Dear Editor,

I’ve raised the question of dual citizenship and giving the same rights to the diaspora before Peter Ramsaroop or Khemraj Ramjattan  or Sheila Holder addressed the issue. I have an email response from Mr Donald Ramotar who cunningly failed to address the issue as well as one from Mr Oma Shewdatt of the AFC who danced around the issue when I wrote to these gentlemen.

To me it is crystal clear. The diaspora contributes so much to Guyana that to maintain the law which excludes them from truly having a say in Guyana is insulting.  Of course our people in Guyana have a backward mentality. Especially our politicians. They love the fact that Barack Obama will be the President of the USA. Good for him. Barack Obama is a good man who means well. We really don’t have many people like him in the world any more.
But Barack Obama only became the President-elect because people embraced change. Barack Obama did not get elected because of black people. America’s blacks only make up approximately 12% of the population. It is the young, white, college population which is responsible for Barack Obama entering the White House on January 20, 2009. These are the people who are definitely not backward like their Guyanese counterparts or the rest of the Guyanese population for that matter.

I’m getting blue commenting on the issue. I really don’t have much more to say on it. All the Guyanese population and their government will continue to say is, give us your money but shut your mouth and don’t interfere. This will continue until the PPP loses an election in the near future. The PPP seems to have forgotten the role the diaspora played in returning them to power.

Yours faithfully,
Ganesh Singh