Dear Editor,
A while back Minister Charles Ramson came under fire by APNU+AFC cabalists and their media and NGO satellites because he decried the lack of role models in PNC/APNU+AFC supporting enclaves for young people to emulate. Typically, the divisive cabal made the contretemps into a race issue. The young minister, who had embarked on a multi-pronged approach to youth development countrywide, was touched and encouraged by the hunger displayed by youths who had been relegated to the periphery of existence during the APNU+AFC’s tenure in office. Ramson’s hands-on approach to youth development is transforming lives that were once hopelessly mired in poverty and even anti-social conduct.

The youngsters veered to the minister, who, together with recreational facilities, gave them hope for a better life and a brighter future, prompting young Ramson to utter those fateful words because their own leaders had clearly failed them by providing no opportunities for enhanced lifestyles and upward advancement and instead engaged in corrupt, self-serving/enrichment, vulgar displays, and unconstitutional, undemocratic actions.

Fast-forward to Wednesday, December 29, 2021, when events that transpired in Parliament vindicated Ramson’s assertion that PNC/APNU+AFC leaders provide no role models but the opposite instead. Subsequent to MPs returning to the National Assembly from a brief intermission on Wednesday afternoon after the Local Content Bill was successfully passed, members of the National Assembly were scheduled to debate the Natural Resource Fund Bill 2021 upon its resumption. Instead, true to their destructive, hypocritical, unpatriotic nature, opposition Members of Parliament attempted to halt the reading of the Natural Resource Fund Bill by the Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh.

The disruptive ruckus did not daunt the minister or the government Members of Parliament, because his colleagues ring-sided him, physically surrounding him, thus allowing him to continue his presentation of the bill. However, the cacophonous commotion took a sinister turn when the rabble, led by Opposition Member Annette Ferguson attempted to steal the Speaker’s Mace, which was heroically protected by a parliamentary staffer, who wrapped his arms and feet around the instrument, to taunts of “house negro”.

These, then, are the PNC/APNU/AFC role models, but the nation’s youths have become enlightened and no longer allow themselves to be misled into anti-social behaviour by self-serving, power-hungry ‘leaders,’ who have always led them astray. They are looking forward to a bright future with fulfilled promises of ‘the good life’ under the Irfaan Ali-led PPP/C Government.

Punitive consequences should ensue but maybe this was a plan for the Speaker to remove one of the disruptive elements from Parliament, paving the way for Norton to get a much-coveted seat.
Yours truly,
Alvin Hamilton