Dear Editor,
Please allow me to share my views once again on the recent strike action taken by cane harvesters who were attached to the Rose Hall Estate, Canje, Berbice, and were transferred to work at the Blairmont and Albion Estates.
First, it’s a shame and disgrace when people try to use those that they kicked for political or any other purpose in order to seek milage or gains, and trying to be relevant to those that believe in them, by now showing that they care!
Those workers are being misled by the shameless group of people that once called themselves the AFC, but we know they are all puppets of the PNC.
The AFC is not a political party in this country anymore. They are irrelevant in this land and they have to contest in any future elections under the PNC umbrella to ensure some of them remain or become MP.
During the recent strike action by those cane harvesters, it was evident that some of the AFC (PNC) members were at the forefront (based on the evidence aired by local media houses), spilling utter trash to the workers as to why they needed to continue the strike action.
I said before in a recent letter that the strike is uncalled for and has no merit and I stand by my statement.
In a recent statement on social media, I saw Cathy Hughes reminding us that it was Dr Bharrat Jagdeo who closed a few estates during his tenure as President.
What is her point exactly?
Cathy Hughes failed as always to tell us the truth and the post she made has no merit now because it was in that same post she named the estates which Jagdeo closed down, the APNU and AFC, used as their main campaign topic during the 2015 elections.
She failed to address the matter at hand pertaining to the current strike action because it wasn’t the PPP or Jagdeo that closed down the Rose Hall Estate and sent those workers to the Albion and Blairmont Estates.
Cathy Hughes failed to tell the truth of the matter, and in her true PNC deceptive style, she tried to gain the attention of the people.
The people of Guyana are no fools, Cathy Hughes!
It was your party members, the former Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who I always refer to as the conniving snake, and Khemraj Ramjattan who campaigned in 2015 and shouted out to the sugar workers, their families, relatives, friends, supporters, Guyana, and the world, that if the coalition is elected to office, no estate would be closed, and that they are going to make sugar profitable again.
They said sugar workers would not be sent home and, they would have a good life because the APNU/AFC would competently manage the estates.
They made tons of promises to the sugar workers so as to get their votes and what happened after they got into office?
The sugar workers received ‘katahar’, as we would say in Guyana terms.
I reiterate that it was the previous APNU/AFC Government that closed the Rose Hall Estate.
It was the previous APNU/AFC Government that sent home workers, saying they were downsizing the industry because it was not profitable.
It was the previous Government that transferred those workers to the Albion and Blairmont estates.
It was Nagamootoo aka conniving snake that boasted how he chaired Cabinet meetings. It was him that allowed the Cabinet to vote in favour of downsizing the sugar industry, and I believe he had the support of all of the AFC Cabinet members in the decision-making.
After that decision, the conniving snake ceased going to Berbice because he knew what he did to the lives of the sugar workers and their families. He was ashamed that he sold out the workers.
The man couldn’t face the people of Berbice and had to send his security guards in three cars to collect his weekly fresh bora and shrimp in the Ancient County.
He then ordered Ramjattan to go on television weekly in Berbice and belittle the PPP, and tell the workers that was the best decision the Government could have made because sugar is not profitable.
Ramjattan did as was told to do and even tried keeping meetings but was ‘cussed out’ by the workers.
Ramjattan sat in Parliament and belittled the workers by telling the then-Opposition PPP that “ayo want us to pump more monies, pump more monies, pump more monies in the sugar industry to benefit ayo people.”
That same Ramjattan went to Berbice to meet the sugar workers that are on strike and failed to tell them that he and that conniving snake Nagamootoo helped to create distress for sugar workers from 2015 until this day.
Ramjattan is shameless to turn and blame the PPP for what the PNC did by closing the estates and transferring the workers.
The workers on strike, who I assume are PNC supporters, believe what Ramjattan told them but didn’t even open their mouths to tell him that he created the predicament!
Those workers need to educate themselves and cuss out the presence and utterances of the AFC people who are doing the dirty work to please their PNC masters.
They are a pack of shameless people who call themselves AFC and allow their minds to be polluted by the PNC.
I appeal to the workers in the sugar industry not to be fooled by that pack of jokers, because they don’t have anything to offer as a political party. If they want to challenge me by proving that they have any sort of relevance in Guyana today, then they can contest the 2025 elections as the AFC.
I bet that none of them would ever see or enter Parliament again.
Cathy Hughes and the pack of shameless people have to continue bowing down to the PNC in order to get political relevance!
With regards,
Abel Seetaram
