Dear Editor,
I take my hat off to SN for its courageous editorial of April 23rd titled, `Broken vows’. It was comprehensive in that many major areas of Guyana’s unending woes were touched with the quick, penetrating strokes of a sharp surgeon’s scalpel. It was revealing in the sum of the existing and always advancing cancers of Guyana’s politics, particularly under the perpetually insecure leaders of the PPP Government, be this one or any other. It is the chronic sicknesses of men with broken ethics, broken visions, and broken presences. Their misrepresentations come back to strip them of trustworthy leadership clothing, emphasize the nakedness of themselves and the wretchedness that they impose upon so many other Guyanese.
They should know more about sugar than those who enslaved men and women to extract its sweetness of flavour, of finances, and of fearsome power. Yet with sugar, all the PPP can be about is the usual exploitative politics, the manipulative carrots that choke their own people, and the wastages that drain this land of promise and hope.
The PPP Governments, previous or present, have always been about control; the difference with this one is that its leaders are about total control, with the Stalinist and Leninist gaining the dominant hand with inexorable strength. As the editorial pointed out, tired and true men believed to be obstacles to the nefarious programmes hatched by the PPP brain trust (it consists of one man) are unceremoniously removed. And for replacements, the PPP always have a willing flunkey ready to do any deed that damages the psyche of this nation, and wrenches it wider apart.
Watchdog commissions have been effectively put out of commission, by being neutered with a certain kind of people; or hamstrung into nonexistence. And still these are only the first whiffs of the cesspool that Guyana has transformed into in the approximately two years of the ostensibly new and improved PPP.
I thank SN for having the guts to call things as they are, and in so doing give Guyana and the rest of the watching world a glimpse (a snapshot) only of the clever machinations and wily maneuvers of the leaders of this battered, bruised, broken land.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
