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Jun 05, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
The people of Guyana have suffered under the tyranny of the PNC who ruled with despotism between 1968 and 1991. Oppressed and broken in spirit, the people lived their days in poverty, fear and agony. Then in 1992, after a long battle between the PNC and an old political warrior Dr. Jagan, the PNC was defeated at the polls. All Guyanese, regardless of race, cheered for the old political warrior upon his victory, and all were willing to work with him as he made the commitment to serve and protect them. The belief was that the old political warrior was going to bring prosperity to all the people, especially the poor and the working class whom he fought for all his life by practicing a philosophy of lean and clean governance—a government accountable to the people.
So Dr. Jagan, the old political warrior cloaked himself in the Burnham’s armour (a PNC Constitution) and started to serve the people. Time and hard work eventually took its toll on the tireless old political warrior and in 1997, he was no more.
In 2001 a young boy with very little or no experience in leadership took over the reins of power in a country that was starved of youthful leadership. Cloaked in the PNC’s armour (now a bastardized version of the PNC Constitution), this inexperienced young boy started out well as peace fell over the land and the economic well-being of the people began to improve due in large part to the debt write offs by the developed countries.
In less than five years, the young boy became accustomed to the reverence of the people, but ego and greed stepped in after he discovered the vast riches in the Treasury. Today, the young boy and his inheritors of power, who were schooled in the ways of Dr. Jagan, now govern in the same dictatorial manner as Burnham and the PNC did twenty-two years earlier. One of the earlier philosophers said “Dragons come in many forms, and the warriors who take their place have many faces.”
For many years the people of Guyana continued their second era of poverty, agony and hopelessness as they lived in fear under the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal, their new dictator.
But as time passes, the people could not stand it anymore, so in 2011 they have decided to empower a new warrior, (the AFC) to crush the PPP oppressors. With the pedigree of righteous and courageous leaders, the AFC was ready for the battle, but with only seven seats in Parliament its leaders realized that they alone cannot vanquish the new oppressors in the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal; others must join the effort.
The truth remains; no one political or social force can defeat the Ramotar/Jagdeo cabal, for the Treasury holds a magic that engulfs the will of the strongest warrior.
To this end we encourage all Guyanese to join with Nigel Hughes on his mission to write a new Constitution for the country that truly empowers our institutions, empowers our judiciary, and empowers our people to conduct themselves in a manner that best serves and protects them and not only the President and his PPP untouchables.
It is our humble conclusion that even if you appoint the head of the Church as the President of Guyana; he will operate in a manner very similar to Jagdeo because his armour (the bastardized Burnham/Jagdeo Constitution) will not allow him to be his true self.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh
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