Dear Editor,
These last three years, as this Granger team controlled the levers of power, they used the opportunity to place a heavier burden on the people. More debt, less disposable income, less innovative public policies and an environment of indecision that makes a sloth looks like he is a cheetah.
It was Guyana that led the Caribbean in many respects in the past. Let me remind the readers of one facet of human development where Guyana was on the leadership front – workers’ rights. It was Jagan’s dream to have such rights enshrined in law since 1953 when he put forward the Labour Relations Bill. That proposed law was designed to empower trade unions and the right of workers to choose their representative at the point of production. It finally culminated in Termination of Employment and Severance Pay Act of 1997, which was more advanced than anything the Caribbean had ever seen. Yet today we see that this very law was trampled upon by this PNC-led Granger gang who decided they shall delay the payment of severance to the sugar workers in clear violation of the law. It took the courts to force them to pay. What a shame!
This pattern continues today. The law says no dual citizens in the National Assembly as elected members but yet the PNC continue to impose four declared dual citizens on the people and I was told that two more are still in the closet. I am happy that come April 12, all of the PPP dual citizens will be gone from their list. What about the PNC ones?
For the record, I have no problem with dual citizens serving. I am actually very much in support of all Guyanese sons and daughters serving but not in sin and against the law. If you want Mr Greenidge as your Foreign Affairs Minister, then reach out to the PPP and change the law, stupid!
In May 2015, you had been given a golden opportunity by the youths, elements of the sugar industry and a small group of urban Indo-Guyanese to do better at health, housing and education and all you did was deliver an “F” Grade performance that has brought great hardship on the youths of the land. Today more of our students are failing elementary Mathematics than ever before in the entire history of independent Guyana. That is the Granger record.
The majority of people that I spoke to in March 2019 all across the coastal belt have told me that they have lost faith in Mr Granger and his ability to deliver on what he promised. Many are so anxious today about the fact that a world of traditional Guyanese peace is about to be shattered all because this Granger gang does not know what it means to operate in a world of democracy, justice, and freedom. And yes, a world of happiness. You see, you cannot talk about happiness, you have to “do” happiness and that comes with hard work. That is an alien ideology to Team Granger. These people cannot do happiness because all they are doing all day is conniving and scheming around this ambition to stay in power illegitimately.
My dear Guyanese brothers and sisters, this is the Guyana we did not plan for when our fore parents were planning for independence. They were planning for one people, one nation with one destiny, not 16 of the 17 Permanent Secretaries being from one group and all other groups shut out from appointments to higher offices and the PNC leaders telling the nation that they only “hiring PNC people”.
The job is not over, but all these anti-democratic, anti-Guyanese, anti-national attitudes of the Granger gang must be conquered and indeed we shall conquer. This Granger Team is all about pageantry, idle statements, and show.
We have had enough of their bogus tactics. Get on with calling the elections and listen carefully to the voice of the people as they speak. You will be surprised by how smart the Guyanese voters are.
Regards,
Sasenarine Singh
