Dear Editor,
Only a short while ago, some of us were bemoaning the loss of our old time comedians and clowns, they helped lighten the burdens of life.
We remembered Sam Chase and Ted Roy, Habeeb Khan, The Link Shows, Archie, Bringing up Father Dagwood, and many of us may not access Comic- Com 2019- The Infamous Coltee
Thank God we now have a letter calling upon His Excellency President Granger and the cabinet to resign now. When I checked my calendar it wasn’t ‘All Fools Day’, so clearly citizens are now being offered free comedy to enliven their hearts.
If we are not to treat this recent foray as a joke, then the serious question is after the President and cabinet resigns who will steer the ship of state.
A few centuries earlier, thinkers proposed a perfect society with no common system- No Captain on Deck- to put the ship of society out to sea. This could not work and in our real world there must always be a helmsman with a crew.
The alternative is simply- anarchy- a recipe for confusion. My good friend Dr. Jagdeo, and he is my friend, ought to learn that at all times someone needs to be in charge of things.
His Excellency David Granger has been gracious and correct. The fact that he now Heads an Interim Government- it is a government nevertheless with clear guidelines and responsibilities. It is not our first interim government, we had 1953-1957. So let’s settle down, ensure we have a credible list, then on to Elections.
The other comic relief is the statement made by the Private Sector Commission to task the President. This group of gentlemen should state when and how the President has been in breach of the CCJ ruling, constitution and protocol.
From all we have heard the Private Sector Commission should remove its mask of being representative of the Private Sector and perhaps assume an acronym of Political Seeking Charlatans.
The now recent absurdity of the Private Sector Commission, writing to GECOM, an independent body, simply is reminiscent of that old gramophone picture of the terrier dog Nipper- listening- ‘His Master’s Voice’ – I wish not to liken the leaders of the Private Sector Commission to Nipper.
Where were all these leaders of the Private Sector Commission, when at GECOM, Mr. Gocool Boodoo employed ‘new maths’ in 2011 to nearly give the PPP the majority in parliament, not a squeak (forgive the pun), from these Honourable Gentlemen of the Private Sector Commission when they were established in 1992.
When the Private Sector Commission was supposed to uphold the lofty principles of democracy, justice and fair play. When Latchmansingh moved with bulldozers on African ancestral lands at Paradise, East Coast Demerara- not a word. When Winston Brassington seized the Luckhoo swimming pool, property of the Georgetown Municipality while I was Mayor, to build the Marriott, employing 100% Chinese labour- not a word of condemnation from these gentlemen. When state property was distributed by the pre- 2015 NICIL to a handpicked chosen few- not a word. This injustice was applauded by these gentlemen. When persons, not members of their tribe, were allocated lands, they did not chide the PPP leadership for what turns out to be not so subtle racism. When Shahid Roger Khan was in his ‘Rickitics’- not a word. I can fill volumes with the silence on matters of national importance and concern. There is the essay written about the sin of silence. I hope the Author of this assault on GECOM will explain the Private Sector Commission’s social myopia. The irony of this sad situation is that over time I developed an affection and deep regard for some of the leaders of the Private Sector Commission.
I hope that they can erase the perception that they are now guided or inspired by to serve the ill-founded contentions of the PPP. To help them, they can do well to read the recent article by Lincoln Lewis and former GDF officer Harripaul.
I would like to retain my affection and regard I have always held for the author of the letter to GECOM and other public statements made by others on behalf of the Private Sector Commission.
I still cling to my religious upbringing anchored in the firm conviction -the vilest sinner may return.
Yours faithfully,
Hamilton Green
