Dear Editor,
I was glad to see that the PNCR accepted my advice, offered in one of my letters to the editor, and moved their own motion for the parliamentary recognition of the work of Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, their late founder/leader.
When the PPP/C had moved their motion for recognizing the sterling work of their founder/leader, the late Dr Cheddi Jagan, the PNCR had wanted recognition to be accorded to Forbes Burnham at the same time, a view also supported by certain letter writers and columnists.
This was not accepted and in my contribution in the letter columns, I pointed out that among other things, the PNC from 1985 to 1992, when they demitted office, could have moved such a motion, but, as I also said in my letter, after Burnham’s death, the PNC did not seem, for years, to even want to mention his name.
I wish to commend the PNCR for eventually moving such a motion, whether as a result of my advice or not, and also the PPP/C for supporting it, especially the gracious remarks of the Honourable Prime Minister Sam Hinds and his tactful comments and views, as well as some of his suggestions.
What we have now, is a motion recognizing Forbes Burnham, passed by a democratically elected parliament representing the will of the people, which would not have been the case under the PNC from 1985 to 1992.
“Now, this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps, it is the end of the beginning” (Winston Churchill, from one of his World War II speeches when the Battle of Britain was won by the heroic Royal Air Force), as the PNCR still has quite a lot to account for to the Guyanese people during their tenure of office.
Yours faithfully,
John Da Silva
