Dear Editor,
FORMER President, Donald Ramotar’s latest contribution to the ongoing propaganda effort of the PPP/C, to discredit the A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) government, is another effort in great futility.

His method of lies is similar to that of another unconscionable purveyor of lies, Leslie Ramsammy, and reflects an ideological mindset that is wholly gifted to institutional fabrication, desperately dedicated to whitewash their former government’s abysmal record of bad governance, in which every conceivable law had been trampled on, and constitutional institution ignored, in deference to the agenda of a criminal state.

Therefore, without any compunction, fear or favour to none, Ramotar’s claims published in the Stabroek News, dated August 28, 2019 accusing the government of “destroying the independence of our institutions’’ reads like another piece of vile contrivance from within the PPP/C’s smelly bag of dirty lies. Editor, these PPP/C lies know no bounds. These lies are especially for their target audience, for it is only persons who would not have lived through the horrors of the PPP/C rule, where civil liberties were severely curtailed, would want to swallow such perfidy without even question.

Rather than having to repeat, ad nauseam, Ramotar’s craving for deception and misleading information, let me remind this former president that neither his or his predecessor’s regimes ever respected any of this nation’s constitutional institutions, much less their functions. Both their understanding of this high ideal of governance pale into insignificance the respect accorded by President David Granger and his administration. And much to the dire disappointment of Ramotar’s mental security, constitutional institutions, since 2015, are performing their functions without political interference as had been rife during the PPP/C ’s regime over two decades in office.

Shining examples of such respect for the nation’s institutions, and the fact that they must be insulated against government’s influence, has been the allotment of budgetary agencies for sixteen constitutional bodies. Significantly also has been the permanent appointment of Judges, and non-influencing by the Executive in the judicial decision- making process. In fact, the judiciary has made rulings against the current administration; a judicial action that many judges were very careful not to attempt during the tyranny of PPP/C authoritarian rule.

Even in the post–NCM consequences, the APNU+AFC has acted in accordance with the CCJ’s decisions, particularly with acceptance of its ‘interim status’, although there is no provision for such in the Constitution. Finally, I would refuse to parley further with regards Ramotar’s claims of promises made during their campaign, “that they had absolutely no intention of keeping’’. Again, this is a figment of his vivid imagination, which is not worthy of any citizen’s good time. He and his comrades only have to look around, inclusive of their support communities, to observe the renewal of this nation, taking place since 2015.
Regards,
Earl Hamilton