Dear Editor,
I AM amused that Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo, the Opposition leader, should accuse the Coalition Government of being “inept” on security matters. Jagdeo believes that somehow we have short memories and would not remember that it was when he was president, that Minister Sash Shaw was assassinated and up to when he left office, no inquiry was done or anyone was arrested
It was under Jagdeo that we had the biggest jail break in 2002, and a near insurrection in which many policemen were killed and some 400 youths were slaughtered. I remember that it was under this “crime fighter” that police stations had to erect barriers around them. The crime spree during Jagdeo’s presidency led to his Minister of Home Affairs being hauled before a Commission of Inquiry to answer charges of extra- judicial killings under his watch. A few Ministers had their US visas revoked!
I’d like to say more but would stop with the reminder that “pot telling kettle his bottom black”.
About the meeting in Canje, the Guyana Times reprinted that “several thousand people” staged a march in Adelphi. Several Thousand? This shows the PPP’s desperation and Guyana Times is inventing crowds since no more than 300 persons attended the event. Last month, the failed GAWU march attracted about 120 persons at most and that number trickled to 30 whilst the union leaders were speaking. One of them claimed that people did not turn out, out of fear that they would lose their US visas like Dharamlall and Seeraj. What a silly excuse!
Regards
Earl Hamilton