Dear Editor,
I was appalled and shocked by an article in the Kaieteur News of March 18 captioned ‘TSU forces APNU MP to remove tint.’ I was appalled by Member of Parliament Christopher Jones’s revelation that the tint on the vehicle in question was factory made and an officer still saw fit to issue a road service licence for it, effectively allowing the car to leave with a tint above the legal limit. This is gross incompetence on the part of the certifying officer and must be dealt with condignly.
However what was shocking was that Mr Jones, a member of the National Assembly, a leader of one of the premier youth organizations in Guyana, a “role model” according to his own utterance, allegedly admitted breaking the law despite it being pointed out on a previous occasion. Such behaviour is unbecoming of a national leader, moreso a lawmaker of any country. In any democracy where citizens are holding their leaders accountable, my friend Mr Jones would have had to demit office. In this regard I trust that this matter is actively engaging the attention of the intellectual authors of the Vanessa Kissoon MP, saga, since actions like these bring political movements into disrepute because they lose the moral ground from which to reprimand others.
We cannot allow citizens, moreso the young people of this country to see us in the same light as other political entities if we are serious about projecting ourselves as a viable alternative to the PPP/C.
What was more shocking, was that Mr Jones allegedly expressed an intention to seek an audience on the incident with Minister Clement Rohee, whom he had publicly refused to recognize in concert with others as a result of a no confidence motion tabled and passed in the National Assembly at the instigation of Leader of the Opposition David Granger. In what capacity is he engaging Mr Rohee – as leader of the PPP, fellow member of parliament or Minister of Home Affairs?
Is this a case of hypocrisy or misrepresentation by the press or a case of the old axiom ‘Politics makes strange bedfellows’?
Yours faithfully,
Bevon Currie
Former National
Secretary Guyana Youth
and Student Movement
