CHRISTOPHER Ram, Chartered Accountant, Business Consultant, Public Commentator, Social Activist, and Attorney-at-law, has built quite a reputation as an observer of the local political-social-economic scene. He has criticized and attacked the PPP/C administration on every conceivable aspect of national interest, particularly those pertaining to matters of national development that will benefit the Guyanese people.
But the fact that he can do so is due to the prevailing climate of democracy with its sacred tenet of freedom of expression that exists in this country. And he is on record, as even attacking this fact, claiming that it does not exist here. What a man! What a Guyanese!
For Ram, every development project that this administration has ever executed for the wellbeing of the Guyanese nation has never been right. Of course, the favourite accusation is always corruption and mismanagement; and, in levelling such allegations, he does so in a manner that suggests that they are deliberate acts, perpetrated on the part of the subject minister.
This has always been his mantra, as aptly illustrated again in Wednesday’s Stabroek News, March 22, via a letter captioned, “There are numerous examples of the Finance Minister’s mismanagement”. In a nutshell, he has accused this able minister of impropriety.
In fact, he has  even  suggested  that a letter dated March 15, in which a Mr. Nigel Hinds described  Dr Ashni Singh, the focus of his latest written criticisms, as among the “best and brightest”, as being one of sarcasm, rather than complimentary, as that writer clearly intended.
This has to be grudge, pure and simple, and Ram must understand that the Minister of Finance has earned the respect of the nation for the management of its fiscal affairs. How else has Guyana been able to achieve a 5.3% growth rate as at half year 2011?  Not by wishful thinking or magic! Do not forget Mr. Ram that credit must be given where it is due.
Critics such as Christopher Ram, must pause, if only momentarily, and evaluate objectively, the beneficial gains that this nation have gained. Even he must have benefitted, too.
Surely, his personal standard of living would have improved, as well as his colleagues.
And he ought to be the last person to level charges against anyone in this nation, since he is yet to account to the nation over charges of impropriety, alleged, sometime ago.