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Some reasons behind the fall of the Gov of Guyana

 
Narper 2018-12-23 10:24:07 

Even if you do not like the PPP, it is hard to see the ruling two parties that have just been voted out through a no-confidence motion as fit and proper governors. The concatenation of mistakes, incompetence, reckless spending, pulverization of poor people, neoliberal insensitivities, profanities, irregularities, stupidities was overwhelming. It made them not fit and proper to continue

President Granger, when asked how Dr. Bynoe will run the Energy Department when he isn’t qualified in that area, said; “don’t worry, Bynoe will find people who know about oil and gas.”


Freddie Kissoon

 
Narper 2018-12-23 10:27:48 

So, I am not surprised that the government fell the way it did. I don’t blame Charrandass Persaud, although I would not have voted the way he did. He expressed the frustrations many of us felt, both at the personal and political levels.

I watch from close-up the disrespect meted out to small parties. My party, the WPA felt the full force of it. They closed down APNU to deny us a voice in decision-making. They shoved us around. They ignored us. They fired our representative from his post of Minister of Education. They then took advantage of his illness to block another WPA member from serving in Cabinet.

The feeling of marginalization that Charrandass expressed is all too well-known to some of us. This government had great disdain for consultation. The AFC leadership went along with it. That party’s top leadership abandoned its independent voice and chose power over principle. They failed to listen to their own independent voices from within. They forced Nigel Hughes away, because he dared to ask them to be more independent. In the end, that neglect of their expressed promise to be independent brought the government down.

Dr David Hinds

 
Narper 2018-12-23 10:34:48 

What unfolded on Friday night was a development desperate to happen. It was not about treachery or betrayal; there was always the possibility that with a razor-slim, one-seat majority, a no-confidence motion could succeed at any time, or that the work of the government could have been stymied by its inability to get Bills through the Assembly.

The fall of the government was always on the cards. But the haughty, hubris-filled and arrogant government did not recognize this possibility. The government behaved as if it had a ten-seat majority and an unbridled mandate to govern. It used its one-seat majority as if it had a two-thirds majority.

The no-confidence motion could have been avoided. The Leader of the Opposition made certain demands, which were ignored in the 2019 Budget. The Leader of the Opposition wanted the VAT on water and electricity and medical services removed. He called for the subsidy for water and electricity for pensioners restored. He demanded that the $10,000 school grants be reintroduced. He asked for the increased water and land charges to be withdrawn by the MMA/ADA, the 2% final tax for miners to be restored, and for slashing the increases in water tariffs, fuel prices and university fees.

The conduct of many of his Ministers embarrassed President David Granger. Some of them were unfit to be Ministers. But they were retained, even though they constantly brought the government into disrepute.

The scandals surpassed even those under the PPPC. Much of it was shameless. All of these things were fodder for the Opposition during the debate of the no confidence motion.

It is no use blaming the AFC Member of Parliament whose vote allowed the no-confidence motion to be passed. He explained that his party was going along all the time with the government, and that its actions had caused distress within his constituency. If it was not him on Friday, it would have been someone else some other time, because the AFC did not appreciate the need for it to maintain an independent position within the government.


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Emir 2018-12-23 10:40:42 

In reply to Narper

Freddie is missing the point. Nothing, nothing he stated is a good enough reason for Persud's vote.

It is like saying I don't like my house anymore, so I am going to burn it down, and I don't care about the occupants inside the house.

Do you want to see Guyana go back to the dark days of an "Indo" dominated party or do you prefer a path towards a sustainable non racial democracy?

 
Narper 2018-12-23 10:45:34 

Complacency might have been the cause. Was the party in close contact with its parliamentarians? I doubt it, although Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo claimed that he and Charrandass Persaud were at a social function rubbing shoulders on Sunday.

Did he heed the intelligence provided to him? Certainly not, because he would have known that Persaud was a shadowy figure within his party. Both Nagamootoo and Ramjattan claimed that the man never voiced any discontent, but this man has friends and he did speak with many of them.


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Titleist 2018-12-23 10:54:02 

In reply to Emir

If you are as open minded as you think you are you would realize that the very things you are preaching against are the same things you are consumed with, when it comes to certain countries, Guyana being one of them.

 
ray 2018-12-23 10:58:47 

In reply to Emir

Yuh skont don't about dark days....yuh ever hear about Burnham?

 
Narper 2018-12-23 11:11:10 

In reply to Emir

I have in my quotes well known people who have fought from the trenches to remove the PPP from office.

They are relevant and credible in their assessment....as far as I know....they have lived in Guyana almost all their lives

YOU ARE ILL INFORMED AND IRRELEVANT....and only interested in the angle of racism

 
SnoopDog 2018-12-23 11:24:48 

In reply to Narper

Three letters caused that govt to fall - P N C. cool

 
Runs 2018-12-23 11:28:44 

They had square peg in round hole as ministers. Bunch of dunces. lol

 
SnoopDog 2018-12-23 11:32:50 

In reply to Runs

The voters have seen through the lies, facade and naked corruption of the AFC. They will be lucky to win one seat in the next election Bro.

I expect some good ole fashion PNC rigging or at the very least attempts to rig a few ballots.

 
Runs 2018-12-23 11:34:47 

In reply to SnoopDog

lol hope the new Amerindian party wins a few seats

 
SnoopDog 2018-12-23 11:46:56 

In reply to Runs

Sugar workers starving and those wretched PNC fcukers passing bill for wife murderer Hamilton Greene to get a golden pension.

Disgusting.

 
Emir 2018-12-23 12:00:48 

In reply to Runs

At the end of the day, a party is going to get elected to form the next government. Given Guyana's history, which party would you like to see form the government?

 
SnoopDog 2018-12-23 12:13:16 

In reply to Emir

At the end of the day why don’t you mind yuh own fcuking business.

 
Runs 2018-12-23 12:13:55 

In reply to Emir

Broad based coalition, do not want dominance by any. We need checks and balances, no corruption, must govern for all Guyanese cool

 
SnoopDog 2018-12-23 12:27:13 

In reply to Runs

You don’t even have all those shiny things in Murica.

 
Runs 2018-12-23 12:35:02 

In reply to SnoopDog

lol

 
sgtdjones 2018-12-23 13:55:43 

In reply to SnoopDog

In reply to Emir

At the end of the day why don’t you mind yuh own fcuking business



razz razz razz razz

 
sgtdjones 2018-12-23 13:57:44 

In reply to Narper

YOU ARE ILL INFORMED AND IRRELEVANT....and only interested in the angle of racism


This senile doofus can't take a hint.

he embarrasses all Trini's

redface redface

 
goofballs 2018-12-23 14:09:44 

In reply to Runs

Bunch of dunces.


What is wuss dan a crook?

A dunce crook! smile

Why people waste their breath on this racist Burnham manifest. Obsessed with "Indo" and more dunce than the Ministers who don't even know what a non Christian major religious national holiday is.

Sheer brute force and ignorance at play. But they feel important.

 
Emir 2018-12-24 08:12:26 

In reply to goofballs

Obsessed with "Indo" and more dunce than the Ministers who don't even know what a non Christian major religious national holiday is.


Perhaps because Hindus celebrate Christmas more than Christian themselves, so perhaps the Minister got confused.

 
ray 2018-12-24 10:23:27 

In reply to Emir

dude...shut yuh bigoted anti hindu skunt

 
goofballs 2018-12-24 10:52:44 

In reply to Emir

Oh Papa Gaddo Lawdo! lol lol lol
A light of brilliance like you have to try harder than a Gov't employee to come up with this.

Perhaps because Hindus celebrate Christmas more than Christian themselves, so perhaps the Minister got confused.

 
goofballs 2018-12-24 11:33:33 

Perhaps you do not know, despite your anti Hindu rants and strife, Hindus do not put an exclusive hold on "God" but have been all accepting and accommodating to all in whatever way, shape or form.
It is written.
God is in every creature, even Miyaji. Just let the Godliness in you come out.

What primitive tribes or people do in the name of HIndu or whatever religion is another thing.

But, it is written, we are not mere children of God, we have God in us, in the "genes", we are all part of the cosmic energy.
But people forget that and get caught up in cheap, hateful,divisionary, materialistic tactics that just detract them.

 
ray 2018-12-24 11:47:51 

You should not be a representative in the Govt if you don't know the major holidays and celebrations of the people

 
dayne 2018-12-25 10:46:38 

Politics is a messy business in all countries, but it is amazing how the most devious people rises to the top and how careless the common men are with their votes.

 
shivnotout 2018-12-25 13:01:46 

In reply to Narper

yes men puppet lol

“The APNU had total control of what happened in Parliament and the AFC objected to nothing. There was never a discussion with the AFC backbenchers on any bill or motion. We were to vote as the Govt. side voted… always,” Persaud pointed out



Further, Persaud revealed that at the time, he, along with AFC members Audwin Rutherford, Haimraj Rajkumar and Michael Carrington, wrote to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and copied the letter to AFC Leaders Raphael Trotman and Ramjattan.
The four AFC backbenchers without portfolio asked that the AFC have a caucus before they entered parliament so that their votes and responses on bills could be synced.
“That never happened. We were just numbers,” Persaud noted.
When it came to the closure of the sugar estate at Wales, Persaud claimed that they knew of it when it happened, and it was the same for the closure of the Rose Hall Estate
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