Isn’t this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?  

Dear Editor,
When Cathy Hughes rose to make her presentation in the Parliament on August 4th, 2017, she made it clear that the bill defines the powers and functions of the original Broadcasting Laws.  These are all understandable concepts.
She then said, “Guyana has to move forward from the days of ethnic division”, and I welcome this position also.
Where is Mrs Hughes’s conscience when, under this Granger Administration, there are umpteen examples of a preponderance of appointments across the public services that are steeped in an outcome that emboldens ethnic supremacy?  One has only to look at the list of Heads of Departments, Permanent Secretaries, District Education Officers, the heads of the hospitals and other senior functionaries in the public service, who were appointed since this Granger Administration assumed office, and one can identify a clear act of centralised suppression of a targeted segment of the Guyanese population.
Is Mrs. Hughes disingenuous in making this call?
She also stated that this amendment to the bill was designed to organise “civilized discourse and debate”, but in the very next breath, in her statement, she went into what many would consider an uncivilised discourse, with no objection from an increasingly biased Speaker of the National Assembly.
Why is there need for such raw, unadulterated, gutter politics in that venerable and rather magnificent institution? Those who forget history will always struggle to develop the future. This is clearly what is happening in Guyana in 2017, and the GDP figures at 2% do tell a full story.
The Good Book admonishes us: “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind…” Where was Mrs Hughes’s humility of mind demonstrated as she forced this ill-conceived and ill-thought-out piece of legislation down the Guyanese people’s throat with much haste?
She should really pay more attention to the needs of the ordinary people, rather than the needs of the small Granger cabal. One last point: my brother Enrico Woolford is reputed to be the Editor-in-Chief and alleged majority owner of Capitol News.  But today he is also a key influencer in the Ministry of Public Telecommunications, as one of the three Ministerial Advisors to Mrs Hughes; and he shared in the annual payout of some Gy million in 2016.  So, will persons inside the Ministry of Public Telecommunications who are tasked with influencing the Minister but have a vested interest in Capitol News steer licences to this news outfit using insider information? Isn’t this a conflict of interest situation? Isn’t this a “friends and family arrangement” too?  Isn’t this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?  Or is this the big hustle in favour of the Granger cabal, compliments of the taxpayers of Guyana, with the now washed out strategy of blaming the PPP for all of their current-day indiscretions?

Regards,
Sase Singh