PM Rowley was so right when he said, “This will not end well”

Dear Editor,
Today marks the sixth sad day for the unfortunate Berbice murder saga: which has left a bitter taste in the mouths of Guyanese and rocked the nation with its worst nightmare; which continues to daunt the very spirit of camaraderie, one that Guyana is trying to forge ahead with after a long battle fought to restore democracy from the claws of bullies.
The PNC Party, alias APNU/AFC, tried to deceive a nation since December 2018 when the NCM was successfully moved and passed, but was denied its consequence and the matter was prolonged all the way to the CCJ, who then decided on a favourable decision for its effectiveness and the causation for new election in the next three months.
The then Government had to be taught a simple lesson in mathematics: that 33 is greater than 32, putting an entire country to shame and being ridiculed by the world for such petty stupidity.
This exposure radically highlighted the silliness of the PNC Party and internationally exposed their absurdity. Their shallowness was further compounded when the CCJ again ruled them incorrect when the GECOM Chairman, Patterson, was illegally appointed. The CCJ had warned them that, legally, the APNU/AFC Party government was in a “caretaker mode”, and as such, they had to operate within its confines and jurisdiction.
Since Dec. 2018, Mr. Granger and his Party brought this country to an economic standstill, with all developments being held in abeyance. As such, the employment rate dropped, cost of living escalated, and people’s lifestyle became deplorable.
The APNU/AFC Party’s stubbornness caused this country and its people to suffer tremendously, and as a result, all Guyanese, especially the man in the street and those at the lower end, had to struggle daily for survival and to make ends meet, not knowing where the next meal would come from. This brought tremendous pressure on the depressed people, and they were literally left abandoned by a Government that only took care of their selected few to live the good life.
The APNU/AFC Party were guilty of applying delaying tactics to stall the holding of election until March 2020, and after the election, in front of the eyes of the national and international observers, they tried to steal the election with their cockishness and crooked figures. This was unacceptable by that community, and everyone retaliated in various forms. The application of election fraud and skullduggery by the APNU/AFC Party created chaos and confusion, and further rocked the nation with many court challenges, until the CCJ finally ruled that the CARICOM election recount result was valid, thereby paving the way for Dr. Irfaan Ali to be legitimately sworn in as the new President and the PPP/C Party to form the new, legally elected Government.
This did not sit well with the APNU/AFC Party, who had always adopted a policy of “slo fiya, mo fiya” then declaring “war break.” Never accepting the election result, they did promised to make life a “living hell” for the new Government. From the time the new Government took office, the PPP/C Party discovered all the mischief deployed by Mr. Granger and his caretaker Party, bringing to light all the corruption, collusions, illegal transactions, their lies and fraudulent embezzlements, all the perks and freeness extended to party and political appointees, the non-working employees, the wastages and the raping of the Treasury.
Now Guyanese became aware as to the real reasons for the country’s bankruptcy, where all the revenues were being disbursed, who were receiving all the fat salaries and allowances, and why the state of the economy was in such a deplorable condition and why the poor Guyanese were being denied a decent opportunity to live a lifestyle without having to scrape the bottom of the pot.
It is the miscreants from the wrong doings of the APNU/AFC Party that created this terrible situation where ordinary citizens had to turn to illegal activities in order to survive. COVID-19 didn’t help either. The pain and suffering were too overbearing and the expenses kept piling up with no solution to the problem for the suppressed people.
The past Government set a precedent for stealing, breaking all the rules and regulations, and not abiding with law and order. So, you have a desperate nation that is succulent for being naïve and gullible from all of the APNU/AFC Party’s tomfoolery. Seeing how the past Government was escaping with all their malfeasance, the poor man tried to copy them also. As a result, more stealing became prevalent, and some, unfortunately, were not as successful as the past caretaker Government to escape unscratched.
The PNC Party planted the ethnic imbalance from the inception in the 1960s through the medium of the “race card,” Burnham propaganda, and since then, this has catapulted a political disparity by his followers and seeded an economic hardship because of dictatorship and mismanagement. As a consequence, this channelled a social upheaval, paving the way for mass migration and a dependency on foreign remittances from overseas families, the advancement of progressive groups via tremendous sacrifices, and the non-growth of certain sectors due to challenging circumstances.
The APNU/AFC Party had ignored the interest of the mass from both sides of the divide during their last tenure, and had to resort to pulling out their trump card of racial biasness in order to influence and implore their followers to secure their votes at the last election. That stigma, still alive, was inherited by the PPP/C Party when they took office along with a broken economy.
The PNC Party are enjoying this brutal Berbice fiasco as a live sideshow, and are unprepared to discourage its continuance. No wonder the twisted undertones from their leaders’ thwarted statements and their silent approval for its longevity.
Prime Minister Rowley was so right when he said, “This will not end well,” as the smell of PNC Party’s retribution thickens the plot. The cry for justice now becomes “multi fold” and a catastrophic adumbration.

Respectfully,
Jai Lall