Dear Editor
SO, Bharat Jagdeo, leader of the parliamentary opposition would want the nation to accept that Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s statements about PPP/C-controlled NDCs discriminating against Afro Guyanese, while sabotaging government programmes, amounts to being “incendiary” that will “affect ethnic and political harmony”.

Again, just who does Jagdeo believe he is fooling, in a country which he has been one of the chief architects of institutionalized racism and political disharmony? In fact, this great pretender and deceiver as a national leader should be asked to show what and when has been his contribution towards fostering racial unity among the people of this land.
It is my firm conviction that Bharrat Jagdeo, of all the nation’s presidents, had the greatest opportunity to change the course of this nation’s history, as far as bringing about the coveted goal of racial harmony. The rest is now history, of a Jagdeo’s regime with its patently racist policies have driven the wedge of divisiveness even deeper, which is the cause of the great socio-economic disparities that now exist. Even with the change of government, and President’s Granger invitation to explore the national avenue for unity, he has blatantly refused because of his own personal, selfish political ambitions.

Editor, how can he as a former leader speak of a threat to “ethnic and political harmony” to which he has never made any contribution? Instead, his many policies and statements would have pushed this country to the dangerous precipice. The many instances of institutionalized racism are well documented and are in the public sphere. Suffice to say that it was on his watch that Dr Roger Luncheon said that no African-Guyanese was qualified to be appointed Ambassador or High Commissioner for Guyana, while he was being questioned in court in the famous Freddie Kissoon libel case. Editor, is Jagdeo for real?

Regards
Troy Douglas