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THE PPP HAS MADE LIFE UNBEARABLE FOR THE POOR



NOVEMBER 21, 2012 | BY  | FILED UNDER LETTERS 

 

 

Dear Editor,
Since knowing ourselves, Guyana has always been a country in political turmoil, the struggle for independence, the struggle for free and fair elections and today the struggle for good governance and against a system that rewards corruption and penalizes those who want to play by the rules.
Throughout our history all these experiences have taught us that life for the poor and the working class remains almost unbearable.  Even the small business and peasant class “catching fire” under this Jagdeo/Ramotar regime.
If one is to observe the comments coming out of Berbice on the issue of blackout under this PPP regime it is a clear that day to day life in Guyana remains painful and no amount of PPP propaganda can erase the burning in the belly of the people.
Sukhai, a farmer said in Stabroek News What the people Say Column, “This blackout is very terrible because when the current goes on and off… our appliances get burn and damage ….. and we do not receive any refund from GPL.”   Sukhai further stated as a poultry farmer, “…. when the current goes off these chicken suffer.”
But stay with us and listen to Sukhai. Sukhai revealed a reality that the ordinary people in PPP Guyana face every day when he said “…while there is blackout during the day and the pipe is running it (the water) cuts off. We do not have water to use and this is really bad for the people in Berbice.”
Thank you Mr. Sukhai for speaking your truth and for exposed several cases of irrational underdevelopment because of poor governance and corruption under the PPP namely:
1.     The PPP executes capital (fund) punishment on this farmer by damaging his appliances resulting in him spending what he does not have, on new appliances.  This is the PPP formula to keep Sukhai in perpetual poverty.  He did not damage his TV; GPL and by extension the PPP did but they refuse to refund him for his loss of wealth.
2.     As his chicken dies as a result of poor electricity supply, his ability to multiply his wealth is put at risk by the PPP.  Thus his return on his investment reduces with every chicken that dies as a result of blackouts.  Under the PPP this farmer is not guaranteed a fixed rate of return for his investment and labour.
However this same PPP has guaranteed the rate of return for all the mega-investors in Guyana (the Marriot Hotel investors, the Berbice Bridge investors, the Amaila Fall project investors and even Buddy Shivraj when he invested in the Princess Hotel).  No risk for the rich friends, family and business buddies of the ruling Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal. This is the PPP brand of working class party for you!
3.  Water is life; at least that is what the United Nations tells us.  However, under the PPP, potable water remains a luxury that is not easily accessible in the land of many water. Water is a critical element for every family and if you do not have reliable access to water, then you cannot run a poultry farmer properly; much less manage a family satisfactorily. The risk posed by denying this farmer water in times of Blackout has to be responded to by the majority in Parliament.
A motion must be passed demanding a full, independent and transparent investigation of the operations of GPL.
It is time the leadership from all political forces including the back benchers in the PPP, rise up and demand justice for the people of Berbice.  Mr. Zulfikar Mustapha and his side-kick Mr. Jafarally, who like to flounce on Berbice TV to sing the praises of the PPP should wake up from their slumber and stop telling the people Alice in Wonderland stories.  All is not well in Berbice.
They’re living in a world of their own and they’re trying to reduce the rest of us to the same condition of losing touch with reality.   We call on the AFC to highlight the real suffering of the Berbicians to all of Guyana, especially in those areas that the PPP thinks they got tribal rights.
Let us bring the nation back to its centre of gravity where the people more actively resist non-violently the oppressors in the current regime, just like how they resisted the colonialist and the Burnham dictatorship.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh

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Are Riose and Singh BLIND???   What Planet are they on???   They need to take a trip to Black Bush Polder and see what is happening" NEW ROAD, NEW DRAINAGE SYSTEM, NEW RICE FACILITIES, ALL WORTH OVER 1 BILLION DOLLARS. THESE PEOPLE WRITE CRAP DAILY AND HOPE TO FOOL THE PEOPLE. THESE DUNCES MUST REALISE BAGHDAD BOB, HITLER AND OTHERS TRIED THOSE METHODS BEFORE AND FAILED MISERABLY. THE GUYANESE PEOPLE CAN TEACH THESE TWO DUNCES!!!!

Nehru

it look like you have to  get a house lot in black bush polder NEHRU,when you think you can go back and help develop because the people of black bush is using that new road to head to the airport all the way to north america

FM

If the PNC should get back into power Warrior would like to be in job where he can extort money from Indo-Businessmen and live high and mighty like a typical Burnhamite Bully.

 

He is working hard on GNI to get that job.

Billy Ram Balgobin
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

If the PNC should get back into power Warrior would like to be in job where he can extort money from Indo-Businessmen and live high and mighty like a typical Burnhamite Bully.

 

He is working hard on GNI to get that job.

He want ninista wuk. Bhai, me tink wen Burnall bin in pawa, this warria bin ah wan terrarist. He always tak bad abut collie, but he na rememba if na bin ah dem coolie he would ah starve and he belly would ah past pan he ribs.

FM

There is quantitatively less poverty than under the PNC however, there are those in similarly deep poverty.  What has grown wider under the PPP is the gap between the super rich and the poor and this is causing some unease.  This is no different than many developing nations and the challenge of the Govt it to promote risk-taking and economic development while ensuring the least privileged are given a fair shot, education and a decent life.

 

Under the PNC, the poor remained in abject poverty, many mid-class fell into poverty and the rich got poorer or left.  Under the PNC the majority lived in poverty.

FM
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Are Riose and Singh BLIND???   What Planet are they on???   They need to take a trip to Black Bush Polder and see what is happening" NEW ROAD, NEW DRAINAGE SYSTEM, NEW RICE FACILITIES, ALL WORTH OVER 1 BILLION DOLLARS. THESE PEOPLE WRITE CRAP DAILY AND HOPE TO FOOL THE PEOPLE. THESE DUNCES MUST REALISE BAGHDAD BOB, HITLER AND OTHERS TRIED THOSE METHODS BEFORE AND FAILED MISERABLY. THE GUYANESE PEOPLE CAN TEACH THESE TWO DUNCES!!!!


Well what the rass?  When people talk about blackout the PPP call them blind.

 

 

When PPP Leonora Man tief one billion, they call him smart man.

 

HO HO.

FM

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