KINDLY publish this letter for me in your widely read newspaper. I read Carl Parker’s long-winded letter in the Stabroek News of Monday, February 17, 2014 under the caption, “Lethem rates were raised in 2009, with a promise of Electricity 24/7, it did not happen then; it will not happen now”.

Kindly permit me to state the following:
1. Carl A. Parker is an APNU/PNC activist and Regional Councillor on the Region 9 Regional Democratic Council (RDC). Parker is known in Lethem to be likened to a barrel that makes the most noise. Parker said in his letter that “The prime minister has been misinformed about my role and has called on residents not to follow me.” Well, the prime minister is totally correct and in order. Can Parker say why he is not welcome in the Kwaimata Amerindian Community any longer by the senior councillor?
2. Parker, in his letter, said, “The people are my bosses, and they instruct what issues I must represent.” The few people that Parker claims to represent in Lethem are misguided PNC/APNU supporters. Many residents of the Rupununi region are aware that if Parker cannot help himself, how can he help them?
3. Parker’s long-winded letter dealt a lot with Lethem’s electricity situation and even referred to the Moco-Moco Hydro-Power Scheme, which is currently not in operation. But the truth is that Parker is not an electrical engineer; neither is he an expert on hydro-electricity, and on this basis is not qualified to make pronouncements on the electricity situation in Lethem, which can definitely be misleading and technically not feasible. Yet Parker’s letter gives the impression that he wants to have a debate with the prime minister at a meeting in Lethem on the electricity situation, knowing fully well that he is not qualified to do so, and that his actions are merely being anti-Government and not progressive for the Lethem residents.
4. Parker, in his letter, accuses the management of the Lethem Power Company of malpractices, which is absolutely misleading and wicked. The problem with Parker at Lethem is that he is job-hunting and wants to be hired by the company. But this is Parker’s style of marketing himself, which is responsible for his being on the road to nowhere. Little things in Lethem’s public sector he mischievously blows out of proportion, just to regain political relevance and to capture the attention of the PNC/APNU leadership through the Stabroek News. My information is that the PNC/APNU & AFC are on the decline in the Rupununi region.
5. But Parker conned the Lethem residents, whom he called his “bosses”, and what they need to do now is to quickly fire him, since electricity in Lethem is back to normalcy after a mechanical failure. Parker fooled Lethem residents that electricity will not return to them. But that is his style of irresponsible and awkward leadership in the Rupununi region.

PETER PERSAUD