In opposition, APNU and the AFC were vehemently condemnatory of PPP/C corruption, incompetence, undemocratic behaviour, etc. If anyone had then told me that less than two years into the life of an APNU+AFC government, similar-type perceptions of it would have reached the stage where even some of its staunchest supporters are shaking their heads in wonderment, I would have listened but not believed.
‘The historic APNU-AFC Coalition’s first 15 months has been a journey through fields of mediocrity, banality, corruptibility and utter bewilderment. How a government can drift from one jejune, embarrassing, self-destructive mistake to another without even a week of illumination and thoughtful direction for 15 consecutive months is beyond one’s imagination. But there is a big BUT. But despite the concatenation of flaws, faults, and failures in the first 15 months of the Coalition Government, there is no parallel in Caribbean politics for what took place for 15 years under Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar in Guyana’ (Freddie Kissoon column, KN, September 4.)
The opposition PPP/C is in clover as it gleefully tabulates the wrongdoings of the coalition government. Ms. Gail Teixiera has detailed what she calls ‘15 scandalous scandals and scams’, included in which controversies are surrounding large ministerial salary increases; the specialty
