Dear Editor,
With 50% of Guyana relatively under age 50, half of Guyana would not know, or cannot remember, the days of food shortages back in the 1980s, and the other half would choose not to remember those anguished days of the infamous KSI, when the very PNC party destroyed the integrity of the people, brought shame and disgrace to Guyanese travelling overseas, and squandered the treasury; bringing the economy to a colossal bankruptcy.
People were forced to endure the cruelty and embarrassment of lining up in long queues from early morning for a miserly pint of cooking oil and other essential foodstuff, thanks to the generosity of Burnham and his educated and smart cronies, who knew only to destroy and not build, and to full their pockets at the expense of human suffering.
Yes, everything was a line, whether crooked or straight, for the young and old, average and lower income, the sick or the healthy one, PPP or PNC supporter, all a-we were one back then! It was a time of who wants to know who, and not who you think you know or who know you!
Then, again, the party card was Burnham magic.
Today, once again, Guyana is queuing up at the mercy of a cantankerous caretaker Government, joining the line to wait on the NCM outcome; joining the line to wait on an illegal selection of a GECOM Chair, Mr. Patterson’s removal; joining the line to wait for another appointed GECOM Chair; joining the line to wait on a HTH result; joining the line to wait on the cleansing of a voter’s list; joining the line to wait for an election date announcement; joining the line to vote in cow pastures; joining the line to wait on election counting; joining the line to wait on the atrocious delays created by the infamous coalition party; joining the line to wait on GECOM’s decision over Mingo’s doing; joining the line waiting on the long-drawn-out court proceedings; joining the line to witness a second act of Mingo’s bull; joining the line to await the second court proceeding result; joining the line to wait on the caretaker President’s generosity to accept CARICOM as observers; joining the line to hold your breath to see who really refused the Carter Center reentry’s request; joining the line to wait on Lowenfield’s master plan to professionalise a recount process; joining the line to wait on Madam Chair to refute the nonsensical 156 days to 25 days recount; joining the line for a long, uncomfortable and ridiculous recount process that mirrored the incendiary hand piece of a well strategized plan, filled with obnoxious irrelevance and smoking gun factiousness, meant to distract and delay; joining the line waiting for a final recount result that was so evident and transparent from the inception, except for those looking through the lens made from opaqueness; joining the line for another CEO Lowenfield report, riddled with expected impartialities, vagueness, inaccuracies and trivialities, with the conspicuous absence of the relevant essentials that are detrimental to the Coalition party.
Respectfully,
Jai Lall
