No confidence – a lifetime later
Kaieteur News – Two years after that fateful motion of no confidence (NCM), the Democratic Republic of Guyana is in full swing. In some ways, it’s a different place, some for good and some that will be expensive. In other respects, it is too much of the old ways that old heads are plotting new fraud.
The nation has a new government, hears about a new bridge, new roads, and countless new plant projects to power civilization forward in Guyana.
It is of a nation in motion, though somehow only a few of the specially selected make the whole move: cronies, the stage contenders, even political. The elite of the organization moves and monopoly swirling silver cascades. There is the heady atmosphere of binge drinking. This one comes from borrowing in the tens of billions. The aggregate hundreds of billions are not free; but they provide the opportunities for luxury self-help we have had before. In this Guyanese democracy, half tells himself he will be happy, while the other is scrambling for anything small.
Dark clouds encroach on the glittering paintings, which should be warned. In the new Guyana, the independent media is important, which should be a good thing, as it together floats on both the cribs of democracy and oil. Things are rather up and down and not as they should be, as it has become undeniable that the party has turned into a media framework. The party is in various forms: the ideological (cash on the barrel and in advance, keep quiet); the racist (speak for yourself only, the others alone); the commercial (what is good for the individual and the class). The so-called free media refuses to tell the people the truths about what is happening with its greatest legacy, this nation-owned oil.
The grassroots class may think that it counts, that it is represented. He is deceiving himself, for it is the group who is trampled, deceived and used, and who says how good things are, who have never had it this way before . Call the grassroots whatever suits, its members are happy to be involved in the cheating act.
In Guyana today, truth is farted, then repackaged and sold to the naïve and the gullible. Here’s how the main corporate powers operate, which includes ExxonMobil, Guyana’s carefully-appointed presence and savings partner.
The politicians were already in luggage and tagged, safely sheltered by the silence in what they were paid. Citizens are encouraged to pay attention, then decide whether silence reigns supreme. The talkative government of PPP / C and its leaders all suffer from a case of acute laryngitis. There’s not even a crack coming on oil issues. This is what cash pays for, and the more millions in Uncle Sam’s dollars, the more intense the silence. It is such a national outrage of cowardice in this once loud and nonverbal democracy that even the aggressive APNU coalition is usually a shadow of itself. Its leaders, too, swallow hard and try to say something soothing, but a gurgle doesn’t even come.
As it becomes more studied, it becomes clear that Guyanese live in a time of misleading thunderous silence. Yes, sounds are isolated from a bit of disagreement, but the heavyweight voices and presidents have slipped into a snakelike silence where this country’s oil wealth is at stake. That costs good money, and there’s nothing better than a power like Exxon to make good things happen, and rock the influential to sing not a thing. Those who need confirmation listen in vain for sharp voices that rail against Exxon’s presence and reach. There are very few such voices. The legal eagles are bought out, just like political players. Breaking from the bottomless and generous trough will do that to the best and brightest, who sell themselves and land down the drain for the joy of being on the oil track inside. They could learn about the right way, the patriotic way, from people named Lynch, Quinn, and Chatterjee.
After no confidence, this nation is ready for what could be very good. The trouble is that some really bad people lead the way down.