WICB, Phoulorie Joe and the Morally Bankrupt PPP
Dear Editor,
It has been almost two decades since I have agreed with anything coming from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) but last week when they moved the test match from Guyana after warning the PPP government of Guyana to refrain from meddling/attempting to have government exert control over Guyana’s cricket; I wholeheartedly agreed with them. The actions of the WICB should be used by Guyanese as a teachable moment in how to stand up to the undemocratic and morally bankrupt PPP.
It is sad that the great Clive Lloyd tarnished his reputation by lending credibility to the PPP’s attempted nationalization of a private organization and both the WICB and International Cricket Council (ICC) saw the naked power grab. Bobby Ramroop a favored beneficiary of PPP government’s largesse, is the title sponsor of the Guyana T20 squad; it is not difficult to imagine the government turning over control to this same person had they been successful in their plot to take over control of the GCB. For the PPP, it’s just another aspect of life that they will total dominate because it is the modus operandi in their communist DNA to control every facet of Guyanese life.
In the same week WICB properly rejected the PPP, the country was treated to the testimony of the PPP Member of Parliament (MP) Joe Hamilton’s participating in the dog and pony show otherwise known as the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI). While every Guyanese deserves to know the unvarnished truth surrounding Rodney’s death, nothing close to the impartial truth will be gleaned from the COI because the PPP has turned this into an extended infomercial to be used in their next political campaign to exploit the racial chasm that exist in the society.
Joe Hamilton, MP better known as Phoulorie Joe in Beterverwagting where he grew up was indeed a member of the House of Israel and long- time member of the PNC. When Phoulorie Joe stated for the COI that the House of Israel was an agent of the state under Burnham’s PNC that also made him an agent of the state. If Phoulorie Joe is admitting to committing illegal acts on behalf of the state, can a reasonable person completely rule out that he was not also involved in any other illegal/criminal activity that he has not answered for?
Phoulorie Joe after his public break up with the PNC prior to the 2011 elections did not reveal any misgivings about his activities as an agent of the state but more importantly what does that say about the PPP and their penchant for embracing people of questionable character/former PNC members who are known to have committed and or been convicted of crimes? How seriously can the PPP be taken when their government issued Rabbi Washington, leader of House of Israel, a pardon? Phoulorie Joe former agent of the state, former PNC member, former GGG member and now PPP MP has demonstrated a propensity for being a party sycophant who will sing for his supper. His lack of credibility does a dis-service to the nation in the COI proceedings and appears to be nothing more than a transparent attempt by the PPP to conveniently trot out one of their compromised Afro-Guyanese props.
As Eusi Kwayana once famously said when referring to Guyana’s racial situation, all are involved, all are consumed. Will the morally bankrupt PPP call for a COI on their “industrial action” otherwise known as arson? What about Minister Sash Sawh’s death, Roger Kahn and the death squads or the ongoing state sanctioned torture by the police of ordinary civilians?
Nigel Jason
