UNFOUNDED IN EVERY WAY

CERTAINLY, the combined one-seat diktat of the parliamentary opposition parties, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC), has, apart from imbuing both groups with the reckless use of power and a grave distortion of responsibility, also caused an inducement of political schizophrenia.

How else can one describe this opposition’s announcement that “such action blocks governmental mismanagement”? This is the height of a billion flights of fantasy!

For it is quite obvious that they alone understand what national mismanagement is, especially the Peoples National Congress(PNC) segment of APNU, having superintended its reign during a period of this nation’s history that we all would like to forget.

Is the combined opposition, speaking through its senior chieftain, Mr. David Granger, expecting the nation to accept its jaundiced and blinkered conclusion, meritless in every way, that the slashing of both the current and capital budget of the seat of the nation’s Executive, so very vital to enabling it to carry out its numerous functions of State, such as the dissemination of its policies and development programmes, prevents mismanagement?

Does the Opposition also want us to believe that the Ministry of Finance’s Capital Budget of $22,284,231,000, which is inclusive of the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project and the Amerindian Development Fund sum of $1.1B, is about mismanagement?

OBSERVER must feel a great sense of shame and embarrassment, since such a statement has come from a people’s representative of whom better had been expected on account of his academic pedigree. But, also pity, since it is quite obvious that the tainted politics of the Peoples National Congress have permeated his entire being.

Not even the late Desmond Hoyte would have uttered such a statement, which is unfounded in every way!