PPP oligarchy running Guyana into the Ground

Dear Editor,
We want to wish all Guyanese the best of health and mental strength because this is what is really needed today to survive the oppression under the uncaring, greedy and selfish cabal. We as socio-political advocates for the betterment of the poor and the working class in Guyana continue to stumble upon cases upon cases where Ministers of the corrupt PPP regime spend more of their time defending their economic sponsors than they spend trying to find human development solutions for the people. Since taking office more than a year ago, this PPP regime has reneged on all its promises except for one, which is to blatantly use the state resources to make its Ministers, its friends and relatives richer.

Today we find Ministers spending their time to defend the billion-dollar contracts given to friends of the regime; be it the $3.4 billion per year medical supplies contract to a special friend or Fip Motilal and his road to nowhere.  Now; there is more like the $50 billion Chinese built Skeldon Sugar Factory that produces less sugar than the 75-year-old factory that was shut down to make way for this new white elephant.

There is the $13 billion of taxpayers’ money squandered behind an ICT project that is five years in the making.  Most people steep in technology would know by the time that project is completed the technology will be most out dated and thus rendered fit for the garbage dump after spending some $13 billion.
What is the majority political opposition and civil society doing both in and out of Parliament about putting a stop to these cases of mal-administration and corrupt practices?

It is a total political miscalculation on the part of the PPP to think that Berbicians will forgive them for allowing their business buddies to reap the milk and honey from the Treasury. Day in and day out the poor and the working class continue to be bombarded by floods, power outages, poverty wages and the high rate of crime and violence in their community leading many of them to hopelessness and mental desperation.  This is the hopelessness and desperation that are driving so many to commit suicide in the motherland especially in the county of Berbice.

It must be arrested even if it means the majority opposition fanning out to the communities to talk to their fellow villagers, providing the moral and political strength to fight this uncaring and odious PPP oligarchy that is running Guyana into the ground as they continue to give contracts to their friends at the exclusion of others and at the expense of the poor and the working class.

When last has a Minister of the Government visited the East Bank Berbice Public Road to know if the residents are satisfied with the road work being carried out by that Mahaica contractor?  Does the PPP really care about the pain and suffering of these people?

Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh