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Oct 14, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
It does not matter what asinine, bizarre and incredible language the protégés of Cheddi Jagan use to describe the way they see the world, Guyana and themselves. It doesn’t matter how toxic and miasmic is the detergent they use to wash their souls, these abysmal failures cannot see how pathetic they look on the stage they have occupied for too long. You become a horrible sight if you cannot see that the audience has left, the lights are out, and the curtain is drawn. You become a tragic figure of yesterday
This is what has become of the PPP. The party founders are long gone, but the PPP limps along, flirting with the dreams of a bygone age and wallowing in its manufactured dirt that it constantly mistakes for creative spirit.
It has to be one of the saddest days for politics anywhere in the world for Clement Rohee to be described as the best Cabinet Minister of the PPP Government since 1992, second only to the most macabre example that Dr. Roger Luncheon can conjure up – Bharrat Jagdeo.
Mr. Jagdeo is the most incompetent, unpatriotic, ill-mannered, unschooled, unintellectual, non-achieving and ordinary head of government/State that the Caribbean has produced.
Dr. Roger Luncheon has been the chief of staff in the Office of the President for twenty years – the same duration with which he holds the post of chairman of the NIS .
The priceless NIS has an uncertain future and the Office of the President is the most unpopular national place in Guyana, courtesy of Luncheon’s golden boy, Bharrat Jagdeo. After twenty years of failure, Luncheon has not been visited with mental stress or psychological burden, but psychic disintegration.
There can be no other description of this gentleman. Which rational person could face other human beings and consciously describe Rohee as the second best Cabinet Minister he has worked with? If any politician has been a non-entity in modern world politics it has been Clement Rohee.
Incapable of grasping the finer points of human relationships, incapable of discerning what are the contents of a sensitive situation, incapable of comprehending the elementary dimensions of human nature, Mr. Rohee has been a failure his whole life as a political activist that I have grown up with, and a Minister in a government.
If this is Luncheon’s boy then what do you make of Luncheon himself? We can make a lot of Luncheon by just looking at him the past twenty years, observing his deportment, speeches and policies, and it becomes simple to understand why he would pick Rohee and Jagdeo as his stellar performers.
The reason for Luncheon’s choice is that for all his life, he had no standard by which to judge the quality of Guyanese patriots. If you live in the gutter, you accept the sound of crickets as the best music you have ever heard.
When someone gives you a Bob Marley record or plays the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, you scream and throw them away. Naturally, so, you have nothing to compare them with – only crickets of course.
Should Luncheon go? When a man who is second in charge of a country (forget about Sam; waste of time) could in one of the most sensitive of situations in the nation’s history make fun of a tragedy by calling on the opposition to rumble, then you know his psychic fibre is gone. Luncheon should have gone a long time.
Sick, feeble, undynamic, uninspiring, incompetent and oblivious to any kind of reality, Roger Luncheon was and is a burden on the political culture of Guyana, just as his favourite Minister was and is. The most bizarre dimension of his personality and politics is his indecipherable and inexplicable language.
I am not a specialist in grammar, but I was taught grammar by one of Guyana’s most competent grammarians – the brother of one of Guyana’s intellectual giants, Professor Rawle Farley. I can say most graphically, Luncheon’s press conferences are characterized by the art of stringing words together that have no grammatical and semantic meaning.
I cannot believe the nonsense in sentence structure that comes out of this man’s mouth. Simply put – most of what he says in response to media questions have no meaning in terms of the use of words and are confusing and nonsensical.
There may be signs that Marvin Hamlisch’s entertainer may be nearing his end, he and the rest of the cast. After twenty years, a dictatorship gets weary and immobilized. There is no question in my mind if it wasn’t the twenty-year malady that Luncheon is living with, he would never have invited the opposition to rumble over Rohee’s resignation motivated by the tragedy of five persons’ death.
Dictatorship does destroy the mind.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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