Ralph has been a member of the Guyana elite class for many many years. Did he ever had to work and pay for tuition like some of us when we studied at Western institutions?
Wally, Ralph Ramkarran has been a practising attorney-at-law for over 40 years. With his earnings he built a house in his father Boysie Ramkarran's yard.
The professional class of lawyers and doctors in Guyana are relatively elite in the sense of their occupational accomplishments.
Ralph Ramkarran didn't have to pay for his legal studies in England because Boysie paid it from honestly earned and taxable income. Ralph in turn paid for his two sons' legal studies.
Whatever Ralph Ramkarran possesses today, he earned the honest way. And he has every right to comment on the get-rich-quick PPP cabal.
While in England as a law student in the late 1960s, Ralph Ramkarran helped to organize picketing exercises against Burnham and the Guyana High Commission. In an interview published in the UK “Times” newspaper, he helped the PPP to expose the PNC rigging of the overseas vote in the 1968 general elections. It was Ralph Ramkarran who led delegations to the High Commissioner, trudged the streets of London mobilizing Guyanese, and organized and sold tickets for numerous fund raising activities. He helped to build the UK Branch of the PPP, and conducted seminars and other educational programmes. All those things he did during his university student years.
That may be so Comrade Gilbakka AKA Bookman. Did he ever experience the hardship of working and paying for tuition in the cold of winter ?. If not then he may not have experienced what many common Guyanese men and women have experienced ?. Was Ralph ever detained or spent any time in Jail for his protest against the Burnham administration like what happened to several members of the PPP party?