A word of wisdom to the electorate
DEAR EDITOR,
The strategy of the PPP in this election campaign seems very clear: to use race-based politics to divide the two main races and exploit Indo-Guyanese insecurity, to accuse David Granger of rigging elections and to portray Moses Nagamootoo as the betrayer of Dr. Jagan’s philosophy.
The first strategy is intriguing and is of great concern to the nation, because Guyana is a race and class stratified society, and with its two main races, the strategy seems intended to provoke certain instinctual fears and will influence how Indo- and Afro-Guyanese will vote onMay 11.
This type of character assassination is of course a negative strategy which has already shaped up to be a popular modality for the PPP and its supporters in the campaign. Filled with frustration, frozen with incompetence and wedged in the past, the PPP has turned Guyana into a battered nation with bands of poverty, high crime, massive corruption, bad governance and poor, sleazy, vindictive and dishonest leaders. They have not recognized that the racial thing is a red herring that has created trauma and rage throughout the country.
Jagdeo, Rohee and the PPP have lost their cool and are angry at those fighting against human oppression and denigration. It is a righteous fight stirred up by injustice, hypocrisy, venality, dishonesty, indecency and greed. But Guyanese are angry too at the subversion of justice.
In this election, the people should vent their anger at the outrageous corrupt practices, immorality, race-based and cuss-down politics. The false premise that wealth and all eminence are arrived at, not by hard work, but by crookedness, has taken root among the Freedom House gang.
Crookedness today in Guyana has taken the form of unjust enrichment, land grabbing, diversion of state resources into private hands and the awarding of contracts to friends and relatives for huge kick-backs in return. It is amazing how little it may take to bribe someone into ethical blindness and a dulled conscience!
And the corrupt are not generous with their ill-gotten gains; they do not share any with the poor. They are far more immoral, deceitful and insincere than anyone can ever imagine. The citizens must vote for change as an expression of their outrage and anger at the high level of corruption, nepotism, and grease hands, and the desecration of the institutions and their national patrimony.
For the past ten years, the PPP has shown total disregard for best practices, and has refused to establish the Procurement Commission or even attempt to curb corruption. It appears as though the cabal is addicted to corruption, not realizing that it affects the soul of the country and that it is cancerous and destroys the moral fabric of society.
This is the kind of country Guyana has become today under the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal. The ruling elite ride into the dens of ill-gotten wealth on the backs of the poor and the working class whom they think are a bunch of gullible and exploitable followers. A word of wisdom to the electorate is to let the PPP know that they must not take them for granted.
The consequences of these corrupt actions will, however, inevitably be borne by the taxpayers, perhaps for years to come. What is perhaps even more disturbing is the PPP regime’s reluctance to prosecute or discipline members of the cabinet and the party in general who were caught in corrupt practices or other illegal and vulgar acts.
But in this quick but bruising general election campaign, the people should not lose sight of the financial skullduggery which could ruin the economic future and fiscal survival of the country. All necessary precautions must now be taken by the opposition to reduce corruption and the reckless waste of the country’s resources and finances. Failure to do so will lead to the type of destruction to the economy and way of life that may take decades to recover. A word to the wise.
Asquith Rose
Chandra Deolall
Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks
The strategy of the PPP in this election campaign seems very clear: to use race-based politics to divide the two main races and exploit Indo-Guyanese insecurity, to accuse David Granger of rigging elections and to portray Moses Nagamootoo as the betrayer of Dr. Jagan’s philosophy.
The first strategy is intriguing and is of great concern to the nation, because Guyana is a race and class stratified society, and with its two main races, the strategy seems intended to provoke certain instinctual fears and will influence how Indo- and Afro-Guyanese will vote onMay 11.
This type of character assassination is of course a negative strategy which has already shaped up to be a popular modality for the PPP and its supporters in the campaign. Filled with frustration, frozen with incompetence and wedged in the past, the PPP has turned Guyana into a battered nation with bands of poverty, high crime, massive corruption, bad governance and poor, sleazy, vindictive and dishonest leaders. They have not recognized that the racial thing is a red herring that has created trauma and rage throughout the country.
Jagdeo, Rohee and the PPP have lost their cool and are angry at those fighting against human oppression and denigration. It is a righteous fight stirred up by injustice, hypocrisy, venality, dishonesty, indecency and greed. But Guyanese are angry too at the subversion of justice.
In this election, the people should vent their anger at the outrageous corrupt practices, immorality, race-based and cuss-down politics. The false premise that wealth and all eminence are arrived at, not by hard work, but by crookedness, has taken root among the Freedom House gang.
Crookedness today in Guyana has taken the form of unjust enrichment, land grabbing, diversion of state resources into private hands and the awarding of contracts to friends and relatives for huge kick-backs in return. It is amazing how little it may take to bribe someone into ethical blindness and a dulled conscience!
And the corrupt are not generous with their ill-gotten gains; they do not share any with the poor. They are far more immoral, deceitful and insincere than anyone can ever imagine. The citizens must vote for change as an expression of their outrage and anger at the high level of corruption, nepotism, and grease hands, and the desecration of the institutions and their national patrimony.
For the past ten years, the PPP has shown total disregard for best practices, and has refused to establish the Procurement Commission or even attempt to curb corruption. It appears as though the cabal is addicted to corruption, not realizing that it affects the soul of the country and that it is cancerous and destroys the moral fabric of society.
This is the kind of country Guyana has become today under the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal. The ruling elite ride into the dens of ill-gotten wealth on the backs of the poor and the working class whom they think are a bunch of gullible and exploitable followers. A word of wisdom to the electorate is to let the PPP know that they must not take them for granted.
The consequences of these corrupt actions will, however, inevitably be borne by the taxpayers, perhaps for years to come. What is perhaps even more disturbing is the PPP regime’s reluctance to prosecute or discipline members of the cabinet and the party in general who were caught in corrupt practices or other illegal and vulgar acts.
But in this quick but bruising general election campaign, the people should not lose sight of the financial skullduggery which could ruin the economic future and fiscal survival of the country. All necessary precautions must now be taken by the opposition to reduce corruption and the reckless waste of the country’s resources and finances. Failure to do so will lead to the type of destruction to the economy and way of life that may take decades to recover. A word to the wise.
Asquith Rose
Chandra Deolall
Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks