Hammie proposes to ‘bring light’ in the same fashion his party brought light to Water Street during the 1960’s

 

(Eyewitness)Kaieteur News recently reported that “City Hall” threw its support behind the International Republican Institute (IRI) plan to export “democracy” to Guyana. But that this essentially means is that Hamilton Green, the one-time Forbes Burnham “strongman” defanged by Desmond Hoyte, is lining up behind A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) to get onto the gravy train.

Green, of course, has firsthand experience as to how the “democratisation” exercise was conducted back in the 1960s. He was very prominent in fomenting the riots that were necessary to persuade the legally elected government of the day to become “democratic”. That the present government is once again the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), should make it easier, in case Green’s incipient senility really kicks in. Green declared histrionically that the PPP/C’s objection to the IRI’s plan to destabilise it was “a diabolical plan to keep a portion of the population in darkness”. Green obviously is telling us that the IRI will bring “light” back to Guyana.

In the 1960s, Green and his comrades were funded by the IRI’s predecessors to burn down Water Street to bring that “light”. What now?