So far Parts 1 & 2 of this four-part series of columns have argued that the proximate or immediately precipitating factor driving the multifaceted crises which have emerged in Guyana today, stems from the unprecedented torrent of financial lawlessness, abuses and irregularities unleashed by the minority PPP/C executive, which came into office following the November 2011 national elections. Evidence in support of this contention has been presented and further I have already listed the ten most egregious of these abuses. This was then followed by the argument that prorogation of the National Assembly signals a marked worsening of authoritarianism in the Guyana state, so severe as to take it beyond my earlier categorization of the state as principally a vehicle for the pursuit of criminal endeavours by those in control.
At that point I introduced three postulates to support this contention; namely, 1) the illegality/unconstitutionality of the Presidential prorogation; 2) the subversive and terroristic implications arising from the Nandlall taped conversation with Kaieteur News (KN); 3) the prorogation (and consequent closure of the National Assembly) substantially enlarges the opportunities for executive financial abuses. These postulates framed my main proposition that two changes for the worse have been set in train namely, 1) the incorporation of state terrorism into the political armoury of the ruling PPP/C; and 2) the fire sale of Guyana’s national resources in order to expand the public resources made available through the PPP/C for private plunder.
Today’s column focuses on these two changes for the worse, which take the Guyana state beyond my
