Dear Editor,
It never ceases to amaze me what political partisanship in this country will produce. Pastor W P Jeffrey’s missive titled ‘The government must be taking the gamble of principle over expediency’ (SN, Nov 18) is a troubling intellectual analysis rooted in moral expediency. I see this as political partiality, particularly when the Pastor seems, from his own admission in the letter, to be a kind of APNU backer who attends Congress Place.
How could anyone in their right mind call a massive salary increase for an under-performing government four months on the job “principled?” How is it principled to stack a government full of geriatric comrades with long histories of incompetence and failure? Is it principled to reward and enrich (with a 50% salary increase) old friends at the expense of the country’s advancement and by forsaking its younger competent populace? Has Pastor Jeffrey not seen the visible inertia from this cabal of old buddies running the show? Has the incompetence and dismal performance of this government since the election been lost on him? Has the Pastor blinded himself to the moves to sideline young APNU leaders like Sharma Solomon? For young people, there is no turn to wait at this rate. At this rate, this present regime is heading to political oblivion in 2020 and the greater tragedy is not their disappearance, it is the fact that they will make the Jagdeo government reappear. Pastor Jeffrey should stop this intellectual chicanery and call a spade a spade and let this country advance.
Yours faithfully,
M Maxwell
