The symbolic lynching of sugar workers (Part One)

Dear Editor,
The urge to write again on the manifest racial onslaught on the sugar workers is visceral. I had first written to the primary media publication houses on the destruction taking place in the sugar industry in February 2017. The letter was carried by the three private dailies.
By the first quarter of 2017, I had stopped submitting letters to our State-owned newspaper, the Guyana Chronicle; as my letters to them were not published, however, space was given to the Administration’s obedient supporters to respond to my letters.
The letter herein, takes precedence over the appointment of Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM); in my view the President had the full authority under our poorly drafted Constitution to execute the appointment (no pun intended), in the manner it was done. Why the President tortured the Opposition Leader by asking for unnecessary subsequent lists – is a question for the President’s royal viziers. As the President, once he found the first list unacceptable, he has the power and authority vested in him by the Constitution to unilaterally appoint the Chairman of GECOM.
Of course, one could write on the tragicomedy of our mostly discombobulated Ministers, from the mismanagement of the D’Urban Park Jubilee event to the mixing up of two of our national holidays: Diwali – the festival of lights, and Phagwa – the festival of colours and love; the mix-up or clustered pronouncements, were further compounded by the inference in December 2017 in the National Assembly that only Guyanese of Kshatriya Indian descent, would know the difference between Diwali and Phagwa; thus, making Guyana 99.9 per cent a nation of Kshatriyas and also members of a noble and military class.
Also, writing on the cruel and unusual punishment of the sugar workers; must take priority over the bungling of the Production Sharing Agreement between Exxon and the Government of Guyana, where the mouse has claimed to have had his way with the elephant.
Of course, malicious efforts by Government to take possession of Red House, inflated rental fees for the conversion of a house to a pharmaceutical bond, unjustifiable pharmaceutical supply contracts and the exponential increase in the number of contract workers along with the bourgeoning contract monies for contract workers or the findings or biased findings of the quote unquote – neutral Speaker of the National Assembly, are subordinate, though related to the termination of sugar workers.
The current flaccidly of our unlearning political columnists/commentators, such as David Hinds, Freddie Kissoon and GHK Lall, to name some of our scribes and their post-2015 elections inability to call a spade a spade or identify racism as racism, when it happens under the current Administration to the terminated sugar workers, who are largely of one racial group.
These learned gentlemen commentators have suddenly become tongue tied or restrict themselves to platitudes and their pronouncements become twisted and biased by confusing persecution and racism with economic policy or by failing to say President Granger is ultimately responsible for the tragic treatment of our sugar workers and the oversight of the sugar industry.
These same named writers are unhesitant to invariably blame former President Jagdeo for debacles that happened in Guyana from 1999 to the current date.

Regards,
Nigel Hinds