Dear Editor,
Mr Barrington Braithwaite in a letter to SN on November 27 titled ‘Only APNU has the expertise to rescue this nation‘ confirms the attitude of those who form the PNC in APNU, ie that they alone have the solutions to Guyana’s problems. This is cause for concern because of the arrogance it suggests. I am surprised that SN did not publish my response even as a blog.
But Mr Braithwaite is in good company with Dr David Hinds (who has had several letters in SN lately) and Mr Tacuma Ogunseye. Who can blame them in championing African causes? None of my letters responding to them found acceptance to be published in SN which gave them a platform. That’s freedom of the press and I accept it with respectful disagreement.
Mr Braithwaite says, “I have chosen not to mention what is now public conversation, so as to establish the obsolescence of a political cult which has survived because of a numerical anomaly.” SN allows Mr Braithwaite to now portray the PPP/C as a cult. Isn’t something really wrong when people are not free to make independent choices in an election?
Mr Braithwaite is even more contemptuous of those who for “personal gain… surrendered (some compromised by their own shortcomings) to the PPP/C.”
Yours faithfully,
Sultan Mohamed
Editor’s note
Recently Mr Mohamed sent a letter in response to Dr Hinds’ published correspondence, but it was almost seven pages long, and could not therefore be entertained in the letters column. We emailed him to that effect, asking him to reduce it to letter length. It was sent back to us, but was still far too long to be accommodated, and so was not published for that reason.
