Dear Editor,
Over the past few days, I have had conversations with young Guyanese between 20 and 40 years old.
They have recognized the rape of our natural resources, particularly gold, oil and gas. Some read the excellent editorials and articles found in both the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News.
They recognized that there are fast becoming part of a growing underclass and that they are slowly but surely being re-colonized, meaning that we are on the brink of being exploited by the same people and attitudes that had our ancestors labour on the cotton and sugar plantations as slaves and indentured labourers.
History has shown that everywhere the colonizers were successful. Thanks to the cooperation, complicity and connivance of a small group of leaders in Africa and Asia, but particularly in the African sub-continent.
So in Guyana we have ambiguous statements by the PPP administration on the question of whether Exxon is recovering the 2% royalty from an oil block. What a wonderful place!
Will anything come out of the request by Leader of the Opposition and PNC Leader, Mr. Aubrey Norton to ask President Ali to require Vice-President Jagdeo to offer his resignation with respect to a suspicious but familiar sounding arrangement with a certain Mr. Su, Mr. Jagdeo’s tenant and neighbour and erstwhile friend? Just read the article “Guyana For Sale.”
Mr. Aubrey Norton is in order, when he made that request public, but young Aubrey must speak to the old political Gurus, like myself, to know that in the PPP, present and past, the General Secretary is the real Boss. End of story.
Greed, avarice and hunger for power are all-consuming.
In Guyana’s so called democracy, these traits are ever present, so Mr. Su will be sued. Three cheers for a slothful judicial system.
The Administration appoints the wife of the former Minister of Home Affairs, who was posted to a Diplomatic position while a dark cloud of concern hovered over his head.
In a truly democratic society, the Head of an Integrity Commission should be one whose credentials and connections are impeccable.
So the Commissioner of Police will investigate the circumstances that allowed the clumsy trailing of Mr. Aubrey Norton recently.
I am an optimist so let’s wait and see, but just before writing this letter I spoke with a 32 year old technician from the private sector who came to make a delivery at my home and he didn’t have an answer, when I said to him that, at his age, many of us were in the forefront fighting to end imperial exploitation.
He had no answer why there were not many of his age group fighting against this exploitation of our natural resources by a new breed of imperial masters supported by certain Guyanese Leaders.
I pointed out to him that I had put on the battle gear to win our Independence and that no matter what he may have heard of Forbes Burnham, had he been around the likes of Mr. Su and the likes of the giants of the gold and oil magnets could not, be as it appears to be calling the shots to a rather subservient administration purporting to speak on behalf of the people of Guyana.
Hamilton Green
Elder
