Petroleum agreement and Guyana Chronicle claimed firings

Dear Editor,
The recent dismissals of Professor David Hinds and Lincoln Lewis have not displaced the foremost news event in Guyana, this being the sinful giveaway of Guyana’s oil patrimony, followed by the awful decisions in the sugar industry. The terminations have highlighted how politicians attempt to justify inane and asinine acts, by using dishonourable, mendacious or facetious statements.
The utterings by politicians to logically define the indefinable and explain the inexplicable; such as the US$460 million giveaway to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, are weak and ineffectual gestures to deceive the Guyanese people. Over the last two years, several tribal and servile writings of Working People’s Alliance (WPA) members, David Hinds and Tacuma Ogunseye to ‘green-wash’ the current government, has degraded their admirable soldiering with Dr Walter Rodney in the 1970s; under the banner of the WPA. Lincoln Lewis has not varied half as much in his media offerings, which tend to be tepid and insufficient. All these individuals have co-joined to assume worse misdeeds carried out by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), while at the same time, respectfully genuflecting and serving mild criticisms of the current government.
As William Francis Buckley said “I will not insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you said”; this quote is most applicable as a response to claims made by Guyana’s oil politicians and the Editor-In-Chief of the Guyana Chronicle to justify decisions relative to the petroleum agreement and the termination of Hinds and Lewis. Ex-President Desmond Hoyte once referenced a People’s National Congress colleague as a “creature of the party”, truer words were never spoken when it comes to party politics and paramountcy of party leaders.
We have a Chronicle Board that so enjoy their role as status supplicants that instead of resigning en masse from the Guyana Chronicle Board of Directors, thereby distancing themselves from the irrational dismissals of Hinds and Lewis. Instead, the Board members prefer to split and twist words. What we really need are persons in the hierarchy of leadership that have the courage and strength to insist on the renegotiation of the unholy petroleum agreement and to right obvious and egregious wrongs. Several options are in the marketplace that by far, are not as dishonourable.

Sincerely,
Nigel Hinds