Dear Editor,

THE hypocrites are out in full force; and so are the liars of every immoral shade. Now they are joined by even newer dishonest conscripts, for a fee of future rewards from the imminent oil and gas flow. And the competition has become fiercer, in terms of who will out do the other for daily fabrications; fake news, lies and distortions of all sorts.
The main corps comprise the monsters who have been helped out from their banishment from the swamp, to where they were consigned for a while, by their land-based cohorts, generously returning a favour in return for all the material loot to which they had helped themselves.

Off the scene for a while, they have now all converged, aided by the heavily vested interest and hypocritical media, and some news sites, all salivating on the future promise of wealth from the coming of oil and gas. This prospect has resurrected the greatest collective of local hypocrites and dishonest citizens, subversives of varying types, whose various roles, when converged, are of one intention – to foment social crises, as exemplified a short while ago.

It is plainly a right-wing conspiracy; reactionary, and supported by big money, a fact of which I had since 2017, pointed out in a letter, but which was not published, for fear I believe,that it may have offended a certain sector. It was not a dishonest observation; which proof has been gradually evolving for all to see. Led by the private media with a phalanx of varied professionals – all since following the political opposition’s lead in demonizing an administration for no real credible reason, except as part of the larger goal of grabbing power.

Editor, the Facebook with its incendiary and sordid racism, is a growing tragedy for a nation that have had the experiences of this more than dangerous iniquity, made even more extreme because of its continuing use as a tool to keep political support in line. From its dark corridors, the intention is clear. How can a country with so much to gain, continue with this political detritus, which can only result in national grief? Is it not time that those, its risky practitioners, think about the degradation which they continuously off load on the country which they claim to love; and caution their party leaders for this portent of grave self-harm, which is fostered for narrow selfish ends? One wonders about the motive, the mind set of opposition politicians whose agenda of power at any cost, is premised on an appeal to race. It is the nation’s largest source of danger to the peace.

Like the effortless lies and other fraudulent pronouncements that are the constant forte, from the known quarters, inclusive of those who have since sold their consciences – they cannot lay claim to love country, while promoting divisions; Not when they never proved that fact, during the twenty-three years of governance; their governance policy of marginalization became the order of the day. They again threaten Guyana.

Regards
Carla Mendonca