Dear Editor
OPPOSITION leader Bharat Jagdeo’s press statements, made in the aftermath of the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) ruling on the validity or not of the no-confidence motion (NCM) can only be described as his usual mode of misinformation.

At best, it was obnoxious and pregnant with the usual vintage Jagdeo abominations, since it contained what were definably objectionable and hideous statements designed to desecrate the personal dignity and image of especially the President, and his cabinet.
To describe the entire executive as “squatters,’’ contending that they were “dragging out the time for continuation of enjoyment of perks,’’ is wholly malicious, and reeks of the usual filth for which Jagdeo has built an unenviable public record.

Again, as pointed out in so many letters published in your medium – the government exercised its right to mount a legal challenge to what was a constitutional motion. It did so in keeping with the la-d down judicial procedures, which commenced at the High Court. Not satisfied with the latter ruling, the superior court, the Court of Appeal, was accessed and a decision was rendered in the government’s favour. Sure enough, this restored their right of continuation of a government, which had been threatened by the NCM.

One must therefore ask the opposition leader: just how does he account for his defamatory description of a government that had punctiliously followed due process as a means of defending it position against the December 21 NCM?

As a reminder to Jagdeo and those of his distorted mindset, so naturally gifted to fake news. The coalition did not seize the reins of government, because of the NCM; nor did it resort to the security forces’ presence in the capital city as a show of force, for bolstering the government. None of that occurred.

Also, the government does not need to “drag out their time,” so as to enjoy the “perks of office.” That they are still in office is because of a legitimate process which they have punctiliously followed. This entitled them a continuation of their emoluments. They are not like the Jagdeo administration, whose many members waxed fat by the criminal pillaging of the state, although they were in receipt of their legitimate benefits.

Editor, let me state this fact which is well known by all and sundry in this land of six peoples: that the NCM was predicated on a political bed of treachery, with the aim of unseating a duly elected government. This was no debate about the coalition’s performance, as even the PPP/C supporters are aware of this treacherous fact, the most perfidious in this nation’s political history.

It could have plunged this nation into its worst socio-political crisis, because of what has been correctly perceived as its racist and opportunistic ends. However, thanks to the leadership and guidance of President Granger, Guyana remained calm and peaceful, with the larger and more important of the government’s socio-economic programmes continuing unabated.

But this much is here emphatically stated – that the NCM served not only to remind sections of this nation as to the dangerous dishonesty of the Jagdeo cabal, but as a graphic eye opener and illustration of the bigger danger of their country being subverted again by a criminal collective. In plain terms, it has opened their eyes to an unconscionable lot who did absolutely nothing for them, except exacting a deliberate policy of ethnic discrimination in every conceivable manner.

This experience has made this section of Guyanese the more alert and wiser as to what will be their preference for a government.
Regards
Earl Hamilton