From breadbasket to basket case

Dear Editor,
I watched the programme Spotlight on Channel 9 where Dr Waldron was discussing Burnham’s vision with two other persons on Thursday, August 7.

Both participants were trying to find something nice to talk about Burnham’s vision. One said Burnham wanted to make Guyana the food basket of the Caribbean. What he probably does not know is that Guyana was the food basket of the Caribbean before Forbes got political power and he turned Guyana into the basket case of the Caribbean.
The other one said Burnham did not get the support of the opposition, but probably she does not know he did not want the support of the opposition and kept them out by fraud and terror.

It was further mentioned that when a Guyana delegation went abroad he saw to it that the delegation was mixed to represent the races. Well again I am certain those two persons on Spotlight did not see the people who represented us at the Expo 69 in the Caribbean – all African.

I also wonder what vision he had to destroy the first railway in South America.
Most likely those persons on Spotlight saw Burnham’s vision as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  LFSB’s vision was one thing and one thing only, raw undiluted power at all or any cost. I am certain the Rodney family can bear that out.
Yours faithfully,
W.P. George

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