Jagdeo the crook

Jagdeo is History, try again.

he still is a crook who wants to be back in power

Will history judge Mr. Jagdeo, as a crook?

Dear Editor,
Our first own dictator of Guyana, Mr. L.F.S. Burnham, dutifully followed the script that was almost universally embraced by tyrants in their grab for total power. In then Guyana , not only were local opponents perceived as “Enemies of the State’ pulverized, but so were even friends and former colleagues whose loyalties were now deemed questionable.
This brilliant lawyer and orator trampled upon human rights and controlled the judiciary, media, education, police, army, civil service jobs and promotion etc. In fact he was the arbiter of life or death for many.
This deified person changed the constitution to be the chosen ‘President for Life,’ and as a legal safeguard made himself, ‘The Comrade Leader,’ immune from any prosecution, should his government fall. He was the law and above the law, and decided which and how the laws were to be interpreted and applied.
The President Burnham and his PNC New Nation presided over a dying nation. Yet the PNC to its eternal shame has never apologized to this nation for this destruction of so many lives. Guyanese have not forgiven the PNC for allowing one man and his faithful to subjugate this nation into total tyranny.
What Mr. Burnham failed to do, as other dictators did, was to accumulate sizeable foreign assets or stash cash in overseas accounts. (The news in Guyana was that, according to Ebony Magazine, he was the third richest ‘black man’ in the world. I tried to find this article, but never found it. So far there is no evidence after Burnham’s death that he and his family accumulated wealth anywhere.
His widow, Ms. Viola Burnham, had obtained a few acres of state land on short leases that expired in 1992. The land was used to raise buffaloes which Ms. Burnham sold off over the years to earn a living. Their children held ordinary state jobs even when Mr. Burnham was alive.
They too like so many ordinary Guyanese migrated and struggled to educate themselves, worked at regular jobs and lived in very ordinary circumstances.
Mr. Burnham’s failure to accumulate wealth seems rather uncharacteristic for one so brilliant and who enjoyed the good life – according to his love of Western/European lifestyles and tastes. This failure was because the economy totally tumbled with no foreign exchange being available to purchase basic necessities at home. There were reports of gold being shipped in diplomatic bags.
But these would never have large enough to support any affluent lifestyle overseas. The people of Linden like others in the country rebelled.
The country needed a statesman, the PPP in its wisdom offered Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo and must likewise take the credit or blame for his actions.
Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo of the PPP exceeded the worst excesses of Mr. L.F.S. Burnham of the PNC. This resident dictator, generously armed with the constitutional and legal tools created by his idol (Mr. Burnham) which his mentor Dr. C. B Jagan failed to change in 1992 and should rightfully be called the Dr. Jagan’s PPP constitution, continued the emasculation of the long oppressed people.
Mr. Bharrat’s absolute control even in petty matters made his power felt and the ‘follow the leader’-conditioned and intellect-deficient PPP succumbed and fell.
Moreover, Mr. Jagdeo astutely avoided the personal failures of Mr. Burnham, in that he has accumulated local assets likely far exceeding his total accumulated public incomes. (Guyanese wait for a forensic audit.) It could therefore be concluded that Mr. B. Jagdeo made some exceptionally wise investments in Guyana and/or overseas that Guyanese are not aware of.
Would His Excellency Mr. Jagdeo or his faithful followers kindly let the Guyanese people know where he invested his monies, even while in office? There is no such evidence of wise economic stewardships by His Excellency Mr. Jagdeo with the assets of the nation – since the working-classes are still suffering and praying for deliverance.
Mr. Burnham’s strategy was to nationalize anything ‘big’ and put his faithful in charge; whereas, Mr. Jagdeo’s was/is to outsource and award contracts to local and foreign gangsters or those who are willing to make secret deals at a price.
These members of Mr. Jagdeo’s nobility are given generous government contracts with little public oversight and further contracts are offered to correct the deficiencies/neglects of the first contracts. The fleecing of Guyanese is rampant, as seen in one the earliest scenarios at UG with regards to the renovation of the Biology labs with European Union (EU) funding. This was never addressed.
In addition, these individuals or their companies are given monopolies on the import of certain products, e.g., basic medicine) so that these individuals and their companies control local prices. This is another way to fleece the locals who are an already oppressed people.
These recent arrivals are given advantages and privileges that are denied to honest local businesses that have been working here in Guyana throughout the years. If the locals complained they are belittled publicly, irrespective of age or stature.
Another example is that respectable businesses such as Stabroek News and Kaieteur News have been denied radio and or television licenses despite years of responsible journalism and public service. UG students and the Linden community still cannot get their own radio and or television licenses; wherwas, the American naturalized friends of President Jagdeo get preferential treatments – they have TV and Radio licenses. Mr. Jagdeo’s largesse does not come free. Everything has a price and is negotiable.
Our Elders taught us that we can tell a man by his friends, if those chosen to serve Mr. Jagdeo locally are of questionable character and several of his overseas rich friends are before the foreign courts for basically theft, then what must we conclude of Mr Jagdeo with his unseemly acquisition of personal wealth?
The people have not forgotten the deeds of Mr. Burnham, his executioners and PNC. Likewise, the people will not forget the deeds of Mr. Jagdeo and his loyal henchmen (including those with academic titles), his unprincipled PPP and the new nobility.
Will the PPP do the right thing and apologize to Guyana for the transgressions of their leader, Mr. Jagdeo and his enablers?
 Seelochan Beharry

Well tell us how he will be back in Power. Also, I don't remember any convictions against him. He se, she sey, dem sey not the LAW.

 Mr. Jagdeo’s was/is to outsource and award contracts to local and foreign gangsters or those who are willing to make secret deals at a price.
These members of Mr. Jagdeo’s nobility are given generous government contracts with little public oversight and further contracts are offered to correct the deficiencies/neglects of the first contracts. The fleecing of Guyanese is rampant, as seen in one the earliest scenarios at UG with regards to the renovation of the Biology labs with European Union (EU) funding. This was never addressed.
In addition, these individuals or their companies are given monopolies on the import of certain products, e.g., basic medicine) so that these individuals and their companies control local prices. This is another way to fleece the locals who are an already oppressed people.
These recent arrivals are given advantages and privileges that are denied to honest local businesses that have been working here in Guyana throughout the years. If the locals complained they are belittled publicly, irrespective of age or stature.

I could say the same for Burnham

Nehru bhai:

The folks who bolted the AFC and are now licking Granger's balls---they don't give a hoot about growth and development in Guyana.

ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS THEMSELVES AND THEIR EGOS.

They are consumed by selfishness, boastfulness, self-praise and self admiration.

Thankfully, the Guyanese who vote on election day don't pay heed to those egomaniacs.

Come 2016, proven loser David Granger will remain a loser and Donald Rbindranauth Ramotar will win a 2nd term by majority.

Rev

No one is saying real reasons why the AFC is experiencing a crisis. Why would they be unhappy if they've succeeded in helping the PNC stopped many of the projects the gov't proposed and cutting funds for many agencies of gov't?

Has the leadership of the AFC benn hijacked by the pro-PNC faction? Has there been poor feedback from the grassroots supporters of the AFC. Why Charran Dass quitted and gave such a poor excuse for his reason?

Mr. Bharrat’s absolute control even in petty matters made his power felt and the ‘follow the leader’-conditioned and intellect-deficient PPP succumbed and fell.
Moreover, Mr. Jagdeo astutely avoided the personal failures of Mr. Burnham, in that he has accumulated local assets likely far exceeding his total accumulated public incomes. (Guyanese wait for a forensic audit.) It could therefore be concluded that Mr. B. Jagdeo made some exceptionally wise investments in Guyana and/or overseas that Guyanese are not aware of.
Would His Excellency Mr. Jagdeo or his faithful followers kindly let the Guyanese people know where he invested his monies, even while in office? There is no such evidence of wise economic stewardships by His Excellency Mr. Jagdeo with the assets of the nation – since the working-classes are still suffering and praying for deliverance.

Stupid man, self deception may be your modus operandi for for ignoring the truth but it is not a good strategy in the face of its glaring contradiction to the rest of the world. The PPP were heirs to the struggle of the combined nation against a dictator and instead of being facilitators to democracy the have themselves become dictators.

They usurped the struggles of the people to retain the dictators constitution and all its prerogatives to power like the crabs they have become. It is to them you should direct your venom but being committed to the same stale race base strategy that keeps these corrupt autocrats in power. And yet try to tell us they are saints!

Well, that is worn out tale and its companion story of the black boogieman that keeps most indians as PPP sheep is not workable anymore either. The young do not care for your  ethnic boundary taboos and the  think for themselves. In the next election we will see the threshold of below forty% being broken and with that goes the stranglehold to autocratic power the retrogressive executive presidency  and all it entails thrown out the window. Maybe then the PPP will learn to be democrats when they do not have no hiding place. Even crabs like you will see the light.

The AFC crisis is a tempest in a teapot. At least none of their leaders have crossed the aisle. The PPP had a 50% defection at one instant and they are still around. The AFC has a place. It is a vacuum which by default they fill.

It is a place where the disgust with the two major parties and their over half a century incapacity to mediate their greed and formalize a means to government that side steps race, and has merit as a premium. The young who do not see the PPP or the PNC ever being capable on their own  giving our nation the best have a place by default in the AFC.

Again, it is not a matter of sainted leaders, divine elders or wise gurus. It is game theory. The best outcome is when the result is not a zero sum game.  One cannot play chicken with the nations future.

Danyael,

Thank you for your response.  You sound like a dying king on the battle field.

D2

Your best friend went to jail for corruption. 

The AFC is the most corrupt party. Now get back to your cap in hand practice.

 I know, that is the story you would like to tell but the truth is as you fabricate it in your corrupt head.  That cannot help you sell the idea of the AFC as corrupt and the PPP as sanctified Brahmins. If you swallow a corrupt story whole ie a person I knew as a 20 year old is my "best friend" then you can believe Brahmins can be anything but the parasites they are because of the fabrication of humans as born into boxes they cannot get out of. Now go do a puja to that you morally corrupt cretinous dunce.

You can do a song and dance. But It was posted right here when the news broke. Now tell us how your friend who was jailed for fraud and corruption is now doing. 

I know what I posted...I said he was an acquaintance of mine when we were in school and almost 30 years ago. He was Errol work mate and friend for many years as he admitted. But is Erroll a crook on account of that? I doubt any can say that of him or of me except a miserable low life like you.

Jagdeo and the PPP insiders have over 20 of their friends and associates going to jail or in jail. Do you think we judge their character on the failings of their friends? One is what one is by their personal doings. 

Again, you are an amoral dunce and continue with this and I have a surprise for you.

Yugi, why do you worship Kwamee?

While the AFC keeps chanting that it is totally different from the two traditional parties the two factions in the party continue to praise Burnham and Jagan.  Isn't this a contradiction?

Burnham was a pig head who mis used his talent and that was limited to speech making. Cheddi was  sheep to his wife who nievely led him down the path of communism and the rest is history.

Everywhere in the world where satellites of the former soviet unions or colonial states has emerged as successful states has done so on account they embrace democracy. The legacy of these two failures is the parties they left behind. Both are yet to find a moral basis for their existence.

It there fore takes a third force to make them move. If either one wins a majority we are in the same shit hole for another 25 of a century unless we take to the streets and demand better. The so called subaltern backward Arabs, repressed for centuries,  have shown us a path. May be we can get out of our respective shit holes and lift our heads to a Spring rain.

The Americans and British acknowledged that trading Jagan for Burnham was a grave mistake for the people of Guyana and the Western world as whole. Burnham ended being a much more worse leftwing leader than Jagan. He facilitated Cuban troops moving to Angola to prop up a pro-Soviet Gov't. He destroy Western own industries in Guyana and kept the Caribbean (English) more vulnerable to leftist influence.  Guyana was the largest recipient of US aid in the third during the first ten years of the Burnham gov't.  At least in per capita terms. The Americans never expected him to become so such rabid socialist.

Jagan, who believed in the Western style of democracy, lived to fight another day. The rest maybe history, but the PPP is not. They have remained to most powerful political force in Guyana since 1950 and most analyst believe they will be there for a very long time to come. None of the parties, including the AFC can break the stranglehold of the PPP given its long and honorable history in fighting for the rights of the poor and underpriveleged as Ralph Ramkarran pointed out so clearly. You can continue to coin all sorts of phrases that sounds highly sophisticated to yourself. We can read well between the lines. The reality of Guyana is far different from you would like us to believe. The people of this land will fighting on. Any return to dictatorship will see new battles like never before. Tell Granger and his sidekicks that the generation will accept what the previous accepted without a major fight.  The cold war is over and don't expect to get lucky this around like you did in the sixties.

The PPP is on its way out. They failed to maintain the 3% advantage they had to be a majority government the last time and people saw the advantages in that 4% they lost. They only need to lose 7% this time and a whole lot of them are going to end up in jail while guyana will get constitutional reform and a stronger democracy. The young people know crony capitalism and race politics is not the way for us. We can get a better constitution under an opposition with a super majority. I am betting on that for our salvation. Those obscene crooks in the Present PPP cannot give us that. We have more to win betting against them than for them.

D2, Dat is all you have to contribute?? I was expecting at least 10 pages of PURe GARBAGE.

Jagdeo is very hungry for power. He is campaigning to be President. Mr Ramotar will be sidelined.

You are the resident dunce. You claim that it is ok for your close friends to go to jail for fraud and corruption and still call them good people. That speaks volumes of who you are.

I do not expect any better from a cap in hand individual who posts from a public computer. Move on to the next park, cap in hand and all.

And when you woke up and pulled yuh head out yuh Kakahole what happened??

duh duh duh .....Kakahole...happened??

Nehru Bhai

Let him degrade himself. He has access to a public computer today. Who knows when next he will have access to another public computer. He endorses fraud and corruption that is committed by those close to him. That speaks of a shady personality that he has become.

D2 has an intense hate for Indo Guyanese. 

Like yuh getting Bazidee from all dat PIWARI.

duh duh duh...Bazidee...PIWARI

Buckman gone CRAZY.

Just illustrating the inanity of you posting anything. Any sentence can replace any other. That is the quality of the information they contain.