Dear editor,
THERE is a new political movement which has taken about 19 Guyanese by storm. The new movement is made up of all minor political parties that come under the umbrella,The Critic Initiative(TCI). Most, if not all must be aware of the mother of all elections reproducing like it’s nobody’s business. The inevitable result was eight premature prenatal deaths and now nine struggling premature infants. Counted among the prenatal deaths was the Christian Party which apparently had planned to eradicate homosexuality and set Guyana on a new spiritual path. Unfortunately, the leader was caught lying to the Guyana’s ’God’ aka GECOM and was kicked out like Mr. Granger has been kicking out corruption. While this saga was unfolding, the world renowned kleptomaniac, The Perennial Propaganda Party(PPP), was busy fathering the struggling premature infants. When presented with the fruits of his labour, he flatly refused to sign the birth certificates, stating that he is not prepared to take bastard kids to his holy Pradoville mansion.

So now the fatherless TCI, living in abject poverty, are without a policy shirt or a manifesto trousers. Apparently, young kids don’t need clothes to be running around like Adam and Eve. While they ran around with apparently no trouble in the world, their deadbeat father figured out that they may be useful in creating mischief by calling around government ministries and hospitals begging for photos. The PPP-Children (PPP-C) under instructions from their ruthless and heartless father would unashamedly state that, they would rather the photos not be recent and preferably taken when the PPP was in power and the entire country was in a state of disrepair. If on any given day they encounter difficulties in acquiring photos, then Google Images is there to rescue them. Once a photo is acquired, they set off with photo in hand, rushing to social media, head over heels where they upload said image and in their premature cretinous state will argue, worse than a high-wine-drinking drunkard, that the government is a failure. Yes, one propaganda still image defines the success and failure of a government. Clearly, this must be cases of severe mercury toxicity.

Before you rush to the conclusion that I’m confabulating, I should make it pellucid that I don’t do stories, I leave that for Enid Blyton. To allay your fears I will provide two examples: last week, quite a few of the impolitic TCI uploaded an image of a severely leaking roof at the West Demerara Hospital. They were going on and on about this leak, as if they were afflicted by a severe Jagdeo-type diarrhoeal disease. One good doctor, clearly exasperated by their regular miasmic utterances, suggested that they cut down on their daily laxative use since the entire world is infuriated with the daily feculent and odious matter emanating from their claret-red lips. Anyway, word got to the West Demerara Hospital hierarchy about this inexplicable oral proliferation. As a result, the Medical Superintendent, Dr. Erica Kirton had to interrupt her Sunday prayers to inform us that the PPP/C was lying. She went on to state, with elegance, confidence and poise, that the image that is being circulated was taken in 2007 when the PPP government was in power and completed another of its poor quality projects. The reasons why the quality was substandard is multifactorial: firstly, one of their cronies who has no experience in construction, was awarded the multimillion dollar contract. Frankly, I wouldn’t trust those clowns to build a fowl pen, much less a hospital. Secondly, the selected crony had an obligation to pay a massive bribe to the government. It is called greasing the government official’s hand. Finally, with a significantly reduced budget they can purchase only poor quality materials, hence the poor quality job.

Now the second example or rather second source of belly-bursting laughter. The vacuous TCI are irritatingly persistent, worse than that of an annoying fly. Having being caught lying the first time, they unashamedly ran out with another of their acquired image. This time the propaganda is of shortage of gloves at Linden Hospital. One of the dim-witted PPP/C was hilariously begging on social media for donations to source gloves for the hospital. But there was just one problem: even if millions of dollars of donations were received, these type of gloves are not available at general stores or pharmacies. Anyway, the very day the image was uploaded to facebook, the CEO Mrs. Michelle Bollers received an emergency bleep with the message, “dullards at it again.” A single phone call confirmed Mrs. Bollers’ worst fear. The anencephalic cretins were metastasising propaganda faster than that of the WHO worrying coronavirus. The goodly CEO had only one choice: interrupt her Sunday sermon; retrieve her megaphone from the mountain top and shout, TCI you lie. TCI you lie. TCI you lie, lie, lie. The fact is that there was absolutely no shortage of gloves. The only shortage that should be concerning to most Guyanese is a severe shortage of commonsense in these political nincompoops. From the Madam CEO’s explanation, it is obvious that there was absolutely no need for the TCI simpleton to beg for money on social media. Frankly, she could have saved the little dignity she had, if she had simply sat down at some random corner on Regent Street with begging bowl in hand and a note stapled to her chest, which would have read, “Desperately need your help. I have legal bills to pay.”
Mr. Editor and there are many more of this foolish propaganda. You see the main role of the PPP-Children (PPP-C) aka TCI is to show the government in a bad light by spreading blatant lies and propaganda. The infantile plan is for the PPP to make inroads into the government’s countryside strongholds as a result of this uncertainty, while the government is focused on addressing the propaganda. Kind of a toddler-level quid pro quo. TCI gets revenge against the government, since that is what drives the clownish party, while the PPP forms the next government.

That fact is that problems, like the poor, will forever be with us. If I am to leave my home and walk for 10 minutes, I will find many problems. I may see a few potholes which are common during the winter, as a result of the freezing temperatures, damaging the roads. I may see random empty wrappings on the roadside, compliments of kids dropping them on their way from school. I may also see a flickering road light which is close to the end of its natural life. The electorate is aware of these random problems and will never use them to judge a government’s success or failure. A good opposition leader will never be caught up with those random issues. A good opposition leader would want to establish if these issues are systemic. If these issues are reflected in most communities in Guyana. A good opposition leader would then highlight these issues to the electorate with a view to reinforce his theory that the government is failing the electorate. A good opposition leader will then proceed to articulate his plans on how he will address them if elected. Simply highlighting a problem does not suffice. The electorate wants to know what you will do differently.

What the PPP-Children are doing is bound to fail. Just like their daddy who shared one random picture of one Afro-Guyanese acquiring a two-inch piece of land and used that to fallaciously argue that this government is working only for Afro-Guyanese. His clueless, mercury toxic children are producing random images, which so far are all false, to argue that the government is a failure. Clearly neither daddy nor picknies are reading the newspapers, following social media, listening to the radio or looking at TV. If they had they would have seen all the hundreds of projects this government completed in 2019 alone. The government is providing evidence from all regions of Guyana of what they have done and is desperately crying out to have an election based on issues and not propaganda, lies or race. The PPP would rather not speak of their sordid 23-year record, hence the desperate attempt to have their children do their dirty work. That’s speaks of poor leadership that no amount of mercury can correct.

Now please have a look at what your government did in 2019 Regions 7&8.
61. Bartica -Potaro road upgrade($132M)
62. Building of hinterland highway($303 Billion)
63. Rehabilitative road work from White Hill to Issano($126M)
64. 3.3MW power plant at Bartica ($800M)
65. The Bartica Magistrate’s Court($174M)
66. Water ambulance for Region Seven($11M)
67.  Paruima Primary School($31M)
68. Kamarang Primary School($30M)
69. Bartica mining lottery for 136 blocks
70. First warden station
71.  Kato hydropower($450M)
72. Kato Secondary school
73. Monkey Mountain lapidary($16M)
74. New Mahdia Magistrate court($140M)
75. Outreach medical service at Monkey Mountain
76.  Tractor for Kato Secondary school
77.  Cryotherapy machine for Mahdia hospital.
78.  Resource centre for Mahdia Secondary School($1M)
79.  Electronic tablets for Kato Secondary School
80.  Water system for Paramakatoi

I will repeat and will continue to repeat ad nauseam: the PPP is ashamed of its record, hence the reason they do not speak about it or put it up to the electorate’s scrutiny. APNU+AFC are proud of their record, but recognise that you are their employers. You are their employers to determine if you are happy to give them a next five years. With the PPP’s continued reluctance to discuss their record, the choice is obvious– Forward ever, backward never with APNU+AFC.

Regards
Dr. Mark Devonish MBBS  MSc Med. Ed