Exxon 102 cent to collect 2 cent.
Apr 25, 2024
By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – The French Diplomatic Office in Guyana, in collaboration with the Guyana Olympic Association and UNICEF, hosted an exhibition on Tuesday evening at the...Kaieteur News – Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, persists in offering... more
By Sir Ronald Sanders Waterfalls Magazine – On April 10, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States... more
Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
Feel free to send us your comments and/or criticisms.
Contact: 624-6456; 225-8452; 225-8458; 225-8463; 225-8465; 225-8473 or 225-8491.
Or by Email: [email protected] / [email protected]