Dear Editor,
Parliament and the daily papers have always been the arena for political football to become the bone of contention, indulging in controversies, debates, verbal fireworks, and even physical explosions.
In December 2021, a Parliamentary staffer and personal assistant to the Speaker of the House was the subject of physical and verbal abuse when PNC Opposition members attacked the employee in an attempt to seize the Mace.
During a 2023 presidential outreach, the opposition press even claimed that a reporter was the subject of attempted harassment. On a regular basis, the media often misinterpret information for the sake of misguiding the innocent and creating marketable opportunity.
The worrisome war of wits, words, wisdom and wickedness weaken and also weaponize the PNC as they struggle to battle their sustenance for worth. A clueless leader continues to run around searching for an identity of significance while grounding himself in delusive content. His personal imposition (no fault of the public) may become an impediment for his incumbency. Meanwhile, the PNC, their surrogates and affiliates align themselves to tongue twisting while maligning themselves to contortions and distortions of facts and figures in order to gain support from their disgruntled constituency. A common trend has been the exaggeration of falsified claims unsupported by any evidence.
The PNC’s propaganda campaign is a camouflage to hide their deficiencies, weaknesses and limitations. Consistent with their mantra to deceive and conceal the truth, they allude to a program of counter attacking with criticisms, painting the opposite picture, hyper inflate the logistics of any possibility, and demanding the execution of the improbable. Not to overlook, they also lean heavily on their overseas-based counterparts to unleash vicious attacks behind hidden locations. In addition, they use foreign officials in the higher ranks, who are part of their “kith and kin”, to influence other dignitaries to perpetuate their opinions, misrepresentations and falsifications. Using international forum, this artery has been a source of poisonous presentations, not caring about the decorum of the country itself to which they belong, hopefully.
In order to prove the sharpness of their metal and convince their particular supporters that the PNC is a party qualified to fight for their direct rights and defend their hereditary cause, they unscrupulously ignite the flame of racism and dishearteningly propagate discrimination for unequal treatment. This has extended to dominating the streets with exited incense translated into the practice of violent behaviour. Party leaders were guilty of this insinuation when they misled crowds at wake-houses and misdirected gatherings at market areas. Those incidents have scorched the victims of torture and left uncompensated damages to be borne by members of one ethnicity. The PNC have scored uncreditable points during those skirmishes, and have managed to only strengthen the notion of their disreputableness.
Recalling the last Budget Debate, when the one-track- minded elements of the Opposition reflected their negative approach and their enthusiasm to stifle Guyana’s economic growth was transparent, it simply endorsed that the Opposition is callous and irresponsible of forging the interest of Guyanese.
The PNC’s open agenda is riddled with vile, venom and vexatious vicissitudes. Engrained in the defects of Burnham dictatorship, his successors have proven that their sole commitment is towards the indignity of selfishness and greed. On regaining governance in 2015, the first thing the PNC did was to fatten the salaries of their MPs by a 50% increase, and directed that the rest of the public service receive nothing. Taking away the Christmas bonus from the Joint Services was adding salt to the wound during their miserable reign.
The previous administration meticulously designed a careful program to ravage the quality of standard Guyanese were enjoying prior to 2015. The “sanctimonious gangster” ensured that Guyanese were burdened with hundreds of appropriate taxes, which would ensure that a certain stream filled the PNC’s coffers which they can then enjoy while the others were left to endure in an appalling state. The raped Treasury was left empty and cold in 2020. Denying the school children their Cash Grants was indeed an act of insensitive responsibility. That’s what the PNC meant when they referred to the small man becoming the real man and living the good life!
From the many sittings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), it is evident from the scrutinised reports that mischief was afoot when the previous administration was running the affairs of the country. The PNC Government twice led this country into bankruptcy, poverty, corruption and economic failure through mismanagement. The state auditors have not failed to address their undertakings, but encountered tremendous difficulties in performing their required tasks to adequately complete their audits due to incomplete or unavailable records and/or destroyed documents.
The word “trust” is a foreign language to the PNC, and alienated from their vocabulary. Their dubious DNA is decorated with the colours of deceit, dishonesty and double-dealing discomforts.
The PNC has engineered an oil contract in which they have agreed to sell out the birth rights of Guyanese and allow foreigners to reap the benefits of Guyana’s gold, both liquid and solid. Hiding the US18 million signing bonus from the Guyanese public confirmed their true intention and real colour.
The Brutus-type PNC did back stab the sugar workers when they closed the sugar estates and left thousands on the breadline, after faithfully promising to keep sugar alive!
On a perpetual basis, the PNC has undermined the confidence of Guyanese at home and abroad. They have made a mockery of the international community with their daring attempt to rig the 2020 Election in front of their eyes. By using their wisdom and wits wastefully, they have watered their chance for re-election, and Guyanese can no longer be convinced of any integrity because of their wicked words, deeds and actions.
Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall
