Where is the Coalition SoP?
Dear Editor,
Kaieteur News – The Alliance on the Move Program broadcast in Berbice has now become a humorous version of ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and the only difference is that these presenters are oblivious to the fact that the AFC has been pronounced dead on more than one occasion. and buried deep a long time ago. It baffles the mind to say the least and is most pathetic watching Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan and Mrs. Cathy Hughes tries to convince Berbers that the PPP / C has rigged the 2020 Elections and that sugar is dead.
Furthermore, the young MP, Ms Juretha Fernandes was at a loss to add to their argument as she struggled to find the right words to say that the PPP / C had rigged the elections. She may in time be able to convincingly lie as her compadres, but I hate to see deliberate attempts to wean out promising young Guyanese into the PNC’s world of lies and fraud. The MP began reporting what happened at the Recount but never provided any example of rigging. He should follow in the footsteps of the many young and talented people like former MP Mr Reynard Ward, Mr Joel Edmond and Mr Michael Leonard just to name a few, who made their departure before being polluted by the PNC corruption brush.
Ramjattan and Hughes should explain the ‘rigging’ when the whole world has seen the Coalition’s numerous attempts to rig the Elections 2020. Those efforts are well documented. Where is the Coalition SoP? Their supporters have so far been denied the privilege of viewing these documents. The PPP / C introduced them even before the Recount began and was in line with the Recount results. That is also well documented and published for the world to consider. The AFC should use their parliamentary seats to support the Government and thus ‘save some face’ and save some respect for the Guyanese population. The spectacular legal challenges have done more harm than good to the image of the Coalition. The AFC should realize that Berbians, especially the rice farmers and sugar workers will never be fooled again. They had definitely proved this in the 2020 Elections.
The AFC can no longer convince anyone that they are of any relevance to Guyana’s political landscape. Even its main political partner in crime, the PNC can no longer deceive their supporters that the PPP / C has rigged the Elections now that they have seen that the PPP / C Government is effectively governing on behalf of all Guyanese. The racial discrimination practiced by the Coalition has been overturned and eliminated. All Guyanese are given equal opportunities and the Budget of 2021 ensured that all Guyanese received the real good life, not the fraud that exists on the Guyanese from the Coalition. Year after year for five years they made them, their families and friends ‘suck the blood’ of the taxpayers. Christopher Jones and Ramjattan deliberately removed this label in a vain attempt to fit the sugar workers, but everyone knows that the Coalition were the real ‘blood checkers’.
The sugar workers gave their blood, sweat, and tears to this country to transform it into a better place. Some paid the ultimate price by sacrificing their lives. Ramjattan and his panel on the Program denied that the harvesting of cans was human and akin to slavery. Probably, since a Ramjattan politician failed to read about the dignity of all forms of labor; John D Rockefeller Jr., had said ‘I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with the head or the hand.’ It is time for the AFC and PNC to learn to respect the sugar workers who take pride in doing their job. Any can cutter will boast that their job is independent and they love it. Ramjattan should understand better than most that Berbs love the fields. It was a manual labor award that made him a lawyer not unlike many others who have reached high levels, but some are indeed ungrateful. It will always require manual labor in a world where not everyone can be lawyers and doctors.
It was a height of call when Ramjattan struggled over the closure of the bread-crushing estates of more than 7,000 workers and their families, with their children becoming hungry and suffering severe deprivation, some even left the school. How can anyone justify such a move? He and Hughes barefootly submitted that the decision to close was the best decision. The AFC presenters lambasted the PPP / C decision to reopen the Estates and come to a very illogical conclusion that sugar will fail simply because of labor shortages. This showed how little they know about what’s happening at GUYSUCO. They should keep abreast of the various aspects of ongoing development, including the mechanization and value-added investments. At this point, there is no room for lies and propaganda – be a responsible Opposition. In conclusion, the AFC is simply vengeful because the sugar workers who made them powerful in 2015, have now realized the AFC’s deceit.
Truly,
Haseef Yusuf