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Nov 20, 2012 Letters
Dear Editor,
President Ramotar does not get it and has mistakenly vowed to continue Jagdeo’s policies with the hope of staying in power and not be pushed out by the Jagdeoites. The truth is Mr. President, it is not about maintaining political power, because ultimate power does not reside with you; it resides with the people. The people can take away that power in the same fashion that they entrusted it to you. Therefore, your focus ought not to be on becoming totally dependent upon the Jagdeoites, who we believe are in control. Instead, your focus should be on the authority vested in you by the constitution and finding the right way to use it fairly and responsibly to improve the lives of all Guyanese, especially the poor and the working class who are at the bottom of the economic ladder.
The authority entrusted in you on December 5, 2011, is not about you; it is about the people who are saying that it is time to review your leadership and act independently of your predecessor. What is so disgusting is that you have made little or no effort to distance yourself from the previous regime which has a very poor record on good governance.
We expect you to do your utmost to act in the best interest of the poor and the working class which your party claims to represent. We expect you to embark on a series of legislation and a sound economic program that will bring prosperity to Guyana and thus improve the lives of all Guyanese. We expect you to fulfill your election promise to end corruption, lower the crime rate, reduce VAT and increase wages/salaries by 10%.
Last but not least, we expect you to provide good and transparent governance and to govern in the interest of all Guyanese. But after almost one year in office, you seem to have lost your way, as none of the aforementioned issues has been achieved.
It is not the norm for the president to lambaste and accuse others, especially the opposition and the printed media of unfairness, because they find aspects of his leadership style to be flawed. Good leaders are never preoccupied with how good they think they are, but rather with how much better they can become. So if President Ramotar is serious about holding on to power, it could redound to his benefit to start connecting with the people, reduce VAT and the toll on the Berbice Bridge, stamp out corruption, and develop an economic program that will provide employment for the youths, and effectively manage the resources of the state so that not only the privileged few, but all will benefit, irrespective of their ethnicity or party affiliation. This is the transformational role expected from the head of state to bring meaningful change to the lives of the citizens of Guyana.
And although we have sensed some disappointment in Mr. Ramotar, we believe that he should move away from the petty politics of the past and engage all the stakeholders to help him identify viable developmental projects, and should not give up an inch of ground to those who want him to allocate taxpayers’ money toward political payback favors or to fund risky political projects such as the Marriott Hotel.
But we are convinced that the Jagdeoites will not allow Mr. Ramotar to do what is in the best interest of the poor and the working class, but what is in their own interest. In fact, Mr. Ramotar has given us a taste of his arrogant and inept leadership when it took him over a month to visit the people of Linden during the month-long unrest, and his contempt of the laws and disrespect for Parliament and the people’s representatives as he continues to ignore the no-confidence motion passed by the Assembly against Mr. Rohee. His support for Rohee has not only delayed the country’s progress, but he and his cabal have made this individual the centre of their political focus thus abandoning the people’s business.
So far, the PPP has accomplished what they had set out to do and that is to deceive the people. In 1992, they had promised to end corruption, power outages and the shortage of potable water, but 20 years later corruption remains rampant, there are more blackouts now, and potable water has become a scarce commodity in the land of many waters.
The PPP has also blamed the PNC for lack of good governance and transparency in government, today Guyana has the most secretive government in all of the Caribbean. Not only is the government involved in secret deals with the Marriott Hotel, the Amaila Falls Hydro Project and the expansion of the airport, they also cannot account for billions of taxpayers’ dollars that are missing from NICIL, NIS, the Contingency Fund and the Lotto fund.
It is plain as daylight that the people are being duped by the regime and the opposition is missing in action most of the times, as the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal runs around like a chicken without a head. The opposition needs to be in touch with the citizens of the country in order to know the pulse of the nation. They must step up, expose and rebuke the evil and corrupt practices of the PPP regime and encourage the people to speak out against extravagances of this regime.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh
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