Marriott project represents blatant theft

Dear Editor,
Thanks to the sterling work being undertaken by your newspaper as well as the meritorious work of APNU, the AFC, a clutch of analysts and regular letter writers, all Guyana can now see and believe that Government’s objective is to make the rich richer and leave the poor exactly where they were in 1992.
It is a plan that appeared after Dr. Jagan’s passing and gained momentum during the pre-Ramotar years when a highly oleaginous executive machine set about to build a formidable criminal enterprise root and branch. Like a massive hardwood tree it continues to grow and stifle all the honest, hardworking, deserving saplings in its way.
This well-oiled criminal machine hides behind grandiose infrastructural projects touted as needed national structures but designed and executed to fill the pockets of a few while the vast majority of people can only sit by and hope some crumbs fall their way.
The Marriott project is the most blatant of the lot but others using the same corrupt, selfish and criminal methodology are on the drawing board, or in the pipeline. They will succeed only if we, the Guyanese people, let them.
Trickle-down economics, as practised by this government, is an abomination. It is carefully
constructed to perpetuate an impoverished underclass and provide an endless stream of indigent, undereducated, marginalized citizens from which to draw recruits for our uniformed services and those destined to work all their lives below or at minimum wages.
Some will be programmed to involve themselves in crime while others will be forced into a marginal existence on the fringes of society, always in want, always in misery, always in despair and forever without hope. This is what the master plan holds for the vast majority of Guyanese going forward, once they remain in the country of their birth.
This is the government’s idea of trickle-down economics and it has to be turned on its head when next we are called on to vote at general elections.
We live in a land of plenty with enough for all and as Bill Clinton said recently: “Shared prosperity is better than trickle-down economics”
We must all vote for shared prosperity the next time we go to the polls and before there is nothing left to share.
F. Hamley Case