Dear Editor,
As Guyana’s economic growth and development continue to progress by leaps and bounds, the Opposition and the Kaieteur News have vigorously renewed and intensified their efforts to stigmatise and discredit the PPP/C Government. This is not unlike what was done prior to 2015.
The Opposition, likewise, the Kaieteur News have sung the corruption mantra with great gusto prior to the 2015 General Elections and have achieved the desired results – the reducing of the PPP/C into a minority Government and the eventual ushering of the coalition into power.
We are now witnessing the tremendous and unrelenting efforts made by the Kaieteur News publisher to blame the PPP/C Government for all the ‘defects’ of the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement signed by the coalition in June that year. This is despite the rational and logical explanations given by the present Government. Many ‘oil experts’ have materialised since this Government took office and have been utilising corrupt examples from countries such as Nigeria to dramatise their misrepresentations of this Government. This is tantamount to saying that this Government will engage in the same corrupt practices. They were non-existent prior to August 2020. The editorial of this media and the publisher will never highlight the benefits from the oil money which Guyanese are enjoying. It is always about how Guyanese are being ‘robbed’ by Exxon and the Government doing nothing. Those who have eyes shall see and those who have eyes shall hear. Not only in Guyana but Guyanese and citizens of other countries all over the world are proud of the developments taking place.
The APNU and the AFC mastered this art of deception in 2015. What will be more attractive than telling the people that they are going to get thousands of US dollars in their pocket? How will Lall ever give them this? Let’s be realistic, Glenn Lall has a snowball chance in hell to win a general election and form a Government, so what’s his agenda? He is simply selling a dream – a dangerous fantasy. In the same vein we saw the promises made by the coalition which never materialised. Lies and deceit, chaos and mayhem are their only contributions to nation building.
Now the coalition has a new addition to its repertoire – the Venezuelan/Guyana border issue. Venezuelans people are fleeing from hunger and severe deprivations of basic needs, many of whom are from Guyanese parentage. All the AFC and APNU can see is votes for the PPP. Where is their humanity? During the PNC dictatorship, thousands of Guyanese fled to all parts of the world in search for a living for themselves and families. Many were ill-treated and treated as last class citizens whilst some were not even allowed entry into another country – there was the Guyana Bench at the Grantley Adams International Airport and some Guyanese could not enter the country at all. Vice President Jagdeo remembered this and empathised with the Venezuelan migrants. Is this legally and morally wrong? We cannot and should not see each and every migrant as a threat to our sovereignty. There is a screening process and that is being followed. The USA is allowing hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans entry into the US in a safe and orderly manner, but as usual the APNU and AFC have nothing to persuade or convince their dwindling support base of their usefulness so they embark on their journey of lies and spinning of deceitful yarns. It is a known fact that they are deathly afraid of the great statesmanship of the VP and his keen acumen since he is the sole reason why they are in the process of becoming the longest running Opposition ever.
The plans of the Kaieteur News and the APNU/AFC will fail miserably this time since the Guyanese people are benefiting from the massive socio-economic development taking place across every community and region of this country and this is getting better on a daily basis.
Yours sincerely,
Haseef Yusuf
