Not of this noble order

Dear Editor
“BISHOP” Juan Edghill, your letter in the January 08, Kaieteur News, captioned: “Faults of the David Granger administration” is yet another example of the wicked moral mindset of a political outfit that you continue to serve, represent and being a substantial part of by virtue of the fact that you are a spokesperson for the PPP/C.

You have been subscribing and continue to add to a dishonest narrative which is wholly deceptive, totally vile in its construct and content, and wicked in its intent.
It is not worth anyone’s mental energy to respond to such grievous lies that are ashamedly scandalous, as you desperately seek to scrape together reasons that are both misleading and misrepresentative of the facts as they pertain to the coalition government’s stewardship since May of 2015.

However, you must be reminded that you and cabinet colleagues of your former government bequeathed a country that had in effect become a CRIMINAL STATE during your party administration’s tenure in office. This was by design and not by accident, as systems and laws were shunted aside to facilitate plunder and pillage of multi billions of dollars of state assets and allied resources, some of which have been traced to foreign banks, as reported by international investigative agencies.

It explains why Guyana became a failed state, since hardly any institution functioned at a prescribed standard. They all became compromised and hostage to a state which was deemed the most corrupt in the history of the English-speaking Caribbean; so much so, that a United States State Department official described your party’s leader and former president as the head of a “Mafia State.” That, “Bishop” Edghill, should surely tell you where the “most corrupt” description ought to be ascribed.

No amount of lies and deception–even those repeated after your party’s equally deceptive leader–will ever remove that factual understanding of what Guyanese experienced during the dark night of PPP/C governance. Case in point, you as chairperson of the then Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), shamefully stood by, as the party you supported and still serve, made institutionalised racism its dogma. For you to have been the key person of such a constitutional body, without tendering any objections to an unfair and ungodly practice that had done nothing for inculcating tolerance, much less unity in a divided nation, qualifies you for the description as hypocrite par excellence. You never took a principled stand for that segment of the population that suffered economic genocide under a government that ensured its denial of equal opportunities. You stand convicted in every way, since your very silence aided and abetted a most iniquitous system meted out to one section of Guyanese.

The recent revelations about your racial abuse towards black people, describing them as “hard-headed,” says as much for your acquiescence towards the PPP/C as it says about your integrity. Where was your care and humanity for those bauxite workers who were terminated at Linden, when they sought your intervention in their struggle with RUSAL? What did you do? Ignore their pleas; similarly turning a blind eye to a region that faced extremely difficult times through loss of employment.

“Bishop” Edghill, you should be reminded that a no-confidence motion should only be brought against a government when its governance is in dire crises, such as what obtained during your party’s last administration. Any visitor from Mars would truthfully convey the fact that no such environment existed here prior to the parliamentary vote leading up to the treacherous Judas affair, and the fraudulent no-confidence motion (NCM) vote taken.

In the cacophony of strident calls for the government to resign, what malfeseance did the government perform to have an NCM moved against them? Such a motion had absolutely nothing to do with the performance of the coalition government. It was a political band–you included–that plotted the removal of a democratically elected government. It was about RACE and OIL and who controls the latter.

Again, you aided and abetted a process by which you will be adjudged–and by extension your party. And this, a perfidious plot, began from almost the inception of the coalition’s office, with the collapse of the once mighty GuySuCo. The government provided G$30 billion to the sugar industry over 30 months to subsidise an industry that the PPP destroyed, INCLUDING investing in a US$200 million or G$40 billon white elephant at Skeldon. You have joined with a party and former administration to continuously blame the APNU+AFC government for the shameful and abject debacle of such a great industry, when it was the PPP that destroyed sugar. This narrative speaks as much for your adherence to moral truth, as to the political distortions that you continue to represent.

So, an NCM can be brought against a government, according to Charrandass, for destroying the sugar workers livelihood, in an industry which is failing globally. However, “Bishop,” you support your party’s good governance of criminal activity in hiring death squads to kill its own citizens, because of its support for a criminal economy, drug, gold and fuel smuggling and the likes of drug kingpin Roger Khan.

Further, for you to state that “Any decent, fair-minded, analytical, objective oriented and future-thinking Guyanese would agree that APNU+AFC was the most inept…and incompetent administration in the history of Guyana,” is laughable as it is intended to convey the figment of your and the PPP/C’s great imagination for fiction and false narratives.

For all of the deliberate acts of what clearly amounts to sabotaging the implementation and progress of its socio-economic programmes of national renewal, and the monumental challenge of reigning in the inherited culture of massive state corruption, among the many dark holes, the coalition government has achieved many, many successes, in many spheres of this country’s socio-economic life, since 2015.

Just remove the wilful mental wool, self-placed over your eyes, and you will immediately observe a newness that has begun to emerge; for example, the emergence of vital infrastructure in so many communities that had been denied such amenities for the entire reign of PPP/C governance. And this extends to even communities that support your party – they, too, are benefiting from a government that is governing for ALL Guyanese and not by RACE, or PARTY affiliation.

You are aware of the numerous achievements of this government since 2015, but you and your party have been frantic in spinning a filthy narrative intended to create disaffection among the people of this country, with a government that has ensured the restoration of this country’s once battered image; political freedoms; the Rule of Law; a gradually emerging professional police force, which is now able to solve many more serious crimes with the restored cooperation of the public, and improved training; increases in the minimum wages, salaries, and pensions, by many percentage points since 2015; vastly improved Math and English passes at both the SSEE and CXC levels; creation of four new towns, along with the commissioning of community radios in many hinterland communities. The latter is to ensure that citizens are informed as to what is taking place within their country, while preparing Guyana for first-oil in 2020.

“Bishop” Edghill, you, as well as others, have sought to make a big political meal as regards the signing bonus sum of US$18M; as well as, making all sorts of inferences surrounding the visit of a party of coalition ministers to Texas. What a fertile mind that continues with its sordid matter, ready always to unload in a misleading manner. Of course, by now you must be aware that the entire sum has been accounted for, and is being directed towards the expenses for Guyana’s border controversy, now before the ICJ.

Let me say this: it is a tragedy to daily truth for you to be a participant in a narrative that has no basis for the plethora of falsities that it has been conveying, especially to its constituents. You have been part of this cohort of lies that is unmistakably being contrived for sinister motives.

You are a continuous part of a political movement which has committed so many grievous wrongs against the citizens of this land; wrongs that were done in the name of race and ethnic domination; wrongs that have left a bitter taste in the mouths of its numerous victims; crimes that took so much from this country, and committed by former officials of a government who still believes that its supporters ought not to be made to account before the courts for charges levelled against them.

Because of such a lawless position, a new morality has been emerging in this country: of wrongs being excused because of ethnicity and party affiliation. As one who professes to know the truth, your conscience should be troubled that your colleague now seeks to have charges dismissed against him for the Pradoville Two matter, when it is reported that other involved parties have been seeking to settle the outstanding sums as difference for the lots that were undersold them.

It has to be the greatest of contradictions for you to be in such an unholy environment, while concomitantly embracing the cloth. You do not have the moral authority to still lay claim to truth, when in your very letter you mentioned so many distortions, and false narratives. This means that you identify fully with its milieu, its beliefs, ideology, and practice. Such is a tragedy for the church, for what it should represent – the truth, and morality. Surely, you are not of this noble order “Bishop.”
Regards
Earl Hamilton

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