Archive for the ‘forbes burnham’ tag
Tara Singh: A dinosaur of Guyana’s “Apan Jhaat” Era - Rickford Burke
Tara Singh: A dinosaur of Guyana’s “Apan Jhaat” Era - And enabler of racism and Indian supremacy in Guyana
Part I
The Guyanese polity is being emasculated by the following socio-political malignancies. (I) Rabid PPP racism and the government’s arrogant demand to govern unchallenged as an ethnocracy; (II) Pervasive racial discrimination against African-Guyanese; about 40% of the population, and (III) Reprehensibly bad PPP governance; a penchant for theft and corruption, flaunting the rule of law as well as a derision for social justice and equality. The consequence is an inexorable movement towards further political instability, congealed racial polarization, social degeneration and economic stagnation. The confluence of these dynamics renders the country ungovernable. Read the rest of this entry »
Forbes Burnham’s nationalism vs Bharrat Jagdeo’s - Freddie Kissoon
Let me tell you a story of how unbelievable the violation of the nationalist principles of this country by the present PPP Government is. I got a story in 2006 from one of the most powerfully placed persons in the Government, one who works closely with President Jagdeo. This person is a Jagdeo loyalist and a PPP mandarin, but he is a nationalist.
He told me that a man was building a commercial structure on the trench or the holding pond situated on the southern carriageway of the Railway Embankment at Cummings Lodge, just yards from where I live. I didn’t believe him. It was impossible. No one would do that, not after what the Great Floods of 2005 did to Cummings Lodge, Turkeyen, and the whole of the lower East Coast. Read the rest of this entry »
An inconvenient truth - Freddie Kissoon
There are some expressions of life that we encounter, and they make us wonder about the character of those who want to lead us to the Promised Land. They shock us. They amaze us. But in the end we come to accept that life is a paradox, hard as that is to accept. Guyana’s contemporary history should teach this nation about the mysteries of politics and the paradox that life is. Read the rest of this entry »
Freddie Kissoon performs the duties of an intellectual gadfly - Ravi Dev
Dear Editor,
Even though many have advised that I should leave unanswered, what I dubbed in 1992, “Mr. Fredrick Kissoon’s querulous polemics”, I do believe that he performs a yeoman task in this country – that of a public intellectual gadfly.
This is not an inconsiderable contribution in the creation or maintenance of a democratic society. But I do wish he would be a tad more careful with some of his utterances that he issues so definitively as “facts” – and when these are shown to be erroneous, blithely goes on to make other, just as outrageous, allegations.
In his Monday (14-04-08) column, referring to my use of the words, “our country (meaning his and mine)”, he asserted: “I need to point out to Dev that Guyana is my land. I hold no passport for another country, unlike Mr. Dev.” Read the rest of this entry »
Bharrat Jagdeo giving seeds to Guyanese like his mentor Forbes Burnham
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Guyana is tackling the soaring price of food in markets by sending citizens to their gardens to grow their own.
President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday the government would give seeds _ mostly rice _ in rural communities, hoping that people will sow them on idle land and in gardens in the small South American nation. Read the rest of this entry »
Freddie Kissoon is wrong Forbes Burnham’s rule was an abomination - Moses Nagamootoo
Dear Editor,
I was tempted after a more recent event has come to pass, to admit that the Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon, was almost right - even strangely prophetic: he had interpreted my reconciliation with the PPP’s government and party leadership as an act of political suicide.
Before I could do so, my attention was drawn to an article (April 6, 2008) in which Kissoon named several PPP leaders whom, he claimed, “enjoyed democracy under Burnham’s presidency”.
Kissoon wrote: “No central committee and executive committee member of the present or part PPP were (sic) ever put in jail by Burnham”. Then he named me among others who were “never charged by the police under Mr. Burnham’s watch with even the minor offence of resisting arrest. They were never touched by Burnham’s police.” Read the rest of this entry »
You insult Forbes Burnham when you compare him to Jagdeo & Co.
Dear Editor,
Imagine, some people say that a certain person is channelling Burnham! That he is autocratic, petty and vindictive. They must think again.
