Dear Editor,
Alissa Trotz has been a brilliant scholar and I assume enjoys a successful professional career.
Indeed her previous written press interventions have been good reading but I find her letter in the Stabroek News of March 13, 2012 out of line with reasoned thinking and allowed myself to reflect on the motivation. Regrettably I remember writing previously about certain professionals who have lived though the turbulent years of PNC dictatorship and who still remain adamantly opposed to any PPP ruling administration and which I attributed to racial thinking.
Somehow Alissa definitely propelled herself into deep political water and found herself in trouble when she opined “What people are concerned with today is what Ashni Singh will propose to do with Guyana taxpayers’ money now, what accountability and timeliness mean to him as Finance Minister today”… Well dear Alissa, this is exactly what Dr. Ashni Singh has been doing for the last 12 or more budgets including joining with all Guyanese in a detailed examination of the country’s finances. So what else is new? The new composition of parliament will now afford the earned prerogative of the minority political parties to sound off to the fullest of their desires and to impact meaningfully on the ultimate fate of measures brought to the parliament but instead what you have is what you state: “people are now quite frankly sick and tired of what passes for politics in Guyana” but quite frankly Alissa who is to be blamed for this? Snide remarks like “or is it that Minister Singh needs to keep us distracted because there is truly something to hide?” will not move us forward.
Yours faithfully,
David de Groot
