The Guyanese people must demand President Jagdeo’s resignation now!
September 4, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
I begin this column with two observations. First, the Police Commissioner in Guyana’s social structure is among the first top four most powerful persons in the country. So powerful is the Police Commissioner that his authority goes way beyond any Cabinet Minister except the President. Secondly, the US Embassy in Guyana is the conduit for the American Government.
Guyana has a close working relation with the US Government, both directly and indirectly. The indirect connection is important because the US can stop every cent the IDB and World Bank facilitate Guyana with due to its voting influence in those institutions. It would be utterly stupid for the leaders of a poor country like Guyana (Guyana that the Jamaican PM says goes begging all the time) that depends for aid from the US to be unnecessarily contemptuous of America.
Before I discuss the devastating criticism the most strategically placed personnel in the US Embassy made against President Jagdeo, Commissioner Greene and others in the WikiLeaks releases, a caveat is in order. The named persons in those cables will deny what they said to the US Embassy officials. It has already begun with Gail Teixeira. She has denied what she is reported to have said. It is the same story since the crime wave began. No matter how powerful the evidence, they will deny their involvement.
The case of Leslie Ramsammy tells it all. Witness after witness described Ramsammy’s relationship with Roger Khan. Purchase of a laptop with a letter purportedly signed by Ramsammy came to light, but Ramsammy said he was not involved. The letter was not his.
We come to the WikiLeaks cables. Remember they will deny it but here we go anyway. The US Embassy and the British and Canadian High Commissions made it incandescently clear to Mr. Jagdeo that, according to their findings, Greene was involved with narco-traffickers.
All three missions advised Mr. Jagdeo not to appoint him as Commissioner. All three missions insisted that Guyana would lose security aid if he, President Jagdeo did so. But Jagdeo went ahead. The cables said as a consequence, US withheld vital security aid including technology to track the movement of illegal arms. Mr. Jagdeo’s own Home Affairs Minister told the US Embassy she did not support Greene’s elevation. As you read on, the Embassy staff made the most unflattering comments about Mr. Jagdeo on his “Greene inflexibility”.
The Embassy even concluded that Jagdeo was playing with them because at one time he said that if Greene’s visa was revoked, then it would provide an opportunity to deny the promotion. The visa revocation proceeded, but Greene was still confirmed as Police Commissioner. The cables were pellucid that Mr. Jagdeo wanted Greene. The question to be asked and must be asked is why. Any sane mind reading the Embassy’s frustration with Mr. Jagdeo will ponder on why Greene was so important to Jagdeo and the curiosity will be aroused as to if Greene has some influence on Jagdeo.
At this stage, readers need to know two important contents of the cables. One is that Teixeira suggested in her conversations with the Embassy that there may be a Jagdeo- Roger Khan link. Secondly, Greene conveyed his anger and frustration to the Embassy on the visa revocation telling them that he thought it was for “troubling the girls” and not narco-involvement. The Government must investigate what is meant by “troubling the girls.” Now surely that cannot mean just “constantly making a pass at them.”
This writer has continuously classified the Government as an elected dictatorship. The US Embassy cables refer to Guyana as “democratically-sponsored autocracy.” Any school boy who has read a book on politics would tell you that autocracy means dictatorship. The cables also contain some opinions from Embassy seniors on Mr. Jagdeo. We are told that he has no regard for public and opposition opinion. Now brace yourself for this one – that Mr. Jagdeo thinks he alone has the answers for everything about Guyana.
Guyana was bound to end up as a disaster under Mr. Jagdeo. Now if Mr. Jagdeo feels this way about himself, and he has the intellectual capacity to think and innovate then nothing is wrong about his glowing feelings about himself. But intellectually, Mr. Jagdeo is very poor, and in my opinion is devoid of leadership qualities. He is perhaps the least learned leader the British West Indies gave us. Lacking transformational qualities and intellectual depth, and thinking that he has these qualities, disaster was bound to happen. Look at GPL and GuySuCo and you see that surely, Mr. Jagdeo has been a total failure.
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September 4, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
I begin this column with two observations. First, the Police Commissioner in Guyana’s social structure is among the first top four most powerful persons in the country. So powerful is the Police Commissioner that his authority goes way beyond any Cabinet Minister except the President. Secondly, the US Embassy in Guyana is the conduit for the American Government.
Guyana has a close working relation with the US Government, both directly and indirectly. The indirect connection is important because the US can stop every cent the IDB and World Bank facilitate Guyana with due to its voting influence in those institutions. It would be utterly stupid for the leaders of a poor country like Guyana (Guyana that the Jamaican PM says goes begging all the time) that depends for aid from the US to be unnecessarily contemptuous of America.
Before I discuss the devastating criticism the most strategically placed personnel in the US Embassy made against President Jagdeo, Commissioner Greene and others in the WikiLeaks releases, a caveat is in order. The named persons in those cables will deny what they said to the US Embassy officials. It has already begun with Gail Teixeira. She has denied what she is reported to have said. It is the same story since the crime wave began. No matter how powerful the evidence, they will deny their involvement.
The case of Leslie Ramsammy tells it all. Witness after witness described Ramsammy’s relationship with Roger Khan. Purchase of a laptop with a letter purportedly signed by Ramsammy came to light, but Ramsammy said he was not involved. The letter was not his.
We come to the WikiLeaks cables. Remember they will deny it but here we go anyway. The US Embassy and the British and Canadian High Commissions made it incandescently clear to Mr. Jagdeo that, according to their findings, Greene was involved with narco-traffickers.
All three missions advised Mr. Jagdeo not to appoint him as Commissioner. All three missions insisted that Guyana would lose security aid if he, President Jagdeo did so. But Jagdeo went ahead. The cables said as a consequence, US withheld vital security aid including technology to track the movement of illegal arms. Mr. Jagdeo’s own Home Affairs Minister told the US Embassy she did not support Greene’s elevation. As you read on, the Embassy staff made the most unflattering comments about Mr. Jagdeo on his “Greene inflexibility”.
The Embassy even concluded that Jagdeo was playing with them because at one time he said that if Greene’s visa was revoked, then it would provide an opportunity to deny the promotion. The visa revocation proceeded, but Greene was still confirmed as Police Commissioner. The cables were pellucid that Mr. Jagdeo wanted Greene. The question to be asked and must be asked is why. Any sane mind reading the Embassy’s frustration with Mr. Jagdeo will ponder on why Greene was so important to Jagdeo and the curiosity will be aroused as to if Greene has some influence on Jagdeo.
At this stage, readers need to know two important contents of the cables. One is that Teixeira suggested in her conversations with the Embassy that there may be a Jagdeo- Roger Khan link. Secondly, Greene conveyed his anger and frustration to the Embassy on the visa revocation telling them that he thought it was for “troubling the girls” and not narco-involvement. The Government must investigate what is meant by “troubling the girls.” Now surely that cannot mean just “constantly making a pass at them.”
This writer has continuously classified the Government as an elected dictatorship. The US Embassy cables refer to Guyana as “democratically-sponsored autocracy.” Any school boy who has read a book on politics would tell you that autocracy means dictatorship. The cables also contain some opinions from Embassy seniors on Mr. Jagdeo. We are told that he has no regard for public and opposition opinion. Now brace yourself for this one – that Mr. Jagdeo thinks he alone has the answers for everything about Guyana.
Guyana was bound to end up as a disaster under Mr. Jagdeo. Now if Mr. Jagdeo feels this way about himself, and he has the intellectual capacity to think and innovate then nothing is wrong about his glowing feelings about himself. But intellectually, Mr. Jagdeo is very poor, and in my opinion is devoid of leadership qualities. He is perhaps the least learned leader the British West Indies gave us. Lacking transformational qualities and intellectual depth, and thinking that he has these qualities, disaster was bound to happen. Look at GPL and GuySuCo and you see that surely, Mr. Jagdeo has been a total failure.
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