Dear Editor,

TRANSPARENCY was never totally transparent with any transparent government, be it Guyana, the Caribbean, North and South America, Europe or Asia. The PNC party’s administration (never mind the masquerade), rigged all the elections when they ruled, thus, perpetually lacked any scent or cent of transparency during their terms of governance.

They managed to successfully ruin the economy and derailed the process of progress despite Guyana’s rich resources. Mismanagement, misappropriation, misleading, misinterpretations, all these misses we can remise when reminiscing on the various degrees, forms, shapes and areas of intense skull doggery, tongue twisting, Tom foolery, lies, deceit and dishonesty. During their 28 frolicking and wasteful years of misadventure under Burnham and Hoyte, followed by the greedy and unscrupulous five years with Grainger, the small man never became a real man as promised.

Of course, all the government agencies were penetrated and staffed by Burnhamites and party card holders. Make no mistake, many devilish organisations were created to carry out the devious work of that party to create devastating effects on those not in support or in agreement with their agenda. So many told and untold stories remain unresolved for justice by so many oppressors who suffered at the hands of PNC goons. The recent skirmish over the fight for the mace in Parliament is a presentation of their story of desperation, frustration and impersonation. Their half-hearted argument for the better half of 65 is an applaudable amplification of abomination and aberration.

How can the high level of intelligence by so many intellectuals be so misguided and unfounded to cause an entire party to be the world’s greatest laughing stock for nonsense? And now, the very men and women want to debate education and economics in Parliament over the current budget presentation? It was the same pilferers who tried to deny the smooth process of an elected PPP/C party to occupy their rightful place as a duly elected legal government after the March 2020 election with their fiasco, dragging a just result for a five-month prolonged wait.

After stifling justice to take its legal course and preventing the Constitution from being functional, they now want to question the law of the land? A hat trick at the CCJ, suffering unabashed losses, has no meaning of shame and disgrace for the PNC party. Lest we forget who were the strife makers who went to Berbice and spread racial discrimination to incite innocent bystanders to resort to doing the PNC’s dirty work?

Giving themselves expensive gifts and accepting mammoth perks, strained an economy to always be in bankruptcy. Closing estates and taking away food from children’s mouths will forever be embedded in the lives of sugar cane workers. Why cower now and trying to enter through the back door to embellish the lives for those who were previously trampled on deliberately? The Auditor-General has always been at his wits end when conducting audits during PNC’s tenureship for the simple reason of being unable to find pertinent records to support various transactions. The raping of the Treasury is a classic example of the carnivorous appetite for jackals whose nature surpasses that of scavengers. But the arm of the law is never short and will eventually rope in all those who have escaped the net so far.

Respectfully,
Jai Lall