US cables detailed dates and alluded to conversations where…
Glenn Lall fingered other businessmen for drug links
–  admitted to knowledge and association, if not collusion, with murderous criminal elements
–  calls  Peter Ramsaroop ‘mad’ for exposing him to diplomat
WHETHER all the accusations made against Peter Ramsaroop – of his engaging in voyeurism, having been accused by a young tenant of electronically spying on her; of his having been a wife-abuser, or shirking his responsibilities as a father; of his engaging in dishonest business practices; of his being an egomaniac and political opportunist is true or not, no rational person would think or call him mad.
But Glenn Lall has done so.  And the reason for Glenn Lall calling Peter Ramsaroop mad is that Peter Ramsaroop made the startling revelation that he (Lall) knew the gunmen who murdered his pressmen; among other revelations, which those who claim to know Glenn Lall and the way he operates, say are believable.
According to Ramsaroop, Glenn Lall also revealed to him (Ramsaroop), that self-confessed drug dealer Roger Khan had been blackmailing businessmen who owed him, and conjectured that the murder of his innocent pressmen was either a retaliatory attack, a warning, or that the perpetrators were looking for guns.  Nothing pointed to robbery being a motive.
He also cited an earlier grenade attack on his premises.
These revelations were gleaned through Wikileaks from United States cables emanating from the Georgetown Embassy to Washinton – some authored by then Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy, Michael Thomas, which had quoted Presidential hopeful Peter Ramsaroop, who claimed, during an August 19, 2009 telephone conversation between him (Thomas) and Ramsaroop, to have spoken at length with Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall after the murder of the five Kaieteur News pressmen in the Eccles Industrial Site, on August 8, 2006.
The Wikileaks expose revealed that Michael Thomas had informed Washington that, although the motive for the seemingly-incidental murder of the Kaieteur News pressmen remained unclear to law-enforcement authorities, Ramsaroop had intimated to him that Lall had related to him his (Lall’s) suspicion that the murders were a retaliatory measure by Roger Khan, whom he said had been blackmailing businessmen who owed him.
Now, while Glenn Lall makes grandiose public gestures to prove himself an ideal citizen, such as opening bank accounts for donors to deposit monies to help with a cause, and an honest man with a mission to expose corrupt practices, he himself is not averse to circumnavigating honest pathways in his business dealings.
This has been proven by his stealing millions of dollars from GPL through illegal connections, even while lambasting that state entity for shortfalls in service delivery, without reporting that it is electricity thieves like muckraking newspapers that cause woes at GPL and deprive honest consumers of efficient service by that entity.
It has also been proven by the way he fabricates or twists stories about government officials, departments and projects, as well as his business rivals, while simultaneously trying to boost his own image as an upstanding citizen.
The President and other senior government functionaries have admitted that there are dishonest persons who try to beat the system; but the Cabinet, especially through parliamentary mechanisms, continually tries to stymie this practice by instituting checks and balances; but they have also called on the citizens of the land to be the watchdogs of the nation.
Even the sanctimonious US, which likes to pronounce on the mote in the eye of third-world nations, cannot manage to rid itself of the beam blinding their leaders and representatives to the even harsher realities in their own country.
They go to Third World countries and adjudicate with scorn on the antics of the natives, who fawn all over them and give them the level of importance that they do not merit.
That is why they never liked and/or supported a Dr. Cheddi Jagan, or a President Bharrat Jagdeo, and certainly not a Donald Ramotar, because these leaders have stood their stance, that while they would work in equity and mutual respect with developmental partners, they , either individually or representing a PPP administration, would never concede Guyana’s sovereignty and the dignity of the Guyanese nation to any nation-state, no matter how powerful they are.
So upon assumption of office, Dr. Jagan told the IMF to shove the conditionalities of the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP = empty rice pots) that they had imposed on the Hoyte administration, and lifted the wage freeze on Public Servants’ salaries, as well as restored bargaining power to trade unions; President Jagdeo told the EU to shove their Draconian EPA, has called for a restructuring of the fraudulent policies of the Bretton Woods institutions that rob developing nations of funds; and told the Americans to shove their high-handed orders against the appointment of Police Commissioner Henry Greene – a Guyanese citizen whom the USA has blacklisted without an iota of proof of wrongdoing.
The lowest-ranks on the diplomatic resource banks of first-world nations are assigned to Third World nations; these representatives, upon their arrival, join the cocktail circuit, are given undue importance by locals (who are probably brighter, richer and more influential by far); then, after listening to the rumours, bitching and self-serving pontifications by elements driving their own agendas, they send to Washington all kinds of skewed analytic configurations which, tragically, determine US foreign policy in dealing with nation states; and have even resulted in toppling governments.
As has been exposed by Wikileaks, the Roger Khan fiasco is another instance where external forces have joined with local opposition elements to ramp up the crime wave, eliminate and denigrate the crime fighters in a bid to depose a constitutionally-elected PPP president and government – this time the Bharrat Jagdeo administration.
While these muck-gathering representatives are listening to rumours and distortion of facts, and formulating opinions from “muck-raking” media houses, they do not take into consideration that the real nation-builders do not have time for the cocktail route because they consider their time is best served by working on developmental initiatives to better the lives and enhance the lifestyles of the people of the land.
And that is why the “muck” raked by the Glenn Lalls, who are only profit-driven and seek to destroy their competition and the competition of their advertisers, and the opposition elements find traction in the opinions of a Karen Williams and other members of the diplomatic community who, while despising the Glenn Lalls and the opposition elements, still use their venomous and self-serving utterances to formulate reports to Washington.
They even employ some of these highly-prejudiced persons, even those affiliated to opposition parties, in their embassies.
Whether debts owed by Glenn Lall to Roger Khan, as the former revealed to Peter Ramsaroop, was the cause for someone directing US attention to Roger Khan, who is hailed as a hero in some sections of the Guyanese community, is moot at this point, because Roger Khan has himself confessed to drug crimes and has been taken out of the equation; albeit opposition elements who confessed to worse crimes, including murder, have been given sanctuary by the U.S., along with their relatives, which proves the direction of the bias of that country with regard to a certain section of the Guyanese community.
The Wikileaks revelations that Glenn Lall had fingered several of his business colleagues to US diplomats as having drug links have given many of his business rivals cause for concern, because they are wondering what muck has been spewed about them by a muckraking publisher of a muckraking newspaper.
Omprakash “Buddy” Shivraj has already been forced to publicise his private business in order to clear his name, and other members of the private sector are wondering “Who next?”