Dear Editor,
Hydar Ally’s letter dated October 27, titled ‘The performance of the agricultural sector under the PNC was dismal’ is a familiar broken record. It keeps playing over and over again. It is the product of mangled minds trapped and incapable of breaking free. Mr Ally and others of his ilk within the PPP and PNC and a few in the AFC know no other tune. So they continue to insult the intelligence of the Guyanese people. They continue to insult the intelligence of their own constituencies. The catastrophes of the PPP cannot be erased or minimized by simply repeating the word ‘PNC’ at every turn. Similarly, the devastation wrought by the PNC cannot be erased and minimized by uttering the word ‘PPP’ at every opportunity. They have both failed. They got 28 years and 18 years respectively and have been very similar in the manner in which they wrecked this nation.
So Mr Ally must keep on insulting the PPP supporters and the nation. He must continue telling us things we already know and could hardly care about now that we are living and struggling in the present. The PPP has been running the show for the past 18 years. They are the present. So what does the PNC’s dismal performance on agriculture for 28 years have to do with the PPP’s failure in agriculture for 18 years? Was the abject PNC running the country for the past 18 years? Did the PNC spend the US$200 million on the Skeldon sugar factory? Did the PNC supervise the decline of the sugar industry over the past 18 years? Is the decline of agriculture in the past 18 years to be blamed on the PNC? Every administration must be judged by its own performance not the performance of a previous failed administration. Maybe the PPP wants us to engage in comparing failures and to conclude that because it failed less than the PNC it is better. A failure is a failure, no matter how you dress it up. Stop telling us: “The agricultural sector has enormous potential not only to feed the nation but to supply the regional markets, and in so doing to contribute significantly to the well-being of our farmers and the society as a whole.” Start delivering on that potential.
Yours faithfully,
M Maxwell
