Dear Editor
CHARLES Ramson Jr, a member of the PPP, told Kaieteur News on February 5, 2020, that Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman should be removed from the APNU+AFC coalition candidates’ list because Global Witness, in a fake report that has been discredited internationally, speculated that Trotman negotiated a bad deal with ExxonMobil — a deal that the PPP originally messed up!

However, the said Global Witness report itself renders Ramson a foolish, flatfooted liar with acute “foot in mouth disease.” The report states unequivocally that no one in the government of Guyana committed any wrongdoing. Yet, Ramson, who is prone to fabricating vacuous and garrulous newspaper commentary, sought to traffic in deceit.
I’m not surprised at Ramson’s dishonest assertion. Lying and dishonesty are congenital character abnormalities that plague those in the upper echelon of the PPP. The party is infested with prevaricators and false pretenders. Ramson has such paucity of acumen that he failed to realise his hypocrisy and foot in mouth disease.

Raphael Trotman has made many entrances into courts over the years, but as an attorney at law, not as a criminal facing trial. Raphael Trotman has never been placed in the prisoners’ dock of the courts. But it is exactly in that very prisoners’ dock where prisoner Irfaan Ali stood as the magistrate read the 19 criminal charges against him, before he was released on bail. So how dare Ramson go there when his party’s “top man” is an alleged, bona fide fraudster?

PPP supporters should be aware that a person convicted of a crime is ineligible to be a candidate for president, and not waste their vote. I therefore call on the PPP to remove Irfaan Ali from its list of candidates for the March 2, 2020 general elections.

Regards
Rickford Burke