Charandass Event: Where are the moral standards?
Kaieteur News – I’ve known Charandass Persaud for a long time now; over 30 years. He is a personal friend; how close we are that he trusted me with the no confidence vote. I was in a vortex of rage when I saw PNC and AFC senators abusing Charran on his access to Parliament when he was convened at the Arthur Chung Conference Center last week.
You can clearly hear the delicate shades of PNC senator Annette Ferguson, and AFC’s Sherod Duncan as they accost Charran. Charran responds in shades so low that you think he is whispering in his seat during a movie in the cinema. Why did Charran feel homeless to get into Duncan’s face and tell him he should be investigated for his role as Chronicle manager.
I don’t know what Charran was thinking. I spoke to him while typing this passage and I do not think he should have been so disturbed. Did he think it would have looked bad in Guyana’s eyes if he had practiced tattooing for Duncan and Ferguson? Why would Charran worry how Guyanese would think of him? This nation has no standard for judging others.
Charran should look and see how people in this country behave the next day, they will be rewarded for their boring display. The examples are literally countless. The Pro Vice-Chancellor of the AS, Mellissa Ifill, worried what society might think of her when she wrote on her Facebook page that the view of the international observers on the election rigging was because they fell for PPP propaganda.
The exact woman in a letter to me last week in this newspaper condemned my criticism of people like her by claiming that I was fishing for earnings. Of course, she was angular for her earnings because during the election rigging, she was made Pro Vice-Chancellor. I’m still waiting for my earnings four months after the election rig ends. Can someone prove Dr Ifill right and give me my earnings?
Do you think Mike McCormack of the Guyana Human Rights Association cares what people say about him? He runs a fully maritime organization and brings it to life when publicity is to be gained. And he gets it from the Stabroek News. Do you think the Trabroek News might be bothered that it is constantly paying attention to an organization it doesn’t deserve?
Do you think that Dr. Alissa Trotz worries that there has been a year-long masquerade with the no confidence vote (NCV) and for five months there has been a systematic attempt to rig the 2020 election again as editor of the page, “In The Diaspora,” in the Stabroek News, we could find even one academic or commentator to write on the NCV or rigging? Do you think that Professor Clive Thomas would be in mental distress over what Guyanese people think of subjecting him to Guyana’s worst executive president, David Granger, and his complete silence on election rigging?
All the so-called civil society groups – SASOD, Red Thread, women’s rights entities, trade unions, business organizations – couldn’t be bothered with the nation’s reaction when they displayed their skeptical nature for the world to see. Do you think the people with money, status and power in this country would ever be concerned with how Guyanese think of them.
Trust me, tomorrow those people will turn up to the diplomatic cocktail circuit and the champagne will flow, the embrace will be warm. Trust me, when these people come to the supermarket, the manager comes up and shouts to the assistant to see that ‘Mr. This ‘or’ Mrs. That gets proper care. This is Guyana Charran, where you can find elephants faster than you can see moral values (whatever that means).
Charran told me that PNC senator Annette Ferguson and Duncan were outside the bathroom and as it turned out, they both poured a flurry of accusations using harsh shades. These are the kind of politicians that the PNC and AFC gave us after 2015 with the promise of being better than the PPP in all governance and political culture departments. It is clear to carrots that they will never be in government again.
Charran told me that he didn’t want tits for tattoos but that’s how he should be in Guyana. Sherod Duncan should be investigated. Let it pop into my face and motivate me for that statement. We will not retreat as Charran did. And I wouldn’t bother at least with what people say about my temples.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper.)