ONCE more, illegal protests are being threatened by a recalcitrant opposition, which has made Guyana’s House of Assembly a veritable “Comedy of Errors” since they won a questionable one-seat majority with six votes, what with the Constitution having become a mere statistic with machinations engineered to make Guyana ungovernable under a PPP/C administration.

This total disregard the opposition PNCR has for law and order in Guyana was never more evident than what transpired in Georgetown on May 16, 2008, when, having concluded an unauthorized protest march a few days prior, it ended its nefarious activities with the burning of an effigy of then President Bharrat Jagdeo outside of the Public Buildings in a clear demonstration that it was hell-bent on causing mayhem and disorder in the country, and instilling fear among the populace.
One may well recall that it was this same PNCR that was also instrumental in the staging of protests following the suspension of CN Sharma’s broadcast licence for re-broadcasting a threat made by a female caller on President Jagdeo’s person on one of the call-in programmes of that television station.
The foregoing actions are reminiscent of another unauthorized protest the PNCR’s leader, Robert Corbin, led several years before, from the East Coast to Georgetown, again in defiance of the police.
That the party has no respect for the Police Force, and is bent on causing chaos and stalling progress and peaceful relations in Guyana is abundantly clear. What is even more disturbing is the deafening silence on the part of organisations such as the Guyana Human Rights Asssociation, ACDA, Red Thread and others, who were so vocal when CN Sharma’s licence was suspended. Why are they not outraged at the PNCR’s illegal actions? Where is their condemnation? Where is their call for the law to be upheld?
One recalls the horror unleashed on a hapless populace when Mrs. Janet Jagan became president; or, subsequently, when young Bharrat Jagdeo succeeded her after her term in office was forcibly truncated through the PNC’s extra-parliamentary, violent protest actions, which saw destruction and carnage once again unleashed in Guyana, with a PNC supporter caught on camera with a bucket at the Government’s gas station as Regent Street burned.
Worse atrocities were to be committed: sexual molestation, rape, and even murders. Down to the children and the crippled were not spared. And this is the sad history of our country.
Despite this ongoing, relentless tsunami of destructive actions by a power-hungry opposition, with the new PNC configuration that has morphed into APNU, and AFC thrown into the cauldron, the PPP/C administration, under the brilliant stewardship of former President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, re-structured the socio-economic developmental paradigm of this once totally devastated country to point it into an ever-climbing upward trajectory; a near miraculous feat in a global dynamic that witnessed the economies of some of the most powerful nations in the world collapsing like ninepins; so much so that Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines called Guyana “The only shining star in the Caribbean.”
Alas! With just six votes, and Guyana’s landscape is once more on the brink of spiralling downward; not to mention the escalating of extra-parliamentary actions: Buxton, Linden, Agricola, a never-ending dirge singing the death knell to progress in Guyana.
Which leaves one to wonder whether Guyanese are zombies being led to their own destruction, time and again, by so-called leaders who are concerned only with their own acquisition of wealth, self-empowerment and self-aggrandizement. When will the people of this nation begin to think for themselves?
The fascist Minister of Propaganda in Hitlerite Germany, Herr Goebbels, is on record as saying that a lie is more believed when it is a big lie. He is further reported to have said that the more often a lie is repeated, the more one tends to believe it.
The plethora of lies being constantly peddled by the opposition collective, and their acceptance by even supposedly intelligent persons in the private sector, who have ironically also been victims of the opposition’s extra-parliamentary strategies, draw a gloomy picture of hopelessness for this beleaguered nation.
When will it end, Guyana?