Dear Editor,
Dreams die hard for the Grangers of this world and so it is for the retired Brigadier. Granger swore of his membership of the PNC during his military career when competing with Carl Greenidge for the leadership of the PNC. Somehow he felt that membership in the PNC was not incompatible with his oath as an officer of the GDF. I guess it would be too hard now to ask the General Secretary of the PNC to confirm whether indeed Mr Granger had been a member of the PNC while in the military.
But the Burnhamite policies he now advocates point to his intellectual mentor. Like many Latin American political organisations, the APNU has increasingly become openly military run.
Its leaders are formally retired military officers and their military minds are forever at work. Like Burnham, Mr Granger craves power, but he has never acknowledged nor repented Burnhamite PNC government excesses, and as he conducts his political campaign, Guyanese can see why his dream is to reintroduce these policies. His dream is to succeed where Burnham failed. Like Burnham, he embraces the military. He would start with the youths and their return to National Service.
He plans to nationalise the privately owned and run Berbice River Bridge Company. He has used APNU in the entire 10th Parliament to delay, frustrate and prevent the development of Guyana. He was prepared to destroy Guyana’s gains if he could not get his way. Burnham held on to his policies and doomed Guyana. He died in office. It is a great pity that Mr Granger’s dreams of Burnham policies did not die then too.
So today Guyana is faced with an aging Burnhamite follower planning to plunge Guyana into the past, a past of failed policies.
Yours faithfully,
Roger Luncheon
Head, Presidential Secretariat
