President Ali riding on a wave of popularity

Dear Editor,
It is said that Dr. Francis Crick was the most notable naysayer. He was the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, and he went on to become a neuroscientist. Dr. Crick also shared with Watson and Watkins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962.
Guyana is being plagued and bombarded on a daily basis with soothsayers, naysayers, anti-hero protagonists, antagonists, critics, cynics, skeptics, misanthropists, doubters, complainers, and a throng of pessimists who value, market, and propagate only the negative side of anything seen, heard, developed, proposed, or potentially possibly viable for the good of a Guyana that is being developed at a rapid pace.
Of course, there are those who provide constructive criticism, and they must be lauded for their commendable input. They approach any situation with a keen sense of judgment, and with a sober and open mind. But when a court of law in Guyana fails to rationalise that 33 is the majority of 65, then that proves the level to which insurgents are ready to take this country. The agents of subversiveness are poised and placed in each strategic area; ready, willing, and capable of not defending the rights of the people.
The usual suspects are always hard at work, and devote their lives to producing and manufacturing propaganda, with lies and distortions in order to discredit the current Government and its officers. They would challenge anything at the expense of their electoral constituent and financial supporters, regardless of the moral indignity or the legal implications, or the worthiness of its nature, or commonsense. There is no sense of pride, and shame does not exist in their vocabulary or DNA. There is no room for integrity, and so honour has escaped, been eradicated, eliminated and extinguished from human nature with explicit profanities. There is absolutely no reservation for extending any respect or regard for principles, rules and regulations, law and order, precedents, or the normal functioning of society with acceptable, established, and cherished norms.
No need to regurgitate the details surrounding the three famous cases presented by the PNC Party to the CCJ during the infamous 2020 elections, but the outcome of them losing simply supports the above paragraph. The painful 18 months’ waiting after the Motion of No Confidence, the illegal transactions conspired during this hiatus, the 5-month siege by the PNC after the election in March 2020, their outright refusal to demit office, their denial of fraud attempts, their contempt for the international community, and their scorn for the legitimate recount results simply impede on the sacrosanctity of truth and the inhibition of devious and devilish miscreancy.
Coming home closer to time, since the appointment of the Leader of the Opposition, so many events have unfolded, confirming that he, his people, and his party are meant to disrupt the smooth flow of progress in the country, and their aim is to disrupt any peaceful agenda prevailing, and prevent the Government from functioning in its rightful capacity. His animosity when reaching with the President set the tone and tune to follow for the remaining period in office.
Rejecting the concept of consultation, and wanting to rule from the outside is his mantra. Challenging all the President’s appointments ushers him into a state of denial, that he is not the President of Guyana. In Dec. 2021, after the Mace-grabbing debacle and disruption of the National Assembly, the eight APNU/AFC members involved were rewarded with a mere slap on the wrist by the Privileges Committee for them to be suspended. Now it is rumoured that there will be a court challenge. Bullies will always remain tormentors and intimidators.
No wrong can ever be right, but this generated despicable behaviour underlines the fact that even the current generation of youngsters in that Party is determined to preserve the heredity of hooliganism, and to preserve the motto of brute force and ignorance in order to live and not let others live, so that they can greedily survive at any cost.
There will never be any transition from evil to good, because they simply cannot comply with waging the war for decency over indecency. This transgression is again repeated in the recent looting, robbing, beating, and burning of innocent people of one community in Mon Repos. This is a repetitive action from the instigated and inspired misdoings at West Berbice in 2020.
The backlash from the worst oil agreement in the history of the oil industry is a slap in the face of Guyanese, and leaves the current Government imprisoned with a lopsided contract and the wrath of the people to forge a change for a better deal, after being tied into unfair clauses which literally handcuff the hands of any negotiators, thanks to the generosity of AFC’s brilliant professional and expert as a specialist.
The blame is no longer on the onus of the previous administration, and there is no call for the real culprits to step forward and face the heat, but to transfer the attention of the problem with a misdirection. Such is the bullishness of those who have sold out the rights of Guyanese and their real worth.
Guyana being the fastest growing economy in the world and the richest nation per capita in this hemisphere is now being seen through the eyes of haziness and glazed but not glossy clarity, as an image of mirage. But the international experts from the IMF, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the CDB view Guyana through the telescope of sound financial stability, and would contradict such negative reproach.
This week alone, the pessimists are trembling in their boots as so many projects are being unfolded and the President is riding on a wave of popularity nationally and internationally to silence the critics. Isn’t it time for Guyana to wake up and smell the freshness and richness of its homegrown products, and turn a blind eye to those who want to mislead and misrule? It’s time for the naysayers to get real and accept reality!

Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall