THE CORRELATION between the joint forces in Guyana and the PNC’s predilection to take Guyana down a violent path of destruction and tragedy has left an aftermath of suspicion that has systematically corroded the trust between members of Guyana’s security services and certain sections of the Guyanese society. It is no secret that, as security advisor to both Presidents Burnham and Hoyte, Brigadier David Granger was integral to the formulation and implementation of cruelly oppressive administrative policies of the PNC that kept Guyanese a subjugated people, when dissident voices were either suppressed or silenced forever.
However, despite desperate attempts by prominent members of the current opposition and their associates in the media to create so much confusion in the land in an effort to vitiate the elections results, the Carter Centre and other champions of democracy prevailed and Guyana was propelled into an era of unparalleled growth and development, which catapulted this nation from a severely impoverished graph rating on international indexes – ranking even below Haiti, to what Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Mr. Ralph Gonsalves, described as the only shining star in the Caribbean.
Prior to 1992 the goon squads, with support from the army and the police,had terrorised the PPP members and supporters, as well as other opposition parties, among which was the WPA, to the extent where some were even killed, or locked away indefinitely on trumped-up charges.
But when Dr. Jagan assumed the presidency he promised no witch-hunting and, except that members of the PPP/C composition were assigned ministerial portfolios, the administrative construct remained largely intact, with almost everyone, including permanent secretaries, retaining their former positions.
Then Commissioner of Police, Laurie Lewis, continued to discharge his mandate with great professionalism; and he paid a terrible price because, like every professional Guyanese of African descent who decides to serve their country with dedication and commitment to duty, regardless of who helms the nation, he was subjected to unending vilification, to the extent where there were fears for his life.
The current administration also attempted – and has largely succeeded, in professionalising the army.  But within the ranks of both security entities – and even in the prison service, the mavericks still continued to join with the opposition collective in their calls for “kith and kin” to engage in a continuum of “slo’ fiah, mo’ fiah” activities.
That they had ample support in their seditious actions from the international and donor communities was confirmed by the Wikileaks revelations, whereby the same lies and distortions of situations, incidents, and facts continuously peddled by the opposition and their media satellites were regurgitated in ambassadorial reports to Washington and other countries, as well as funding agencies.
Two of the most arrantly arrogant anti-Government US ambassadors, Ronald Bullen and Karen Williams have caused much agony in this nation with the actions undertaken by their government as a consequence of their reports, which deprived sections of the Guyanese society of protection and left them wide open to depredations of criminal predators, many of whom were given sanctuary in the USA, despite their having confessed to the most heinous crimes against PPP/C supporters, even murder.
Karen Williams admitted that all her reports were based on information provided to her by a couple of journalists, which bespeaks the level of her professionalism and impartiality befitting the ambassador of the most powerful nation in the world.  The USA and Europe have never been friends of the People’s Progressive Party and their supporters, and every time evidence surfaces pointing to their complicity in the seditious behaviour of Guyana’s opposition, it strengthens the will of Guyana’s primary political party’s leaders and supporters to never buckle to international forces if that would derail Guyana’s development imperatives; because there is no expectation, except in rare instances, given the track record of their continuum of support for seditious elements every time a PPP Government is administrating the affairs of the country, that they would be fair, impartial and non-prejudicial in their analyses of Guyana’s economic, political and social landscape and dynamics.
The complicity of Guyana’s joint services with the former PNC regime, including the part David Granger played in the depredations in this country, are extensively chronicled and need not be regurgitated here.  However, because of this country’s troubled history and the nexus being drawn in a collaboration between Granger and former Commissioner of Police, Winston Felix, to strategise along the PNC’s traditional elections-related “slo’ fiah, mo’ fiah” strategies, alarm bells are ringing in the administrative construct that is responsible for the maintenance of law and order in the country.
What is also frightening is the fact that Felix, who is currently merely another civilian, was seen issuing instructions to a senior member of the police force, even as APNU members were breaching the peace and the law by storming through police barriers in a manner reminiscent of the “slo’fiah, mo’ fiah episode in Guyana’s history.
The infamous telephone conversation – secretly recorded, between Felix, while he was yet Commissioner of Police, and Basil Williams, then Chairman of the PNC, during which the latter was thanking the former for services rendered by “diverting them” in a conversation primarily about the Agricola massacre during a crime wave in the country, is indicative – and a mere tip of the iceberg of the role the mavericks in Guyana’s security forces – even at the most senior levels- played in the destablisation of the nation and the administrative construct by the opposition.
This was in allusion to the Agricola massacre and other issues, during the period when there was a near-total breakdown of law and order in the land, where criminals, dubbed “the Buxton resistance” annexed that community – holding it to ransom and made murderous forays the length and breadth of the country.
The role the international community played in aiding the criminals is also well-chronicled and continues to this day to hurt the soul of a section of this nation’s citizenry – those who are the consistent victims of the opposition’s criminal forces in Guyana.
But the security services also have brave and good men and women who are committed to protecting their country and their countrymen and women, and so, one by one, the criminals were hunted down and taken by the brave and loyal members of Guyana’s joint services.
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee gave a breakdown of this administration’s investment in the security of the nation, with budgetary allocations to the police force increasing from $589 million in 1992 to $5.7 billion in 2010.
Also, government’s support for community policing groups has been lauded as being the best in the Region, as Guyana has been recognised for being the only country in the Caribbean to make budgetary allocations to its community police.
Yet this initiative has come under attack by opposition forces, as has the installation of CCTV cameras in public places.  Granger described this as a violation of people’s rights to privacy.  Well, those who make it a habit to burn down public buildings, spread fear in the country through so’ fiah, mo’ fiah strategies, send bandits to kill children in their beds and innocent citizens in their homes and legitimate public places; and chop down billboards will certainly have their actions come under surveillance, hence the protest against these security measures.
At the Bartica PPP rally,
President Jagdeo told supporters that the days of racism in the nation are over and the PPP/C will ensure that they never return.  He also slammed the opposition for being “…more sympathetic with the criminals than (with the) ordinary citizens and victims of crime….They constantly criticise the police and take the side of the bandits.”
He continued “The PNC/R had its hands in the Bartica killings” and stated that the party still could not accurately account for the hundreds of weapons that went missing under its tenure in Government.
Both President Jagdeo and PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar said that the PNC/R could never be forgiven for the sufferings of the victims of  criminals that they supported, including the infamous Lindon “Blackie” London, whom they made a hero, even draping his coffin with Guyana’s Golden Arrowhead at a monument built to honour Kofi, a real national hero.
Rohee said that, despite there being a different political culture today under the PPP/C administration, in the country, there is need to be aware of the remnants of the former opposition goon squads that were manifested at City Hall on nominations day.
That the PNC has still not changed its identity and strategies, despite camouflaging itself with a name change, is evident from its actions in Buxton, when mainly youthful members of that party were bused in to disrupt a PPP/C meeting, beat up PPP/C supporters, and destroy their property.  The peaceful and responsible behaviour of the young members of the PPP/C, who were not provoked into retaliation, is a microcosm of the national picture of the direction in which the PPP/C guides its young people, who will chart the wave of the future of this country.
To all these provocative actions and vindictive, untruthful rhetoric by the APNU, AFC and opposition media houses, their internal and international counterparts have maintained a resounding silence – a far cry from the criticisms levelled at PPP/C speakers when they speak only the truth, because their truths reflect the ugly souls, personalities, and histories of the opposition collective.
Their promises to the people are all false, and all their negative allegations against the current administration are premised on falsehoods and distortions of the truth; that is why, for example, Granger had to resort to reading from a prepared text at the Buxton rally, while Donald Ramotar, President Jagdeo and other PPP/C leaders could speak extemporaneously at every meeting and rally, because they are speaking from the heart and not regurgitating plans stolen from another party’s manifesto, as is happening with the PPP/C manifesto.
Granger could rightfully assert that the PPP/C manifesto, which he has obviously studied in detail in order to educate and inform himself, has largely the same plans as before.
But the development of the country is a work in progress; and every sector is being addressed simultaneously.  Donald Ramotar has promised that he will continue Guyana’s development trajectory along the excellent pathway that has been charted by incumbent President Bharrat Jagdeo, which will bring Guyana on par with the most modernised and developed countries in the world within the near future.
All the foregoing are unpalatable truths for the opposition collective to digest in their quest for power; so they will continue to spew their venom, which can no longer poison the minds of Guyanese, because this nation is once more joined on a common pathway to achieving peace, progress and prosperity, which the people recognise can only be delivered by a PPP/C administrative construct.