The ABCEs are within their right to establish conditions under which they will release their taxpayers’ money

Dear Editor,

One of the requirements of a good leader is a good conscience. Conscience itself is a curious word because it requires having a sound value system, which itself requires being able to distinguish between universally acceptable rights, and universal wrongs, which more often than not are founded on religious teaching of one form or another. One of the consequences of a failed, or lack of, conscience, is the destruction of welfare, because by the world’s standards, leaders who do not have a conscience commit all kinds of cruelty with justification which ultimately lead to the destruction of human welfare, I am not at all enamored by some of the positions of David Hinds, and in this case, Lincoln Lewis.

Reference Lincoln Lewis’ recent missive responding to the recent declaration by the US, UK and EU on Guyana’s crisis in government, we wish to observe that the Guyanese penchant for condoning injustice has cost us 28 years under the PNC, 23 years under the PPP. There is no end to our moribund dysfunctionality as we continue to view the ABCEs as interfering imperialists. Lincoln Lewis among the many so-called leaders continue to be satellites to whichever party suits them. The Constitution is clear that elections should be held in 90 days. The Chief Justice confirmed Parliament’s decision on January 31, 2019.

The Constitution also provides that GECOM always be at the ready, even by implication, to hold elections whenever necessary. Accept that Granger violated the constitution by inventing ridiculous excuses for delaying the elections, from exhausting ‘legal recourse’ to confusion and mismanagement at GECOM. This is not to mention his unconstitutional appointment of the very person who ordered ‘house-to-house’ registration.

The ABCE’s have in recent times been trying to save Guyana and Guyanese from themselves, but Lincoln and others are yet to mature from their slave mentality days of ‘hating massa’. As with Jagdeo/Ramotar’s administration, they have billions of dollars tied up in Guyana, and they have the prerogative to establish and demand that conditions for releasing their taxpayers’ money are met. This is a concern that is also shared by Guyana’s very own Corporate Sector.

Yours faithfully,
Craig Sylvester,
Party Leader, Democratic National Congress