The PPP is a relic of a bygone age

Dear Editor,
It is becoming more and more difficult to understand the nonsense that is being tossed around by the minority PPP regime that the economy grew by 25 percent during the past three years. And more disturbingly, much of this nonsense is passing as the truth to the nation. The fact is the PPP ship is sinking and there is no one in the regime with the intellectual capacity who can articulate a plan to salvage the ship from sinking.
As the government continues to hurl money to parents of school children, rice farmers and sugar workers, crime and corruption keep increasing while the country’s foreign currency reserves are being siphoned away to fatten the overseas bank accounts of the rats who are preparing to go and join their money when the ship goes under. Apparently, no money has been approved by Parliament for the PPP regime to dole out to those who they believed are their supporters. So it is illegal for the PPP regime to use public funds in the form of bribes for votes. But the ill-advised PPP cabal seems to think that using the taxpayers’ money on their supporters will help them win the elections. As their corrupt practices are being exposed, more and more people are becoming angry and frustrated at the way they continue to marginalize a certain section of the population. But the people are smart enough to take the money given to them and will not vote for the PPP.
The ongoing corruption and scandals should be an enduring shame to the PPP government, but obviously they are not. It is something the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal is accustomed to and is more likely to curse and dismiss them rather than work to correct these problems. Given the sad state of the economy, high unemployment, poverty, an astonishing crime rate and massive corruption, it is hard to believe that after twenty years in power, the people will vote for the PPP regime that has done nothing to reverse the trend except to make empty and broken promises. The creation of a SWAT team promised by the Minister of Home Affairs nearly two years ago is still in its infant stages while armed bandits continue to rob and murder their victims. In his three years in office, the president has done absolutely nothing other than to prorogue Parliament and issue rude and nasty threats to an Amerindian citizen at Aishalton and allow his security personnel to slap James Adams, another Amerindian citizen who accused him of distorting the truth.
We are convinced that the responsibility for the collapse of the economy and the health, education and social infrastructures in Guyana should rest squarely at the feet of the inept Freedom House dictatorial gang. It is clear that they do not have the intellectual skills, talent and commitment to solve these issues and make Guyana a better place for all to live in decency and without fear. In other words, they are incompetent.
The administration, however, has not changed over the years. They remain locked in a Victorian work-ethic long abandoned in the 19th century as unworkable in the modern world. The PPP cabal appears to be an anachronism of a bygone age. They are an ineffective, ineffectual, belligerent, abusive and vulgar bunch, out of touch with the times, reality, the people and the technological age. They remain backward with primitive ideas and communist solutions to problems which have set Guyana back to the 1920s.
So where can we go from here? Is there any real hope that the enduring failures of the PPP regime can be turned around? That the people might once again proudly rally around a government that is corrupt and is not committed to nation building, putting the interests of the country and people first and improved the living standards of the poor and the working class. Some have suggested that this government has failed in every attempt to resolve the issues affecting the masses and therefore cannot be trusted. The national cry is the PPP has to go.
 Chandra Deolall, 
Asquith Rose
Dr. Merle Spenser-Marks.