CLATTERING to dialogue with respect to the PPP historiography by a resort to meaningless intellectual discourse and rendering the exercise a difficult intelligent quest, somehow introduces an element of futile pursuit. It is a perception of arm-chair political minds with plenty of time accumulated in earned retirement. But for the more productive minds concerned with the pressing needs of ensuring the provision of essential basics for survival, the whys and where-fores of “the traditional PPP historiography is fundamentally flawed” (Stabroek News, August 29, 2010) will remain entirely meaningless. It may be better to avoid the clattering and to face the brass tacks head on.
It is true that there was active conspiring between the British and US governments designed to keep out of power Cheddi Jagan and his PPP, therefore thwarting the establishment of genuine democracy in the then British Guiana.
The incontrovertible truth as proven by official documentation that there was a conspiracy against the PPP in order to promote Burnham as Prime Minister of Guyana will remain a historical fact debunking the slightest hint of flawed interpretation.