I read Carl Parker’s letter in the Sunday Stabroek News of 6th April 2014 under the caption “PPP members did not attend Rupununi Democracy workshop.” Permit me to state the following:Carl Parker, the PNC/APNU’s voice of oblivion in the Rupununi, stated in his letter that very prominent residents in the Rupununi and PPP members whom he invited to attend a “Workshop on Democracy” on Friday, 4th April 2014 rejected his invitation. Parker, in his letter, did not state the reason or reasons why his invitation was rejected by the persons whom he invited to attend the workshop. In his letter, as well, Parker did not say who sponsored or organised the workshop on Democracy in the Rupununi. He never even mentioned its overall attendance, its success or failure, yet he was asked to get persons to attend, as he claimed in his letter. But the question is, who sponsored this democracy workshop in the Rupununi? Is it the PNC/APNU or AFC? I received this impression from Parker’s letter that the so-called workshop was an Anti-Government forum, which is the reason why his invitation was rejected by prominent and well-thinking residents of the Rupununi. Keep it up residents.
In his letter Parker wrongfully accused the PPP of being undemocratic and manipulative, just because the residents whom he invited to attend the ‘democracy’ workshop refused his invitation. But is this not the democratic right of the Rupununi residents, to participate or not to participate in the workshop? Yes, it is, and I hope that Parker himself attended the workshop with his PNC/APNU cabal at Lethem to absorb the basic tenets of democracy and become a practioner of democracy and not autocracy. But Parker is new to democracy since he belongs to the PNC, which rigged elections from 1968-1985 until it was kicked out from Government in 1992 as a result of free and fair elections: So who is Parker trying to fool about democracy in the Rupununi? He should be ashamed to even speak about democracy, which he and his party know nothing about. Let him ask APNU’s MP Sydney Allicock, who was disgracefully bullied off a live NCN budget programme by APNU’s Chief Whip. Is this democracy Parker?
Finally, I am calling on the residents of the Rupununi region to seriously watch Parker and block his anti-government agenda, which is destructive. In this regard, do not allow him into your communities since he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Peter Persaud