Cheddie never did what he said he would do in his interview. His ministers were stifled and they were lacking. Everything was decided upon at Freedom House by CBJ and JJ.
And every private business project had to land on the desk of CBJ-and they pilled up whilst he went on his world tours.
Every business deal and business man was scrutinized to determine whether they were crooks or had dealings with the PNC regime. Every indian unknown to the ACG where ever they were was considered devious. A sincere indian was a pro-PPP and anti-Negro(as every negro was percieved to be a PNC operative)
I know.
Discussions with him in Toronto was controlled by the ACG and personal meeting on business matters were met with a cold disappointment. He obviously never looked at ANY business proposals by any guyanese other than those known to him through the ACG.
AS for his ministers, the one with the Ministry of Agriculture and Information Minister were RUDE-very very rude.
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I think this is quite close to the truth. One of the reasons for Guyana having a dankey cart economy after 20 years of PPP rule.
TK.....in fact it is far from the truth !....In 1992 Cheddi restarted the process to rebuild Guyana economically and socially, a work he started way back in 1957. We saw the destruction by the PNC from 1964 to 1992...it was no easy task to rebuild. The first five years of the Cheddi Jagan administration showed that the PPP govt under Cheddi had started to turn things around so much so that the Carter center stated that from what they saw Guyana can become a model for third world development if the plans were executed accordingly.....
There are some who wanted Cheddi to do what Burnham did and after he refused he was suddenly the bad guy.
Churchill, I heard you now may be meeting with Granger supporters for dinner and things like that now. Another Super Rat?