Trump-up rape charge against Toshoa and firing of Magistrate are vindictive
Dear Editor,
Very nearly everything that is done in this country from the awarding of government contracts down to what should be the most basic of services to the citizens, is done with the aim of getting a bribe thus enriching those in the regime who are supposed to serve the people.
From ministers down to the ordinary clerks are corrupt. The people must pay something other than the registered fees or charges in order to get services that are supposed to be free.
This type of bribery is common in all government departments, from the office of the President to the ministries and state agencies.
Of course, at the ministerial level, the business conglomerates are generally asked to pay up front under the alias of Party Financiers and their demands are met when contracts are awarded to them, or their contacts are rewarded with lucrative State jobs, or for them to be allowed to pay lower or no taxes or be granted free electricity to operate their business.
These self-proclaimed “untouchables” have broken the law several times but none has been arrested or prosecuted because of the compromised Police Force. We should all remember that the head of the GRA employed his children and close relatives and claim that he did nothing wrong because there is no law stating he should not have done what he did.
If the PPP regime wants to end nepotism and allow fairness and justice to prevail, that loophole in employment practices would have to be plugged, but we are confident that the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime will do nothing because they have no morals or integrity.
The PPP—Police Force are always worried about the bandits and the gangs in the streets, but care nothing about those who protect and serve the gangsters.
In Guyana, business conglomerates have and continue to thwart justice and the intent of the law because they are politically connected to the PPP regime either through party affiliation or bribes. The PPP cabal’s rich friends and relatives have gained millions of dollars to the detriment of the public by skirting the law.
But it is at the highest level of government that the biggest and most frequent abuses of justice and corruption are occurring.
This particular PPP cabal believes that upon taking office, the country’s resources belong to them and they can do whatever they want it, and the people and justice are damned.
The year 2014 saw the continuing woes and scandals of the PPP regime played out in public.
They began toward the end of July when the Minister of Finance spent $4.5 billion without the approval of Parliament and the Minister of Education’s vulgar and cuss-down behaviour on the American Ambassador at his residence.
This was followed by threats of censure against the Minister of Finance and the President’s prorogue of Parliament to avoid such embarrassment.
Then came the “tape gate” fiasco by the Attorney General that was vulgar, abusive, repulsive and unbecoming of the office of the Chief Legal Officer. Internet bloggers had a field day, dubbing the incident the “Anil-gate Scandal” that has embarrassed the country.
By the end of last year, the nation was salivating as another firestorm rocked the PPP regime. A report surfaced revealing that a Presidential Guard slapped an Amerindian citizen for asking the Mr. Ramotar about his and Jagdeo’s track record.
A few weeks later, the president was caught on tape being abusive to another Amerindian citizen who asked a similar question. It is easy for the do-nothing and abusive president to attack the PNC record but it is very difficult for him to defend both his and Jagdeo’s pathetic track record.
The PPP cabal is so spiteful that they have filed trump-up rape charges against the Amerindian Village Chief, Mark Goerge of Moco Moco because he refused to allow the President to visit his community on very short notice.
And the wicked PPP regime has fired Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond because she found the son of Prime Minister Sam Hinds guilty of assault and was about to sentence him to prison on the same day she was fired. Go figure! Is Guyana not a cowboy country run by a cake shop management?
So where do these scandals leave the PPP in this election year? Interestingly, the scandals have negatively impacted the PPP regime to the point that their own supporters are abandoning the party and will vote for the AFC/APNU Pro-Democracy Alliance on May 11.
Dr. Asquith Rose, Chandra Deolall Esq, Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks
Very nearly everything that is done in this country from the awarding of government contracts down to what should be the most basic of services to the citizens, is done with the aim of getting a bribe thus enriching those in the regime who are supposed to serve the people.
From ministers down to the ordinary clerks are corrupt. The people must pay something other than the registered fees or charges in order to get services that are supposed to be free.
This type of bribery is common in all government departments, from the office of the President to the ministries and state agencies.
Of course, at the ministerial level, the business conglomerates are generally asked to pay up front under the alias of Party Financiers and their demands are met when contracts are awarded to them, or their contacts are rewarded with lucrative State jobs, or for them to be allowed to pay lower or no taxes or be granted free electricity to operate their business.
These self-proclaimed “untouchables” have broken the law several times but none has been arrested or prosecuted because of the compromised Police Force. We should all remember that the head of the GRA employed his children and close relatives and claim that he did nothing wrong because there is no law stating he should not have done what he did.
If the PPP regime wants to end nepotism and allow fairness and justice to prevail, that loophole in employment practices would have to be plugged, but we are confident that the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime will do nothing because they have no morals or integrity.
The PPP—Police Force are always worried about the bandits and the gangs in the streets, but care nothing about those who protect and serve the gangsters.
In Guyana, business conglomerates have and continue to thwart justice and the intent of the law because they are politically connected to the PPP regime either through party affiliation or bribes. The PPP cabal’s rich friends and relatives have gained millions of dollars to the detriment of the public by skirting the law.
But it is at the highest level of government that the biggest and most frequent abuses of justice and corruption are occurring.
This particular PPP cabal believes that upon taking office, the country’s resources belong to them and they can do whatever they want it, and the people and justice are damned.
The year 2014 saw the continuing woes and scandals of the PPP regime played out in public.
They began toward the end of July when the Minister of Finance spent $4.5 billion without the approval of Parliament and the Minister of Education’s vulgar and cuss-down behaviour on the American Ambassador at his residence.
This was followed by threats of censure against the Minister of Finance and the President’s prorogue of Parliament to avoid such embarrassment.
Then came the “tape gate” fiasco by the Attorney General that was vulgar, abusive, repulsive and unbecoming of the office of the Chief Legal Officer. Internet bloggers had a field day, dubbing the incident the “Anil-gate Scandal” that has embarrassed the country.
By the end of last year, the nation was salivating as another firestorm rocked the PPP regime. A report surfaced revealing that a Presidential Guard slapped an Amerindian citizen for asking the Mr. Ramotar about his and Jagdeo’s track record.
A few weeks later, the president was caught on tape being abusive to another Amerindian citizen who asked a similar question. It is easy for the do-nothing and abusive president to attack the PNC record but it is very difficult for him to defend both his and Jagdeo’s pathetic track record.
The PPP cabal is so spiteful that they have filed trump-up rape charges against the Amerindian Village Chief, Mark Goerge of Moco Moco because he refused to allow the President to visit his community on very short notice.
And the wicked PPP regime has fired Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond because she found the son of Prime Minister Sam Hinds guilty of assault and was about to sentence him to prison on the same day she was fired. Go figure! Is Guyana not a cowboy country run by a cake shop management?
So where do these scandals leave the PPP in this election year? Interestingly, the scandals have negatively impacted the PPP regime to the point that their own supporters are abandoning the party and will vote for the AFC/APNU Pro-Democracy Alliance on May 11.
Dr. Asquith Rose, Chandra Deolall Esq, Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks
