Citizen Questions Global Power, Oil Deals, and Guyana’s Independence

Dear Editor,

One wonders if with the statements and positions of the man in charge, with the most powerful ever military establishment, who promises to destroy all the bridges, oil facilities, and freshwater storage in an entire nation, are we soon likely to fulfil the prophecy of an Armageddon.

My Guyanese brothers and sisters listened to the statement from the United States Ambassador, warning us that we should not even be thinking of renegotiating that lopsided contract with the oil giants, which leaves the oil company with the lion’s share. Since when a foreign envoy pronounces on these matters. Is the thinking that Guyanese are infants or idiots? The Ambassador next pronounces on the matter to do with the Mohammeds causing the Mohammed’s attorney to write her.

We see Israel bombing and displacing entire communities and, in the process, killing aid workers, innocent children and women. We see confusion in the Philippines, and no regard for life in parts of Europe. Thank God the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken a position different to one of his predecessor Stephen Harper, who felt that the Prime Minister of Israel could do no wrong, and saw nothing wrong with obliterating the Palestinian people.

Mark Carney’s statement is in keeping with the majority at the United Nations for a number of years, which is the recognition of the State of Palestine. That is a glimmer of hope, but the gloom darkened when the most powerful man in the world can portray himself as Jesus and use that four letter word, that if any of us used it in public would land us in jail, or pay a fine for using indecent language. I said earlier, I avoid all US airports and therefore not afraid to speak up.

Yours truly,
Nigel Bacchus