Opposition needs to play a constructive and meaningful role PDF Print E-mail
Written by PETER PERSAUD
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 20:54
PLEASE permit me space in your letters column to make the following observations:
(1) His Excellency President Donald Ramotar said that the opposition’s participation in the 2012 national budget preparation will only be at the consultation level. The President is absolutely correct since the country’s budgetary preparation is the responsibility of government and not the parliamentary opposition.
(2) David Granger behaves as though he is the President of Guyana. He is not. But he is aware that the PNC never won a free and fair election and the PNC-led APNU will suffer the same fate. It’s just a matter of time.
(3) The opposition, after devouring the speakership and deputy speakership of the House, spoke about working together with the government. This was nothing but a display of political rascality and hypocrisy, since they deliberately chose not to cooperate with his Excellency, the president where the speakership of the House was concerned, thus ignoring the Convention of Commonwealth parliamentary democracies.
The fact of the matter is how can these ‘twits’ be trusted, since they are all steeped in narrow political partisanship. Their talk now about “putting Guyana first” is therefore a deception and moreso, polluted air.
(4) My advice to the opposition is that if they intend to play a constructive and meaningful role in this new dispensation they must quickly do a course on ‘Leadership and Negotiation skills training’. The USAID or the UNDP will certainly be willing to assist.
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Written by PETER PERSAUD
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 20:54
PLEASE permit me space in your letters column to make the following observations:
(1) His Excellency President Donald Ramotar said that the opposition’s participation in the 2012 national budget preparation will only be at the consultation level. The President is absolutely correct since the country’s budgetary preparation is the responsibility of government and not the parliamentary opposition.
(2) David Granger behaves as though he is the President of Guyana. He is not. But he is aware that the PNC never won a free and fair election and the PNC-led APNU will suffer the same fate. It’s just a matter of time.
(3) The opposition, after devouring the speakership and deputy speakership of the House, spoke about working together with the government. This was nothing but a display of political rascality and hypocrisy, since they deliberately chose not to cooperate with his Excellency, the president where the speakership of the House was concerned, thus ignoring the Convention of Commonwealth parliamentary democracies.
The fact of the matter is how can these ‘twits’ be trusted, since they are all steeped in narrow political partisanship. Their talk now about “putting Guyana first” is therefore a deception and moreso, polluted air.
(4) My advice to the opposition is that if they intend to play a constructive and meaningful role in this new dispensation they must quickly do a course on ‘Leadership and Negotiation skills training’. The USAID or the UNDP will certainly be willing to assist.
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