Having endured a painful 27yrs of PPP, we in these 83000sq miles are still struggling to digest their most asinine of statements. And such asinine statements are no more evident, than with Bharat Jagdeo, who would ever so often have our eardrums bleeding with unadulterated buffoonery. However, with Bharrat Jagdeo designated the undisputed champion of buffoonery, a begrudging Sam Hinds, a close second, has left the masses bewildered as to how he ever graced the halls of the elite Queen’s College.
For it’s without doubt, Sam Hinds has reduced himself to nothing but mediocrity, having had himself demoted from President to Prime Minister and ultimately Ambassador. In fact, Sam Hinds is of such mediocrity, that to date he stands as the most toothless and clueless Prime Minister ever, in this English-speaking Caribbean. But now having faced the indignity of being devalued as a Prime Minister, Sam Hinds, of some bizarre reasoning, is to now foolishly admonished the masses, that they too should be toothless, allowing themselves to be devalued in rejoicing over the ExxonMobil’s pittance.
Thus, considering Sam Hinds’ most brainless of utterances, none would argue, not even in the most intoxicated of states, that ExxonMobil isn’t unjustly benefiting from this most lopsided of contracts. In fact, PPP acknowledged as much when they proffered, in their 2020 election manifesto, that they will fervently renegotiate the inequitable contract. However, on being installed by the Americans in the said 2020 elections, a now pro-American PPP is singing a different tune, on us respecting the sanctity of the ExxonMobil contract.
But we the masses do recognise, even as we acknowledge, the lopsided nature of this incestuous contract, is leaving us worse off than other regional oil producing nations. And even as PPP argue about respecting the sanctity of the ExxonMobil contract, they’re failing to acknowledge, their manifesto promise on renegotiating said oil contract, represent a social contract they are breaking with us the voting masses. Thus, we the voting masses are compelled to query, if sanctity is being extended to ExxonMobil contract, why same sanctity isn’t afforded to our social contract?
That said, it’s without doubt that pre-ExxonMobil, we were rightly recognised as the second least developed nation, in Latin America and the Caribbean. But with oil having been discovered in our seas, registered a change in fortunes, where we are now being characterised as the world’s fastest growing economy. However, despite this upsurge in economic fortunes, ExxonMobil continues to examine us through the lenses of poverty, thus endeavour to deny us value for our oil.
As a matter of fact, ExxonMobil sees themselves as the saviour of this nation, they consider backward and impoverished, so is only deserving of pittance from their God-given oil. And it’s for this reason, Sam Hinds, who is used to being undervalued, makes the preposterous argument, that we should also allow ourselves to be used, abused and undervalued by ExxonMobil, like he is in PPP.
For this is the painful reality, ExxonMobil to date should have paid our coffers US$10B, however, through highway robbery, they have only rewarded us 44% of that sum, which translates to a pittance US$4.4B. But despite such heartless white-collar robbery, Sam Hinds, the undervalued former President, Prime Minister and now Ambassador argued, we have troubles absorbing US $4.4 billion, what more troubles we would have with U.S. $10 billion. And having placed his small foot in his big mouth, Sam Hinds went on to further argue, we should rejoice with our US$4.4B, since without oil we would have received nothing.
In fact, we the masses have recognised, over the PPP decades in power, that Sam Hinds of a psychological inferiority complex, has perpetually sold himself short, even as PPP humiliatingly undervalued him. And it’s through these decades of being undervalued, that Sam Hinds believes we as a nation should ourselves be undervalued by ExxonMobil. However, we as a proud people should endeavour not to rejoice over pittance, like Sam Hinds would, even as we fight for our every penny from this exploitive ExxonMobil contract.
