by Randy Gopaul
There is no question that Guyana is led by a brutal, racist, insecure band of morons. There is no question that this cabal has benefited from several advantages, including, being gifted the gift of numbers by the brutal colonials. Additionally, they have been able to manipulate their voters into believing that there is an inherent risk to non-PPP leadership in Guyana and they have done so by empowering key voices to lie continuously to the masses, to whisper racist epitaphs under the bottom house, and by undermining the standard of education in their own strongholds, exaggerating the visibility of a handful of wealthy students whose parents could afford the supplemental education to get them to perform creditably on national assessments.
The PPP have done the most to keep a large percent of the East Indian population in poverty and the proof is all around us, if we care to look.
This regime does not care about poor East Indians, if they did, they would have improved the quality of education and the quality of life in general, for their financially vulnerable supporters years ago. Instead they run into communities when the citizens get restless and they offer one-off grants for farmers, or entrepreneurs, and they make grandiose promises, which are almost never delivered, and they never give enough to make a difference in the lives of their own voters. They give just enough to satiate the hungry and to make struggling citizens feel a sense of gratitude.This regime does not care about East Indian Diaspora returnees because too many of them have been educated overseas, they have broadened their horizons and their experiences and they cannot be convinced of racist inanities. They just want to set up their businesses efficiently and to grow their wealth. They too are a risk to the PPP. Try to talk with a few of them and what they whisper about their experiences will shock you.
But what the PPP has done to indigenous communities is egregious. Indigenous children still die at twice the rate of coastal children, indigenous children are 7x less likely to complete their education than children in coastal schools. 20 Indigenous children were killed at Mahdia due to the gross disregard for their lives by this PPP administration and it was swept ‘under a rug.’ 100+ region 1 and mostly indigenous citizens were killed in the MV Barima tragedy and the PPP Is ready to move on. We can look forward to no justice in this case.
Indigenous communities for the most part still lack infrastructure those on the coast have taken for granted–electricity, sanitation facilities, indoor plumbing, potable water, internet and at this point, one can make the indisputable case that the underdevelopment of indigenous communities is deliberate.
Africans are under assault too, the PPP want their co-ops and their village lands and they want to ensure that any African success is tied inextricably to PPP generosity. They desire African lands because these lands are undoubtedly valuable, they remain the only source of wealth and power for Africans in Guyana and they are the last remaining properties available in such large quantities in Guyana and the plans are already written for how the PPP intends to take those lands. If not for the enormous outcry over the Mocha dispossession, they would have aggressively moved forward with their master plan, but that plan remains in motion.
The PPP do not ever intend to raise wages for public servants, it is a pipe dream and no amount of laughing and smiling and eating cook-up rice with Priya Manickchand, Irfaan Aly and Sonia Parag will make it so. These 3 are the most duplicitous of any of the PPP ministers and they embrace the wearing of African and Indigenous children as props to convince the public that they are not a clear and present danger to those who do not crawl on their bellies before the PPP.
There is no amount of reasoning with this brigand of charlatans, these crooks, these vipers, these evil men and women. Bharrat Jagdeo and his team are willing to committ the ultimate evil to maintain power and those whom they oppress must be willing to respond to their evil.
One commentator to whom I spoke said, “We the people must shut down this town. We must interrupt commerce. We must respond in kind–punch for punch, with the PPP.” and I’m not sure I disagree with him.
The PPP have to learn that all Guyanaese are willing to fight for an equal chance to do more than survive their evil. The PPP have to learn that we the people are willing to fight for our rights rather than live on our hands and knees before their monstrous regime.
