Dear Editor
I WISH to respond to the letter by Mr Richard Moore, Kaieteur News 27, December 2019. If indeed it is his true public name, Mr Moore seeks to besmirch President David Granger on behalf of the confederacy of the ‘No-Confidence Motion’ because he did not relinquish his responsibility to this confederacy, against the majority who voted for the APNU-AFC Coalition government’ as a result of the crooked event that occurred on the 21st December, 2018.

Which you seek to sanctify what SC Ramkarran referred to, on quote as “The Shenanigans and treachery of Bharat Jagdeo and Charandass Persaud.” This same afflicted Charandass whose revelation of being a gambling addict, leaves not much room for further imagination. Hypocrisy and deception go hand in hand Mr Moore, or more, but you attempt sanctimonious hypocrisy and deception with unaccustomed reference to the Bible and Gospel. The Hebrew text that we have inherited truly abhors bribery throughout its narratives. I penned an article on March 24, 2019, in the Chronicle, “Bribery is condemned Biblically and its contempt must be transferred to our secular laws” that include all the references should you be inclined to be enlightened in that area, outside of your obvious intent. Laws are man-made, and also constitute checks and balances, through which this administration found armour to repel the Barbarians at the gates. It was not with ‘Bribes’ or ‘Phantom squads’ and intimidations that the NCM was forced to retreat, it was with the law, thus defeating the mirage you wish to create. Then there are the laws of ‘Purpose’ the purpose of embracing the 4,000 dropouts his administration inherited and commenced training courses to address, the training of single mothers which they have done. The creation of a modern, efficient Public Service that will be necessary for an expanded economy, expansions that most happen to face the new demands for employment as our semi-skilled labour dwindles, due not to our domestic politics, but to the effects of modernisation on the global work force. The President himself has confessed, in words to the effect that it is costing far more than expected to remedy the errors of the PPP; this was in reference to the infrastructural defects, not to the human content that Malone Smeulders referred to in his letter, ‘The trauma of Jagdeo’s years remains in the psyche of many villages,’ I do recommend Stabroek News November 18, as a collector’s item, That edition revisits the period between February 2002 to September 2006, an intense period, but not all that defines the morass governance that enveloped Guyana, ending in 2015. You must know if you were paying holistic attention and not tuned to the tunnel vision of callous opportunism, that neither the PPP nor GAWU, though aware that after the 36 per cent preferential market cut, a subvention was paid from 2006 to 2017, none of this money was spent on diversifying the income of the workers, by the past government or GAWU, even though in early 2015 Dr Raj Singh the CEO complained that sugar was being sold at $US300 per ton, and the cost to produce it was $US800 per ton. Do not forget that implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT) was created to support the ailing sugar industry, on the backs of the mainly ‘Other’ public service, whose less vocal unions, could bring to them no more than five per cent increase. Mothers stood for hours in long lines for $10,000 for school clothing aid. The Caribbean Development Bank in a survey released in 2015, indicated that from 2010 onwards Guyana’s youth unemployment was at 40 per cent. “The personal consequences of youth unemployment were the lack of means to support one’s self; participation in anti-social behaviours; participation in negative behaviours as a consequence of social exclusion, low self-esteem, hopelessness and ambivalence”; and in another survey, “Guyana cited for high rates of suicide, violence, and underage drinking” at the 60th Caribbean Public Health Agency Research conference in Grenada [CARPHA] June 2015. In 4.5 years the APNU+AFC have struggled and made impressive inroads to repair the maze, neglect and indifference, especially with our public health. This truth justifies the custodian capability of President Granger in the advent of OIL. I say to you, my colonial citizen as a talented and learned Guyanese instructed the coming generation “Those who are disloyal to their ancestry have less chance of creating something with a truly distinctive mark,” Norman E. Cameron. I close with the profound guidance of Frantz Fanon, “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

Regards
Barrington Braithwaite