Dear Editor

WITHOUT a doubt, the debacle of GuySuCo defined the morality of this nation. It laid bare how a very critical industry that is perhaps still the bedrock of political support for one of the two major political parties, and which party solely brought a once thriving industry to its knees. Astonishingly, shamelessly the argument for responsibility was boldly shoved into the oven of ethnic blame, accusing the coalition government for the woes of sugar. It was a moment in our history, when even lies complained as to how unfair its political users were to truth!
It had indeed been shocking to read the numerous crooked and totally misleading accounts/reasons given by those who should have been first and foremost with solutions as to the tragic mess their selfish handiwork has caused. It was a case where lies were manufactured with frightening ease, and more lies found, just to create more chaos and fear in the minds of the workers, whom their political party branded as supporters.
Even more tragic was the fact that there was a willing line of Guyanese, personalities who one thought would bring a clearly given perspective on truth, and then solutions that would have assisted to create clear ground for the affected workers on which to stand. Instead, for sickening political reasons of an opportunistic kind, they hitched on to the PPP/C’s band, trading truth and objectivity for a putrid pottage of daily lies and falsification; simply taking advantage of the fears and insecurities of a category of the Guyanese working class that had been cruelly exploited through the decades for purely political ends. But perhaps, we were not that much observant; for it formed a major part of the then growing plot to remove the duly elected coalition government which has been able to re-position the sugar industry, while offering alternative livelihoods to those who were terminated.
But if one had thought that such a situation was a watershed for Guyanese socio-politics, then the aftermath of the no-confidence motion vote, is the other with similarities of a more dangerously devious kind. Of course, the latter vote, one of dangerous national mischief, although clothed in parliamentary officialdom, was the high point of this attempt at social insurrection.
The defining question in this instance for any fair-minded Guyanese should be this: why was the governance profile of a government that had only been exercising its entitlement to due process, being branded authoritarian and dictatorial by a bunch of renegade attorneys, who for obviously political-ethno ends, were shoving the basic tenets of natural justice down a labyrinth, thus attempting to render them conveniently unworkable? It is natural that as attorneys they would have been advising their clients, when necessary, to seek further redress at a superior court.

These so called “legal brains” did not do their profession an ounce of good. Instead, their attempts at distortion on behalf of their political directors, continued trying to push the country to the brink. It was the most unfortunate hour for a profession that is predicated on sound reasoning, which had been conveniently forgotten on the altar of vested interests. In truth and in fact, there was no sound rationale or reason, which should have pointed the nation in such a direction, except that there were those who for sinister motives and deceptive ends, were in anti-national mode.

Let us understand that such actions have not, and cannot accrue to the moral growth and spiritual development of any nation, inclusive of Guyana. No nation, especially one with our particular challenges, benefits from the immoral actions of those whose aim is to create uncertainty through lies, national furore, and incite ethnic tensions. Such does not create capacity for unity and nation-building; only soggy ground, and disharmony for underdevelopment and stultified growth.

Regards
Earl Hamilton