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Feb 22, 2013 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
On this matter of giving away our jobs, the people are heavily relying on the media to hold the government accountable because the government wishes it didn’t have to answer to us.
It is unfortunate the PPP has sunk to a new low in an effort to wriggle out of selling our birthright to foreigners.
The PPP should be asked to provide the law and migrant convention highlighting the sections allowing a government to hire foreign workers in preference of nationals when such jobs were not advertised or the local population denied priority.
Were they asked to do this, they would be singing a different tune. Even though the government claims it has a policy to attract skills, it needs to tell us what skills it is seeking to attract that we do not have.
This government can only think and function best when it cries racism and creates smokescreens to hide its nefarious actions.
It is arrant nonsense on the part of Gail Teixeira and Anil Nandlall to accuse Guyanese of racism and anti-nationalism when all we are demanding is the right to work and as Guyanese, we be given preferential treatment.
If the PPP is using the race and anti-national tactics in their bottom-house meetings I hope their supporters are not allowing the party’s bigwigs to insult their intelligence by having them feel it is okay for their families to be unemployed when their money is being used to fund these projects.
Being pro-Guyanese does not make us racist or anti-national and there are Guyanese of Chinese extraction whom we share a relationship of camaraderie, and of which the PPP is now trying to manufacture a division.
The only anti-national here is the PPP government who is clearly showing it doesn’t care about Guyana and Guyanese and is not ashamed to cry wolf when it is garbed in the outfit.
If the other projects may have escaped public scrutiny or outcries as is happening now does not make the situation right. It is scary the PPP makes claim to an immigration policy that allows it to attract overseas skills already existing in Guyana and pay out our money to foreigners, but they have no immigration policy that would see Guyanese going and work in certain industries and return their earnings to Guyana. How convenient that the government ignores this policy utlised by sister CARICOM countries in the hotel and agriculture industries.
To the government’s point that Guyanese are working overseas, these workers are working under different categories.
They were forced to migrate because there are no jobs or they had to work under poor conditions, normal migration, transferred technology, CSME free movement of skills, or doing jobs the host countries’ workers refuse to.
Have the PPP show us how many projects, if any, that are funded by the taxpayers of Russia, China and India and their governments gave first preference to foreigners when their people are willing and able to do the jobs.
This is the crux of the matter. It is made even more glaring when you look at the ratio of Guyanese needing jobs or have the skills to do the job and are being denied opportunities to work compared to those that are being imported to do the jobs funded by Guyanese.
The foreign governments and businesses are reaping two sweet out of one joint.
They are making sure a hefty sum of the money they loan Guyana sees immediate repatriation by having their people do the jobs and later having Guyanese repay the loans. The government needs to stop its embarrassing excuses and selling out our birthright for a few pieces of silver in somebody’s pocket.
Leslie Gonsalves
President, GB&GWU
and Region 10
Councillor
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