Dear Editor,
I have seen in the media where Dr Jagdeo was addressing the sugar workers in Wales, misleading the people that the coalition is deliberately creating hardship for the PPP supporters. This is far from the truth. How can a human being publicly be so boldfaced as to assign the blame to others for the problems in an industry his government destroyed; his administration did not maintain the infrastructure and did not provide training and competent management, in addition to which he knows that world prices are a contributory factor. Is this about power? There are so many negatives about politicians, how shameless can people be?
Again, a few weeks ago he was accusing this new government of corruption. I do not doubt him, but to hear it from Dr Jagdeo made me numb. The public brought to my attention the following: We are not seeing project costs reduced with the new government; the speciality hospital was not tendered; the airport modifications retained the same problematic contractor; the last 2 modules of IFMAS were not used by the PPP and this government has still not activated them; there have been allegations that the GPL CEO(ag) interfered in the procurement process and is still on the job while there is an investigation; The coalition may very well proceed with all the inflated PPP projects. The Finance Minister was part of Dr Jagdeo’s team when he was in office. The PNC had square pegs in round holes, PPP had round pegs in square holes and now the coalition has square pegs in round holes ‒ back to square one.
My friend, a retired general from the Indian army, said to me, “Ramjeetsing, Baljeetsingh, Karamjeetsing is the same Jeet Singh.” So it does not matter which government is in power, it is the same game.
Yours faithfully,
Joe Persaud
Canada
