Is Ramsammy touting continued suffering?

Dear Editor,
We refer to that letter from the Minister of Agriculture captioned “Is this what AFC supporters voted for?”  Under this PPP Government some 270,000 are living below the poverty line, that is 270,000 too many Mr. Ramsammy.  Is this what the PPP supporters voted for?

The surest way out of poverty is secure and tenured jobs; not a contract job that makes one literally a slave to a Minister and by extension, the PPP government. Yet this PPP minority Government is the architect of employing contract employees with the mindset to destroy the established Public Service.

The modus operandi of the minority dictatorial PPP regime is to deflower the Public Service so that it can continue to give civil servants the meager five per cent increase annually.

How dare Ramsammy lecture the nation on bread and butter issues when his Government was the engineer that took bread and butter from hundreds of poor workers since 2010 to now and use that money instead to feed the PPP “big fishes”?

The fact is the PPP minority government today cannot be trusted to help the poor and the working class because it is not in its DNA to do so. In fact, the party is more inclined to help its rich and ‘untouchable’ relatives and friends at the expense of the poor.

Was it not a great betrayal and naked vindictiveness when Ramsammy’s Ministry fired 77 Lindeners from the NDIA? Wasn’t it vindictiveness when sugar workers at Skeldon Sugar Estates were fired as collateral damage to cover for the malfunctioning white elephant his Government built at a cost of G$40 billion, that resulted in a 53 per cent decline in sugar productivity?
Wasn’t it vindictiveness bordering on racism to say that Afro-Guyanese were not qualified to be appointed to ambassadorial positions?
Isn’t it malice to grant 90 per cent of all government contracts to one ethnic group? Isn’t it evilness to burn the testicles of a 14 year old and then refuse to compensate him despite ordered by a judge to do so?

Wasn’t it spite when the casual workers in the Post Office were let go when that critical service had over 150 permanent vacancies under the watch of Junior Minister Edghill? Was it not a betrayal of workers’ rights when Davekumar Jainauth injured himself at work and the State told him to use aspirins to get rid of his pains?

If not for the AFC intervening, Mr. Jainauth might have been permanently paralyzed because of Ramsammy’s PPP Government cold-heartedness.
Ramsammy has really suited up to battle for the preservation of the super-salaries for the PPP “political cronies” using the poor and the working class to mask this naked abuse of the Treasury. All those candlelight vigils are aimed at protecting the multi-million dollars funding for Gail Teixeira, Odinga Lumumba, Harripersaud Nokta, Clinton Collymore, Alexei Ramotar, Shaym Nokta and a small army of PPP loyalist.

It is beyond dispute that the aggregated salaries of these six political favourties have and continue to cost the taxpayers some $100 million a year.
The aggregate salary of these six PPP favourites can pay some 175 public servants and feed some 700 mouths every year, more than all of the employees of GINA, NCN, and the Climate Change Unit  combined.
So whom does Mr. Ramsammy think he is fooling as he battles to protect the status quo in the PPP Government?
Dr. Asquith Rose and Sasenarine Singh