Dear Editor,
A simple citizen has a question for Guyana’s chief man of the law, the Hon. Attorney General, Mr. Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, MP. He is a man of the law, and of that there is no dispute, so let that be put to bed. It is an ordinary question: is Leonora in Region Three, Guyana’s version of Alabama? Not the Crimson Tide of rampaging Alabama college football achievement, but that old lawless Alabama of an era now long gone by. Well, at least, now well-bottled up underground.
Sections of the Leonora of today give every impression of having its own system of law and order. Revelries round the clock, including on days of worship. Nobody has hurled a bottle at a house of worship to date, but one citizen has not been that fortunate. He now stands victimized for daring to challenge the status quo. Also, Leonora has some peculiar strains that remind knowledgeable Guyanese of Alabama’s chief of security and domestic peace, one Bull Connor. He was not one to see any evil, hear any evil, or speak any evil. Especially when the purity of his folk was considered. Seems like that kind of Alabama came to Leonora up until recently. That is, men with the right kind of access are a law unto themselves. There is one kind of access possible, the one that gives official people a reason to look the other way. It is called cash or help in getting rid of a stash. Don’t look over here and ask what kind of stash. It would be much more rewarding to reach out and consult with Guyana’s man of the law, Dr. Nandlall, who knows all that there is a need to know, and then some more.
The quiet recommendation is for Guyana’s supreme lawmaker and law deliverer, AG Nandlall to consent graciously to make good on his promises articulated so responsibly and nobly on some programme that he has, and on which he expounds about things in Guyana. Developments that are good and bad. Mr. Nandlall doesn’t need for some peasant to inform him that what is going on in Leonora is bad. Noise pollution is bad for most residents of that once rustic Cinderella arcadia known as Leonora, except for those putting out the noise at high volumes and singing in the rain (and all hours of the dark). This is bad for the clean image of his PPP Government. Bad for hometown hero, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali. Excellency Mohamed Irfaan Ali is not a stranger intruding on the way of life in Montgomery Alabama during the destructive Jim Crow decades; nor is he trying to change the way things are in some part of the Mississippi Delta. Leonora is his ground, where he used to run those once dusty streets, and villagers were a study in civility. Today, incivility is the order of the day in a Leonora no longer benign, but brutalized night after night by the night crawlers, the night stalkers, and the night horrors that rule the roost in good old Leonora.
Strange place is this Guyana: some in the hood turn Leonora into the rowdiness, recklessness and lawlessness and Guyana’s president is the picture of untroubled serenity. No one should be playing politics at this time. Nor should anyone be protecting anybody. Nor should members of the private sector be allowed to believe that they have won some special PPP governmental dispensation to carry on as they please.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
