Let’s stop blowing our own trumpet. Let us call an election and win by a landslide

Dear Editor,
Please allow me to join in publicly congratulating the APNU/AFC coalition as it celebrates three years in service to the people of this country. The fact that this Government, in spite of its razor thin majority, was able to achieve (and deliver) so much in such a short time is due to the vision and political acumen of the charismatic leader of the coalition, His Excellency President David Granger.
His “Buses, Boots, Bicycles, Breakfast and Boats” (5Bs) Initiative has not only taken alliteration to a whole new level, but is unique, visionary, and certainty deserving of a Nobel prize.
There are the cynics among us who are asking, “Since when life revolves around the second letter in the alphabet only”? To those people of little faith, I say let’s take it one letter at a time. Come 2019, it will be “clothes, colognes, cars, champagne and caviar”.
President Granger is undoubtedly the greatest president our country has ever produced (may ever had), and I am bewildered as to why not a single university in this world has seen it fit (and proper) to bestow upon him an honorary degree as yet.
I am reminded that our former president was conferred with no less than three honorary degrees by universities from around the world. This man was named a “Champion of the Earth”, featured on Hard Talk on the BBC television, and had a significant appointment at the World Bank. I tell myself that those universities, the folks at the BBC and the World Bank etc, were not only misguided, but myopic as well; and their reputations (by their association and deeds) leave much to be desired. Shame on them all…
I also wish to applaud this Government for being a caring Government. Construction of the edifice at D’Urban Park tops the list in this regard, as shelter is now being provided for the destitute and for citizens of unsound mind. I am at pains to explain to the critics of this caring Government that the primary motive behind the decision to close the sugar estates was not to put sugar workers out of jobs, but rather to ensure that the wives of sugar workers get adequate sleep. It is called breaking eggs to get omelettes. No longer do these overworked women have to get out of bed at 4 O’ clock to prepare breakfast and lunch for their husbands. Increase in rest will see these rural folks living longer and healthier lives.
On behalf of these grateful folks, I say, ‘Thank you’.
Mr Editor, I also wish to recognise and applaud the sound economic policies implemented by this brilliant Government. The massive increase in the salaries of ministers has seen increased spending in the local economy, which has resulted in sustained economic growth.
The seawall roundabout will see a spike in tourist arrivals, as, no doubt, millions will flock to see and experience our ultra-modern capital city. The overhead walkways on the East Bank highway will also bring in much needed revenue, as pedestrians continue to transgress. The deal with ExxonMobil was great, for I see things differently from the critics. I am consoled by the fact that 2% of a loaf is much better than no loaf at all. Unless my math is poor, I know that if you negotiate for 2% from 50 foreign investors, you will get 100% for the nation. Am I correct??
I appreciate the fact that efforts have been made to tackle the high levels of unemployment which this Government had inherited from the previous administration. Though more can be done (and no doubt will be done), the fact that dozens of commissions of inquiry were set up (thus creating employment) tells me that this Government is seriously tackling unemployment, which is very commendable.
My graduate kids who were once unemployed are now meaningfully (and profitably) employed, and are taking advantage of the economic boom that presently prevails as a result of the inspired leadership of His Excellency President David Granger. One is making and selling plantain chips. He is expecting to sell a million packets at a hundred dollars a packet by the end of the year. That should give him a gross of one hundred million dollars.
Another kid is making sugar cakes, which he sells for one hundred dollars, and is expecting to sell one million sugar cakes by the end of the year also.
He, too, is expecting to gross one hundred million dollars by the end of the year. The youngest kid is having a great life, (unlike the good life the rest of the nation is enjoying).
Having been sentenced to serve three years in jail for possession of 3 grams of marijuana, this kid operates an international bar in prison. Ciroc, Hennessey and hard drugs are the goods he sells, and has already made over sixty million dollars in the first five months of the year.
In closing, I would like to make two recommendations to the Government: Over the past three years, the several commissions of inquiry have made the news more than the Prime Minister has, (I am assuming here that Mr Moses Nagamootoo, and not Mr Joseph Harmon, is the prime minister). As such, I wish to humbly suggest that President Granger scrap the Office of the Prime Minister and replace it with a Ministry of Inquiries.
Please don’t misconstrue my intentions here, as I am not proposing denying Mr Nagamootoo any benefits he may be enjoying. The creation of a Ministry of Ribbon Cutting, with him being the subject minister, will still afford him that feeling of relevance.
Finally, it’s time we stop blowing our own trumpet. Our achievements speak for themselves. Let us call a snap election and win by a landslide.

Respectfully yours,
Reginald Sookram B