PNC MP Vinceroy Jordan should be ashamed to speak on agriculture

Dear Editor,
I have listened very attentively to the Honorable Vinceroy Jordan’s contribution to budget debate 2025, and am convinced this pastor needs lots of prayers to ensure he preaches the truth to his congregation during church services.
This pastor, whom I had believed would have spoken the truth to this nation and its people, keeps failing year after year; going to the National Assembly and speaking on top of his voice, shouting out lots of lies and disinformation as a politician.
Over the years, I have been mentioning that this MP is unfit to be the shadow Minister of Agriculture, because he has no knowledge of any of the sectors, and fails to do his research, but seems to be bowing and reading, during his debate, what was written by his mentor.
Firstly, Jordan has lied about GuySuCo and its failure under the APNU/AFC-PNC (we all know they are PNC), because it was the then government who promised not to close any of the estates or to knock off any of the workers, although they knew sugar was in an unhealthy position.
Moses Nagamootoo, Khemraj Ramjattan, Dr. Ramayya and others can attest to the promises made to sugar workers at the Whim rally; where Granger himself was there, and clapping, waving and dancing when those promises were made to the sugar workers.
Jordan fails to say that after the sugar workers, their families and relatives voted for the PNC (APNU/AFC) to gain political power and form the government in 2015, a few months later, Granger and his PNC cabals started to target the sugar industry and its workers, because majority of them are of a particular race and belief to have the PPP at heart.
MP Jordan failed to tell the National Assembly and the people that it was Granger, Nagamootoo (conniving snake), and PNC that decided to fire thousands of sugar workers and leave their families to think where the next meal was going to come from.
Jordan failed to say that the then Minister of Agriculture had no knowledge of how to manage the sector, and moreover could not make any decision without the PNC having a hearing and a say. The then minister was just occupying the chair as head of the ministry, because his hands were tied by the PNC, which has no vision for development.
Jordan failed to say that the PNC has no vision to manage anything as a government.
Jordan was made a mocking stock when he said that when the coalition (PNC) gets back into power, they would manage the industry better. Get back where and when, MP Jordan? NEVER AGAIN, PNC.
MP Jordan’s presentation was overcast with lies and deception about the agriculture sector, because it was the PNC (APNU/AFC) government that made the sweet promises to the rice farmers but, yet again, after securing their votes and gaining government, they went and raised the taxes for rice farmers.
There were hardly any dams, drainage or irrigation services offered to the farmers within the MMA/ADA Scheme, and mostly a backlog of tens of millions owed to the authority by some very big ones in the PNC.
Land was taken away from farmers and given to PNC cronies without proper authorization, and MMA/ADA was left in a state of collapse because they had no equipment that was functional to serve the farmers’ needs.
The infrastructure within the scheme was deteriorating, and Jordan knew it, but again ran from the truth into the books of the devil to spill misinformation to the public.
I can go on and on to state the lies of Jordan’s budget debate, but he would not learn anything, especially the truth; because he is trained, coached, raised by, and will remain a PNC, and we all know that lies, deception, racism, and rigging are the PNC motto.
This very MP failed to tell the National Assembly and this nation that, only two Saturdays ago, the Ministry of Agriculture, through NDIA, held the opening of the four-door sluice at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice; in his very backyard, where millions were spent on that structure, which will now benefit thousands of residents of Region 5, not farmers alone; and many others are being rehabilitated after being neglected by the past PNC government.
Again, this MP failed to tell the National Assembly that, for the first time in Region 5, a brand new wharf was commissioned at D’Edward for the fishermen plying their trade. And not only a wharf, but also a shed that would accommodate those fisherfolks. This Government, through vibrant and dedicated leadership of Minister Mustapha and MMA/ADA, made that happen.
What this means, Jordan, is that the fishermen no longer have to go into the mud to get their catch to the shore; they take their boats straight to the wharf and discharge their catch without walking in that deep mud. That is development.
Those fishermen, when doing their business, now have shade from the sun and rain under that brand new shed; and further, the Minister made a promise that within a few weeks, another shed would be constructed so all the fisherfolks can be comfortable doing their trade. This is development, Jordan, PNC MP.
Jordan, you failed to tell the nation about the many successes of the model farm that was built and maintained at Fort Wellington under this Government and minister. You failed to talk about the many crops produced at this facility; unlike the former PNC REO model farm, which was just coconuts, two empty fish ponds, seven sheep; a small cash crop garden, the produce of which was taken solely to Linden, and never made a profit, etc.
MP Jordan, you failed to tell the nation about the many investments and successes of cash crops within the regions since the PPP took office. During the rule of the PNC for five years, cash crops were on the decline, like the many other crops in agriculture, and people hardly wanted to invest because no assistance was given to the real farmers but just to friends and families of PNC. Today hundreds, or should I say thousands, of persons are into cash crops in Region 5 because of the assistance being given by this caring Government and minister towards food security.
Let me put a hold here, and say that the PNC once again have shown this nation that they are not ready to be a government, and are willing to stay in the opposition for years to come because they are visionless, uneducated in running Guyana, and do not like development, no matter what.
Jordan, you keep bringing down your soul and making the words of God not accepted in peace because of the lies you are telling six days weekly, and pretending to a few on Sundays that you are holy and truthful. Your 2025 budget presentation speaks volumes of the hatred, lies and deception within you, and also about the racism that guides you. Open your eyes and see the real Region 5 and the agri-sector. Be a man for yourself, and tell the truth. Be like your colleague MP Geeta Chandan-Edmond and speak from your heart of what is happening and support Guyana’s betterment under the PPP/C government. And by doing this, you don’t have to sleep with one of your legs in heaven and the rest of your body in hell.
Agriculture is on the rise under the leadership of Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha and the PPP Government led by President Irfaan Ali.

Regards,
Abel Seetaram