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Dec 31, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Tomorrow brings a new year. What we are not sure of is whether tomorrow will bring happiness, the central pursuit all humans. For Guyanese this becomes a pressing problem. This is a very unhappy nation
You talk to all classes of people and most would tell you that though they don’t want to discuss politics, they do feel that Guyana is not going anywhere. The simple truth about this country is that Guyanese do not believe there is a future for them.
Tonight, President Ramotar will address the nation and one wonders if he will be sincere in what he says. This is a man who on the 50th anniversary celebration of UG, got emotional in his address and urged Guyanese not to let our separate ideas divide us, and yelled out, “For Christ’s Sale let’s try them.” But he is opposed to rejects all ideas once they are not from his party.
This is not a land where a few social deviancies are the exception to the norm; on the contrary this country has broken down. The murder rate is horrendous, and the frightening dimension of that violence is that the rate of solving homicides, gangland slayings and drug trafficking is abysmal. No other example proves the failed state status of this country than a homicide that took place on Orange Walk. The shooting was captured on tape yet the accused had to be properly freed because the police did not present the evidence.
In 2013, we had a series of huge cocaine interceptions and without exception, all the accused arrested and placed before the courts were at the very bottom on the conspiracy. If you want to see the failed state that Guyana has become, take a look at constructions that are going up. This writer called his editor, Adam Harris, Zoisa Fraser of the Stabroek News and Denis Chabrol of Demerara Waves and pointed out to them a structure that is going up, and the owner has taken up the gutter which drains water when it rains.
Guyana has become as crazy as this. Who says the judicial system works in this country? Two of the finest sons of this country, both of whom are lawyers, have told me the judicial system in Guyana is a broken one in which money comes first and justice is a footnote where the names of the poor are written in watery ink that quickly fades as day turns into night.
This is a country where even the inhibitions exhibited by oligarchs in banana republics are absent. The power wielders behave even worse than their Latin American and African counterparts. A power-wielder moves into Queenstown on Peter Rose Street and promptly gets the police to declare that part of the street where he lives a one-way corridor.
I interviewed the then traffic chief on this high class nonsense and he couldn’t determine for me who gave the order. Up to this day, the police refuse interview requests on this absurdity.
Money runs the law, the judiciary, the police and the government in this land. This is a banana republic in every sense. A low level employee of a well known but controversial business place is allegedly caught with cocaine at the airport. The owner quickly moves to hold an internal investigation to make sure the public knows that his company was not involved.
He employs an opposition MP to lead the probe. The circus in Guyana may be comical but it is also deadly.
In the meantime, every inch of state owned property is being sold off to an incestuous cabal. If the next general election is won by the opposition parties, they will govern over the schools buildings, the police, army, the sugar estates and the Bank of Guyana building.
There won’t be any public lands left to do anything with. Now part of UG estate has been taken over by a police lab thereby limiting the expansion of UG. To be remembered is the fact that President Jagdeo assigned the remaining land at UG seven years ago to build a football stadium promised by FIFA. If Jack Warner had delivered then that was it for UG; it had no other land to expand.
In Guyana, the nouveau riche controls power, territory, legal relations, the police, the bureaucracy; in other words the entire country. And if you want to see how unlucky this country is then read about the tragedy of two policemen who tried to stop a man shooting at the public on Middle Street but died in the process.
Their combined pay is far less than what the nouveau riche spends one evening at the club.
LISTEN HOW JAGDEO WILL MAKE ALL GUYANESE RICH!!!
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