In this regard, history will show that the Cubans were right. When you have two left wing parties in Guyana then later three left wing parties in Guyana fighting each other like dogs and cats then no one on the left wins.  No one on the left won when Che cuss out the Bolivian Communist party which led to the party withdrawing its members from his armed group, No one on the left won when Cord took on Bishop and no one on the left won when Kennedy fought Carter in the Democratic primary before the 1980 US Presidential election.

What new things are you teaching the people? The same old crap retooled in a different garb, that of the PNC.  

PNC is an existential threat to democracy and human rights in Guyana.

the Communist Party of Cuba felt otherwise and ordered Jagan to join with the PNC to build socialism.

The PPP could not merge with the PNC as it had spent years demonizing Burnham and the PNC along racist lines. So Jagan instead declared “critical support” for the PNC. The ideologues of the PPP disagreed with Jagan, and led by Ranji Chandisingh, defected to the PNC. The cream of the PPP leadership obeyed the Cuban Communist Party. Jagan was in a quandary. How could he could join with Burnham without been seen to betray his supporters and be deemed a traitor?

Why? 

A DUNCE like you will BEVER understand. Gal, stick to clapping Roti and making up Beds.

I run a business. Have an economics degree and will soon get ACCA. 

The PPP is a full functioning industrial strength anti democratic engine operating at full efficiency in Guyana. Hiring a drug lord to murder citizens is not about human rights. Robbing the coffers dry and becoming over night fat cats from sire to dam to siblings to extend kin is not democracy at work. It is nepotism in its most brutal anti democratic expression.

 What a lover of women you are...only when they are to be your serf or sex slave!

Malcolm Harripaul was afraid to say NO to Granger, his former boss..

What he is doing is what the others are waiting in line for..

The PNC cannot win an election in Guyana, so Malcolm is begging on behalf of the PNC to start a dialogue so they can take control of the voting machine.

Not going to happen.

Mr Harripaul is educating the people. My mamoo files away his letters. 

Harripaul’s letter on Dr Jagan was spot on

Posted By Staff Writer On March 14, 2011 @ 5:01 am In Letters | 

Dr. Jangh Bahadur Singh’s advice to Dr. Cheddi Jagan in early 1948

Dear Editor,

I first read Dr Cheddi Jagan’s, “ West on Trial,” when I was 14 years old and I was somewhat puzzled by Dr Jagan’s boast that he had put a shovel man named Fred Bowman to run against Dr Jangh Bahadur Singh in the 1953 elections and that Bowman had defeated Dr J B Singh. It was not until I read Dr Mohan Ragheer’s, “The Indelible Red Stain,” that I understood Dr Jagan’s motive.  In an interview with Dr Ragheer in 1950 for Queens College’s Lictor newspaper, Dr Jagan still felt slighted by his first Georgetown host in mid 1930’s for making him cut grass for the goats, his second host for making him sleep on the floor, and resentment for Capt Nobbs, the QC Principal for placing him in First Form. It looked like Dr Jagan was prone to hold grudges, even imaginary ones, and he might have had one against Dr J B Singh.

Dr J B Singh had in early 1948 imparted some advice to the two youngest Indian politicians, Dr Jagan and Jainarain Singh. As regarded the electoral prospects, Dr J B Singh had this to say, “The biggest danger now is for Indians to push too hard, before the Blacks can be conditioned to accept an Indian victory in any future election.

Anyone who can command the Indian vote when universal suffrage comes…anyone who gets the rural Indians to vote for him will win the next elections. It’s simple arithmetic. But you must get the Negro vote too, including their middle class; good politicians learn to put pragmatism over more intellectualisms.”

Dr J B Singh on race relations, “So go easy; we can bring the Negroes to our side if we act smart..we have four maybe five years to bring them to our side; to do that we have to work smart, have the right platform to grab both Indians and Blacks so that they don’t fight one another, there’s enough in this land for everyone; let’s tell them that, and show them that; show them that we can be ourselves, keep our cultures, yet work and grow together, just as we play cricket together, compete, win and lose and yet have a drink afterwards.”

Dr J B Singh on courting the masses only, “True, the masses will make you win. But they won’t make you govern, not if you want to run a successful and prosperous country in which they too can have a fair chance to reach for the top.

You need the educated, the men and women with brains and money, thinkers, planners, professionals, men of business…This country is too small to afford to lose even one good brain. So we need all talent on our side. We have to choose our language and ideology accordingly in order to get all races on our side; we must get the Negroes, at least half of them.”

Dr J B Singh had some caustic words for Dr Jagan, “I know you left our Association in a huff, but that is your weakness, not the Association’s; the Association is people, many with conflicting views, all legitimate; that’s democracy. It is possible to influence views and direction but you wished to do that by diktat, not reason and discourse; you wanted to manoeuvre a bulldozer as if it is a motorcycle; you wished us to accept overnight your blind belief that Communism answers all questions, and that alignment with Stalin who gets his way by murdering his opponents and dissenters will be superior to dealing democratically with the world. How naïve you are; no wonder thinking people feel you are a mere pawn in somebody else’s chess game!”

Dr J B Singh was not done yet,” You’re are fond of using words like ‘imperialism’ ‘reactionary’, ‘struggle’, ‘militant’, ‘dialectic’ and so on , as if you invented them and the rest of us are ignorant. Think of them closely. Life is a series of compromises and adjustments that can go in any direction; so is politics…If we rush to overthrow and radicalize – to use Communist rhetoric- we will win quick in the short term with communist promises of everything for free but that would be a disaster, because we don’t have the money to do that, not unless your superiors in Moscow pay you big to give them a footing here. But you must know that the Brits and Yanks will not tolerate a Communist state here.”

I guess Dr Jagan did get his revenge in 1953 when the  shovel man defeated the Indian doyen of British Guiana politics but history had proven that Dr J B Singh was absolutely correct and that Dr Cheddi Jagan was dead wrong in his communist mantras and at what devastating consequences for Guyana even seventy five years later.

Malcolm Harripaul

the ppp was and is all about power not the intrest of the guyanese people the ppp never support RODNEY when he try to bring down the pnc jagan report chicken ROHAN when he was trying to overtrow the pnc the ppp never support any group that try to overtrow the pnc including the CANADIAN guyanese that was charge and jail in the USA 

Before Dr Cheddi Jagan entered politics, Dr JB Singh was the pre-eminent champion of East Indian rights in British Guiana.

He represented the East Indian community in the legislature for decades and served as a medical doctor to Indian immigrants, i.e., our grandparents and great grandparents.

While Dr JB Singh looked after his own people, however, he was not a racist. He wanted good relations with Afro-Guianese on the basis of mutual respect.

In the name of fair play, justice and gratitude, we must give Dr Singh his due recognition.

Whatever happened between him and Dr Jagan should not diminish the sterling contribution Dr Singh made to our ancestors' advancement.

did he teach the present day ppp indians how to thief or his he turning in his grave

Thank you for sharing. I did not know. I thought East Indian political history stared and ended with Dr Jagan/PPP. 

“I know you left our Association in a huff, but that is your weakness, not the Association’s; the Association is people, many with conflicting views, all legitimate; that’s democracy. It is possible to influence views and direction but you wished to do that by diktat, not reason and discourse; you wanted to manoeuvre a bulldozer as if it is a motorcycle; you wished us to accept overnight your blind belief that Communism answers all questions, and that alignment with Stalin who gets his way by murdering his opponents and dissenters will be superior to dealing democratically with the world. How naïve you are; no wonder thinking people feel you are a mere pawn in somebody else’s chess game!”

Hamilton Green was against free and fair elections in 1992

Posted By Staff Writer On October 23, 2013 @ 5:03 am In Letters | 

HARRIPAUL: "The “PPP intellectuals” who usually gathered outside Freedom House on Saturday mornings whispered that Green would split the PNC and give PPP victory in Georgetown in the 1994 local government elections. "

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Mr Harripaul is indeed a great man. 

Mr Harripaul: "That Jagan and Green were peas of the same pod. Mr Hoyte was different. He was committed to restoring democracy even if it meant him losing power. This is a man young people must look to as a role model and try to emulate."

Harripaul: "But the PPP soon rescued him, helped him set up his Good and Green Party, and released his associates Rabbi Washington and Errol Butcher who were jailed by Hoyte. "

Wow imagine the damage the PPP did to security in Guyana.

Mr/Ms Kwame McKoy was a House of Israel ruffian also. Mr Nascimento rigged the election. 

This seems to be a naked attack on Jagan.

Jagan is an ICON.

He is a National Hero.

Malcolm and company are seeking to be RELEVANT

Mr Vish M please read and have an education. The truth shall ye free. 

Mr Hoyte was different. He was committed to restoring democracy even if it meant him losing power. This is a man young people must look to as a role model and try to emulate.

Well I learned some thing new here today from Malcolm.  Dr.Jagan literally selected a man from the trenches to shovel out Jang Bahadur Singh.

Actually a few years later Freddy Bowman quit the PPP party in support of Edward B Beharry.

Politicians like Dr Jagan, Mr Jagdeo and Mr Ramotar did very well when the people are not educated.

PPP exploits racial fears to enbloc Indo Guyanese votes

Dear Editor,

I read Ms Lurlene Nestor’s letter, “KhemrajRamjattan’s Bath settlement call was ill advised,” (KN 01-22-11) in which she dealt with Mr Ramjattan’s request to Indo Guyanese not to fear Afro Guyanese. I write this letter not to defend Khemraj, nor to rebut Ms Nestor, but rather to express my own views on the question of racial fears, and indeed the fear of the all Guyanese people.

There is the general fear by all Guyanese of the criminals, the fear of the Government by all to criticize the regime, the fear of the narco death squads by Afro Guyanese, and the fear of politically inspired violence against Indians by some Afro Guyanese. I shall not go back into the social unrest of the 1960’s. I shall start with the violence against Indo Guyanese in the aftermath of the 1997 elections.

After the PNC lost the 1997 elections it embarked on street protests which degenerated into thuggery against Indo Guyanese on several occasions in 1998 and 1999. Politically inspired kick down the door bandits soon surfaced and in the two years hundreds of attacks against Indo Guyanese were carried out that left scores of businessmen dead.

The perpetuators were identified as Afro Guyanese. The PPP regime, led by Janet Jagan, Moses Nagamootoo, Clement Rohee, Donald Ramotar, Ralph Ramkarran, and Gail Texeira, went into denial mode. They told various audiences in New York that it was not true that Indians were being brutalized and that the businessmen who were killed were drug lords.
The PPP did absolutely nothing to restore law and order. It refused to invite the UN to send peace keeping troops. However at the 2001 elections the same PPP at bottom house meetings and mandirs told the Indians that if they did not vote PPP “ the black man them gun get back power and them gun rob and rape you all.”

The Indo Guyanese voted enbloc in 2001 to retain the PPP in government.  Again violence was unleashed on the hapless PPP supporters. Again the PPP refused to call in UN troops. The 2002 jail break led to war being waged on Indo Guyanese especially on the East Coast of Demerara. Yet the PPP did nothing to protect its supporters and restore law and order.
The PPP did nothing because the regime itself was not threatened and it could afford the Indian casualties so long as it remained in office. By the end of 2002 the police and army came under attack. The PPP now felt threatened and had to take action to protect itself.

The lawful course of action for the PPP was to ask for UN peace keeping troops. However it meant the PPP would have had to relinquish some control of the state and that it was not prepared to do. The regime instead entered into an unholy alliance with the narco lords who then waged war on the Afro Guyanese gunmen encamped in Buxton.
By the time the threat to the government had passed nearly two hundred young Afro Guyanese lay dead. After all the mayhem the PPP has still not taken any lawful and constitutional action to address the concerns of both communities.

Instead, with no threat of insurrection, and an effete opposition, the Jagdeo regime ensconced itself in absolute power. The narco squads were used to assassinate Afro activist Ronald Waddell and Indo Minister Sash Sawh who had held up the major drug lord concessions in the hinterland.
These murders drove fear into the hearts of labour, political, and social activists. The regime also used the treason charge on two groups of Afro Guyanese to imprison them, further invoking fear in citizens. But the fear does not stop there.

Massacres were conducted at Lusignan, Bartica, and Lindo Creek. Only the political elite knows the identity of the murderers. The crime pandemic just got larger and larger under the Jagdeo dictatorship. Today all the ethnic groups are being affected by common gun toting criminals with murders and robberies being the order of the day. Guyana is one big camp of fear at all levels.

Yet the Jagdeo/PPP government has done nothing to stop the crimes and allay the fears. In fact the regime has refused British aid to the Police Force and it has denied the US DEA permission to operate in Guyana.
Compare the PPP’s actions with those of other Caribbean countries which have accepted police aid from the British, Canadians, and Americans. What is the motive of the Jagdeo/PPP government in refusing aid to our Police Force? Who benefits from the rampant crime? Who benefits from a fearful society? Who are building mansions and amassing fortunes? Certainly not the sugar workers, nor the bauxite workers, nor the poor civil servants, nor the Amerindians.
But come election time the very PPP will once again give Indo Guyanese voters the ultimatium: “either yuh vote PPP or the black man gun get back power and rob and rape you all.”

The exploitation of Indo Guyanese fears by the PPP will have to be addressed at the next elections by all opposition parties. Indians will have to be educated about how the PPP has been exacerbating their fears. They have to be told that they must not let fear of Afro Guyanese cause them to vote PPP because the PPP is really the cause and beneficiary of such fears.
Allow me the opportunity to say to the current PPP executive, “ I told you so.” If the PPP had accepted and implemented the national security plan that I designed in 1990 at Dr Jagan’s request then Guyana would have been spared all the social unrest and wanton political killings. I had proposed to replace the Police Commissioner with Mr Paul Slowe, seek UN and British help in rebuilding the Police Force, expand the People’s Militia into every district, amend the law to enable the Militia to do policing duties, from a special anti terrorist squad to deal with armed bandits, give the US DEA full scope to operate in Guyana, enact a Freedom of Information Bill to help fight corruption.

My plan was given to Dr Jagan and Mr Clinton Collymore who for years was the PPP’s shadow Minister of Defence and Home Affairs in Parliament. I am aware that Messrs Rohan Singh, ex GDF Captain Ronald Sami, and ex GPM captain Neville Sami also read the plan. All were in high praise of my proposals. However the capable and competent Clinton Collymore was side lined by Ms Janet Jagan who was vehement in keeping the police status quo, especially the Commissioner. Only she, Laurie Lewis, and God know why she wanted it that way.

It was under Mr Lewis’s reign over the Police Force that the violence in the latter 90’s and early 2000’s unfolded.

Malcolm Harripaul

India’s space programme is an investment in the future

Dear Editor,

I write in response to my good friend Freddie Kissoon’s Sunday column, “Some world leaders are heartless,” (KN 11-10-13), in which he sought to show that the leaders of India were heartless because they were spending money on a mission to Mars instead of spending it to alleviate poverty.
He quoted a BBC journalist as asking, “But when a country is home to millions of people in extreme poverty, why do they feel the need to explore other worlds.”  Freddie himself asks, “ Why does India want to spend that humongous amount on space exploration when such knowledge can be obtained from American, Russian and European research?”
Freddie loves to write about “ Freudian slips” and I am wondering if he has unwittingly betrayed an inferiority complex by proposing that India should rely on the White people who not so long ago had conquered, colonized, enslaved, and decimated the peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Surely Freddie is not proposing a new form of colonisation of India.

Freddie , like me and the billion plus Indians including the millions of impoverished , should take pride in the achievements of Indian science and technology. For a lesson in national pride I recommend Freddie look at the short film, “Children of the pyre,” which documents the lives of five boys aged nine to 15 years and who make a living cremating bodies in India.
They are considered the untouchables of the untouchables. They do not attend school but they are very street educated as evidenced by their views of politicians as rogues and scamps, and of the “high caste” as fools because in death “it is we who have to handle them.” Those boys do have respect for their country, national flag and anthem and great pride in India’s space programme and that was before the Mars mission launch.
Perhaps Freddie should have seen the faces of the poor children all over India as they looked skywards at the time of the launch to the see the national joy and pride it brought them.

I know that $75M is a “humongous amount” to the poor. It can indeed buy pizza for the millions of poor kids for a few days. But that $75M is an investment in the future of those kids. Think how many millions of poor children will be inspired to attend school and aspire to be scientists, engineers, and technologists.

And what about the millions of current scientists and students, doesn’t the Indian government have an obligation to their needs for development, advancement, and fulfillment too. It would be ideal to have equal development of all the peoples simultaneously but unfortunately the world does not work like that.

Development has and will always be unequal so governments will spend on poverty reduction and “ the need to explore other worlds.” In fact the Indian Mars mission is an investment in poverty alleviation.
Apart from inspiring millions of kids to get an education, the Indian space programme is an economic investment. In the next 10 years the space exploration industry will be at $350 Billion.

Indian space research costs about one-tenth that of the USA. India’s Mars mission cost $75M as compared to the USA’s next mission that will cost $675M. It means that India can position itself to capture a fair share of the industry by offering less costly services.
It can translate as much as $100 Billion in earnings for India. And that Freddie is one of the main reasons for the Indian Mars probe. Spend $75M today and earn $100 Billion in the next couple of decades. Of course India has to catch up USA, Europe, Russia, and China in space in order to be able to defend itself. That is a harsh reality, too, Freddie.

And as for depending on the White folks for knowledge Freddie might want to find out how many Indian scientists work at the USA’s NASA. They comprise 36 per cent of the staff and in fact the USA’s next Mars mission was designed by Indians. And this just 65 years after white colonialism! I am proud to be of Indian origin and so should you Freddie.
Malcolm Harripaul

Jagan's activities in Guyana were criminal. There needsto be a truth commission on how this scoundrel collaborated with Burnham to destroy Guyana.

ANd the PPP are what????? a fake threat with their grasping for autocratic power and denial of local elections?

Correct is right and you are correct here Baseman.

Shabash!

More horse sh!t from another PNC kind who does not understand the political reality because he is blindly in love with an OLD OLD man, Granja.