– with his nonsensical gibberish
THE host of AFC’s programme, ‘Alliance on the Move’ continues in his inimitable style to make irresponsible statements which are meant to deceive those who depend on the programme for information, or rather misinformation, on a wide range of issues.

‘HERBAL DOC’ ON THE BUDGET
On March 29, 2014, on DTV 8, I painfully listened to ‘The Herbal Doctor’ trying his utmost to confuse his listeners. He firstly attempted to tell Berbicians that the 2014 Budget has nothing in it for them; nothing for GuySuCo workers; nothing for civil servants; nothing for teachers; nothing for nurses; and nothing for the poor people.
Mr Ramayya should not have walked out of Parliament with his ‘buddies’, since he would have been more edified on those issues. He further claimed that the extra $10,000 to be given to each student is insufficient; that the $30,000 subsidy to old age pensioners is inadequate; that the increase in old age pension cannot even buy ‘butter flap’. He needs to understand that these are assistance given to parents to help their children attend school regularly, and that this government has done more for old age pensioners; more for education; more for public servants; more for teachers; more for sugar workers; and more for this entire country than the previous dictatorship government.
There was a time, Ramayya, when you could have been jailed for that same ‘butter flap’, but you were in the USA having the best that a democratic country can offer! Children got ‘white-mouth’ because of rice flour, and people became criminals because of food. People had to line up for a whole day to buy half a pound of butter! People like you want to bring back that era, because you are a US citizen, and can go back home. We have to live and die here!
Old age pension has increased hundreds of times since the PPP/C government took office. You need to understand that now ‘one butter flap a day can keep ‘The Herbal Doctor’ away’! Economic development is taking place, but at a slow pace due to the AFC and APNU’s non-co-operation with this government. If people like you and your buddies had co-operated, then the old age pensioners would have received more than ‘one butter flap’, and students would have received more assistance from this government. Yet, despite AFC and APNU’s unpatriotic and hate-filled strategies to make this country ungovernable, the Government has come out victorious. Read the Budget well and do a line-by-line analysis in your next episode! Hate-mongers like you cannot stifle development in this country!
He later contradicted himself by saying that the 2014 Budget is an election Budget that is meant to capture votes! Any reasonable person will tell you that if it is an election budget, then the Budget is good for the country as a whole! This man has a close affinity with a deck of cards (the two unused ones).

THE CHIEF JUSTICE’S RULING
This man should stick to his herbal medicine. At least the herbs he is selling will not kill you, but the irresponsible statements he is making defies logic and commonsense, and can have devastating consequences. He said: “Anil Nandlall went to court, and got Ian Chang to sign that we cannot touch the Budget. Well, we will see next week!”
What message is this man sending? Is he trying to say that the learned Chief Justice, a man of irrefutable integrity, did not make a proper ruling? And that he was influenced in some way by the Attorney-General to turn the decision in the Government’s favour? Have you read the ruling of the Chief Justice? Why are you peddling misinformation to your fellow Berbicians?

ANTI-MONEY-LAUNDERING BILL
Next came the crème de la crème of his nonsensical gibberish! ‘The Herbal Doctor’ claimed that persons from the government are coming to Berbice, and are lying with regards to the Anti-Money-Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill. He claimed that the AFC cannot support the Government on the Bill, because the Bill needs a two-thirds majority in Parliament, and that only APNU can give that. He said, “They want to blame the government, but let me tell you, each and every one of you, the PPP lie. Unless you have two-thirds in the Parliament, the Bill cannot pass… AFC cannot stop the PPP from passing the Bill. If not, tomorrow I resign from Parliament and resign from this Party. That is the assurance that I will give you…”
The AML/CFT Bill only needs a simple majority of 51%! This man is a legal genius and should rewrite our Constitution! So, ‘good doctor’, will you keep your promise and resign from the political scene? If not, can you just avoid embarrassing yourself, the AFC, and the people of Berbice by keeping your mouth shut? Where is the truth you boasted about? You said, “This is my truth.” Is it? What a disgrace for a Member of Parliament!

WORLD CLASS COMEDIAN
In closing, this man said that Guyana could export lime and receive a revenue of TT$20 for one! In addition, he claimed that someone told him at the Port Mourant Market on the same day of his ‘comedy jam’ that the bell loaders use three to four beds of cane to throw in the drains so that the machines could cross over! If they do that, then what cane will be loaded into the punts? This man should be on stage with Jumbie and Chow-Pow in the next stand-up comedy; he gonna beat them by miles! This man will soon be publishing his own dictionary, ‘Ramayya’s Oxen-Ford Dictionary for Dunces’. He said that ‘his brother was sweating perfusively’. This sure beats Mrs Malaprop!
HASEEF YUSUF
AFC Councillor