The PPP, the mother of Guyana’s poverty
October 14, 2011 | By KNews Letters
Dear Editor,
I refer to a well written feature written by one Parvati Persaud Edwards in the Chronicle. The style and form of writing caught my eyes and I want to congratulate the writer for her talent, that Guyana needs to nurture and cultivate. What I however do not subscribe to is the content and half truths in the article.
One Emmanuel Cummings describes the PPP as the Father and Mother of all political parties in Guyana?
What utter rubbish? If the PNC was never alive the PPP would have been history ages ago. If one is to read Balram Singh Rai’s book, ideologically, very few Indo-Guyanese subscribe to Marxism/Communism but as a result of ethnic insecurities they were stuck to the PPP. That is why the PPP mantra “a vote against the PPP is a vote for the PNC” was so potent.
The PNC could never have and never win a free and fair elections in Guyana as a result of these ethnic insecurities, there were numerically short of the 50 per cent.
Indo-Guyanese stood with the PPP for the last 19 years even though their bellies were burning, their children worst off, their dignity were vanquished, all because they did not want the “Burnham party back in power”
This year 2011, is the first time that the PNC is so irrelevant to these elections and the Indo-Guyanese have a real alternative to the PPP in the form of the AFC, this is creating the conditions for more Indo-Guyanese vote on issues rather than race.
If one is to look at the poverty statistics, under the PPP, we are moving away from the MDG goal of halving the 1990 poverty level by 2015. If the PPP is elected to office and based on the current performance of the economy, Guyana poverty rate will hit approx 41% by 2015, moving away from the goal of cutting the poverty level to 21.6% by 2015. Guyana under the PPP has already moved away from its intended goal agreed with the United Nation in 1990.
What is the use of economic growth when the people who should really be benefiting from this economic growth are excluded from the wealth created by the PPP? All Team Ramotar has been doing is to share this new found wealth to their “carrion crow” business partners and their political handlers, leaving the scraps for the poor thus contributing to and increase in the poverty levels since 1999 and this situation will only get worst.
So wake up Mr. Cummings, the PPP is the Father and Mother of Guyana’s misery and poverty, thank you!
Suraj Chowtie
October 14, 2011 | By KNews Letters
Dear Editor,
I refer to a well written feature written by one Parvati Persaud Edwards in the Chronicle. The style and form of writing caught my eyes and I want to congratulate the writer for her talent, that Guyana needs to nurture and cultivate. What I however do not subscribe to is the content and half truths in the article.
One Emmanuel Cummings describes the PPP as the Father and Mother of all political parties in Guyana?
What utter rubbish? If the PNC was never alive the PPP would have been history ages ago. If one is to read Balram Singh Rai’s book, ideologically, very few Indo-Guyanese subscribe to Marxism/Communism but as a result of ethnic insecurities they were stuck to the PPP. That is why the PPP mantra “a vote against the PPP is a vote for the PNC” was so potent.
The PNC could never have and never win a free and fair elections in Guyana as a result of these ethnic insecurities, there were numerically short of the 50 per cent.
Indo-Guyanese stood with the PPP for the last 19 years even though their bellies were burning, their children worst off, their dignity were vanquished, all because they did not want the “Burnham party back in power”
This year 2011, is the first time that the PNC is so irrelevant to these elections and the Indo-Guyanese have a real alternative to the PPP in the form of the AFC, this is creating the conditions for more Indo-Guyanese vote on issues rather than race.
If one is to look at the poverty statistics, under the PPP, we are moving away from the MDG goal of halving the 1990 poverty level by 2015. If the PPP is elected to office and based on the current performance of the economy, Guyana poverty rate will hit approx 41% by 2015, moving away from the goal of cutting the poverty level to 21.6% by 2015. Guyana under the PPP has already moved away from its intended goal agreed with the United Nation in 1990.
What is the use of economic growth when the people who should really be benefiting from this economic growth are excluded from the wealth created by the PPP? All Team Ramotar has been doing is to share this new found wealth to their “carrion crow” business partners and their political handlers, leaving the scraps for the poor thus contributing to and increase in the poverty levels since 1999 and this situation will only get worst.
So wake up Mr. Cummings, the PPP is the Father and Mother of Guyana’s misery and poverty, thank you!
Suraj Chowtie
- Nothing but a pack of "you what know?" Jeering the PPP and concocting stuffs to make the gov't look bad will result in further isolation of a small party that is on its way down the little hill it climbed.