Dear Editor,
Put the names and enterprises in a building block arrangement, and something becomes immediately undeniably clear. It is that Guyana is a museum of the sordid and the horrific, as it houses banditry, attempted banditry, and banditry by association. It is what passes for governance here and financial stewardship by the PPP.
Start with Amaila Falls, fly with EZ Jet, conceal skullduggery in solid waste management, and build friendship with a real estate magnate, now convicted felon, and there is this endless pantheon of the unspeakably corrupt and the blatantly criminal. As if this is not enough, now comes Mr Moneybags in Puerto Rico.
If anybody believes, even for a moment, that those dollars are his, then such citizens ought to be institutionalized. More to the point look closely and there is a common connection, a common denominator, a common facilitator, and a common presence to all of this. I implore Guyanese to ignore a meaning associated with ‘common’ and focus on the common bloodline and sponsor in most, if not all, of these shabby suspicious undertakings. What does this say about enrichment and criminality at the highest levels? But this is only one question among others.
What are the sources of all these monies? Where is the destination(s) for all the cash grabbed from here and compiled elsewhere? Who is on the waiting receiving end? What are the businesses involved? Are Guyanese so wilfully blind that they refuse to see the visible hand and now believed invisible presence in all of this? And, last, how much longer will Guyana and Guyanese be willing to be taken for a ride and seek to let all matters slide?
Yours faithfully,
GHK Lall
