By GHK Lalll- For the past few weeks, Guyanese have been drowning from long deluges from the heavens. These have forced Guyanese to cry themselves to sleep (those who can), then drown again in their unconscious tears that flow from tormented, restless slumber. They die by a thousand cuts from one plague, then another. It is the kind of catlike existence that a kind, caring PPP Govt has forced them to live.
For the last few years-more than a few to be accurate-Guyanese have been crying and drowning from an overpowering cost-of-living environment. Almost literally dying on their feet, except that the PPP Govt is too slick to allow postmortems, so that the cause of their departures could be identified. Consequences of malnutrition, pining away from starvation, I would say. Prices for basic food items climb higher and higher, continually breaking new levels. Rising prices, like rising floodwaters, are a crime. Regular man-in-the-street Guyanese are the ones doing the time. Hard time, for the record.
Amid all these trials on Guyanese stomachs and spirits, what did the PPP Govt do? Its brain trust wasted precious time to refine a certified winner. Its master schemers, planners, rolled up sleeves, delayed the free rum and coke (liquid and other kinds), and delivered what would make a genius green with envy. While one set of Guyanese are starving, another set drowning from torrential rains, and both groups crying, depravedly indifferent PPP masterminds used their time to develop and refine an unlimited benefits bill for former presidents.
Who that isn’t a prime candidate for a straitjacket in a lunatic asylum would dream up something like that in the crush of circumstances that suffocate the life out of dread-infested Guyanese? Where else on this earth could a cabal of the equivalent cunning, a school of predators with similar ruthlessness, be found?
To compare to those who drummed up this mischief of a revised benefits bill for former presidents to be tabled in parliament. It calls for an extraordinary kind of heartless and backstabbing sons of tarnation (better that I exclude the real thing) to injure already insulted citizens with more of this premeditated sickness. This is not cancer of the brain. It is leprosy taking control of the brain.
Motions for discussions on the Wales Gas-to-Energy that involves American billions and energy relief for tens of thousands of Guyanese cannot get past the Speaker. But a bill for four former presidents and another one waiting in the wings with lips drooling, is just about guaranteed to have its day on the floor of the Guyana National Assembly. To he be the glory. The Guyanese people are being further gouged, this time before their eyes, so that four former presidents can rise from masters of the realm to mandarins in their personal empires. But is it really for them (foremost)?
To hell with qualifying statements about former presidents are also people, and like people everywhere, they too have to eat and drink. They are already eating and drinking too much on Guyanese dollars. This is part of the ugly continuum of PPP Guyana: ways are found to give more to those who already had a whole lot more than they deserve.
There cannot be strenuous efforts to make good on many promises made in featured national addresses, attended by thousands of special guests. But time can be set aside, energy dug up from deep within, and inspiration kindled to cobble together a benefits bill for former president that does two things simultaneously to Guyanese. Defecates on them in public. And urinates on them before the disbelieving gaze of the foreign legion and the domestic brigade.
Is Guyana a country, or is it a customized PPP penitentiary for the Guyanese people? Is the PPP Govt for the people, or is it a catastrophic crime wave for Guyanese? Who stand to be the biggest beneficiaries? All considered.
In further enriching former presidents. Further pauperizing passive Guyanese.
