Dear Editor,
Today, 115 days after a peaceful and orderly voting process, we are going through the up-and-down, in-and-out ride of the PNC ring-around- the-roses we won the elections, the elections must be annulled, then we won again. It seems the PNC want to change our national sports to “One, Two, Three Red Light”, and now you come at this moment to add your voice, but the young people of today will not have it.
People of a bygone era should just stay quiet. If you are following the Black Lives Matter protest, you should be aware that, all over the world, oppressors’ statues and names are being removed. While you sit in Miami, the residents of Roxane Burnham Gardens have not seen one of the oppressors you are defending, not one mask or hamper.
For the scion of Forbes Burnham to attempt to engage the Chair of Caricom on her defence of freedom and the civil charter, it is calisthenics in dauntlessness of gold medal proportions that is redolent of LFSB’s the Führer comments: “We are not a colony, let us settle our internal matter in Guyana. It is our right to say when they may come and when they may not come, I am tired of these busy-bodies”.
The Animal Farm comments are well documented and not lost is Guyana 55 years’ history.
Today, it is astonishing that the name Burnham would enter a conversation and try to engage Mia Motley on issues such as freedom and democracy. I ask: Is it an epiphany that a Burnham would seek to censure people interested in safeguarding the will of the people? I say to you, plenipotentiary of the dark era, that neither your class nor popularity is anywhere close to that of Mottley’s and the free world’s, and the Guyanese people will not tolerate the likes of you, who represent the dinosaur mentality.
Guyana has freed itself of the economic shackles that we inherited from LFSB. We no longer strap ourselves with sardine, nor do we smuggle flour; we are not seen as the fleeing refugees in the Caribbean.
While it is routine for a daughter not to speak ill of her father, nor a wife of her husband, the new generation, unprejudiced of the Burnham epoch, is watching the daily as Richard Van West-Charles tries to reintroduce smuggling as a national economic activity vis-à-vis his fuel operations.
Mrs. Burnham-Van West-Charles, I respect your right to your opinion, but you should also respect the will of the Guyanese people, and be responsible in your ramblings. In case you did not hear, APNU-AFC has lost the March 2nd 2020 elections by 15,461 votes.
The institutions of our state which your father once controlled with iron fist are not as politicised as they once were. Your dad’s fear of the Privy Council seems to be your fear of the CCJ and Caricom. No longer is the PNC paramount, and no one would tolerate a dictator who refuses to adhere to democratic principles.
Respectfully,
Rovin Adrian
