Dear Editor,
THE rampant corruption that occurred under the A Partnership for National Unity plus Alliance for Change administration was brought to an end in 2020. Through the democratic process, the Guyanese people removed the former administration after a five-month delay. They had attempted to pervert the true will of the people of Guyana.

Since the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic Government entered office in August of 2020, numerous acts of corruption, nepotism and cronyism have been unearthed. The APNU+AFC which did little to nothing for Guyana and Guyanese grossly mismanaged this country and its resources. Their many acts of deliberate misappropriation of taxpayers’ money have seen many of them being brought before the courts on charges, and rightly so.

These acts along with their many other indiscretions resulted in the APNU+AFC facing a no-confidence motion three years into their tenure. The behaviour of those political leaders subsequent to the successful passage of the no-confidence motion in December 2018 left much to be desired. From 2020 to now the revelations of corruption have not astonished this letter writer.

Recently, during the examination of the Auditor General report of 2017, another example of rampant corruption surfaced. This time the Ministry of Education came onto the radar involving a fuel scandal.

Only last month, tension erupted between Jermaine Figueira, Chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), and the Senior Minister of Public Works Hon. Bishop Edghill. The senior minister was at that time seeking clarification into the sales of some derelict vehicles by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs also back in 2017. The ministers’ inquiry saw direct attempts to suppress information into the highly irregular sale that occurred when the APNU+AFC was in power.

Yours sincerely,
Alvin Hamilton