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UK spies sought Canada help to infiltrate 1950's Jagan govt
Absurd
for UK Govt. to organize Wilton Hall conference Then
look at the representatives
they chose. Given
Prof. Persaud’s list of
issues to be addressed, who among this list have the necessary
qualifications, experience and will to make positive contributions
and change? If these persons are all here in Guyana and have made
no contribution of note, I can only think that they are looking
for a summer vacation. It
is absurd for the British to organize the Conference
in the first place (never mind the merits of Wilton Hall as an
institution). It is mind boggling that they can take it upon
themselves to exclude the government whose party represents the
majority of the people, and the Government itself administers to
the entire nation. Despite its obvious shortcomings and blindness
it has been democratically elected. What constituency does the
British represent? How would they enforce or implement any
decisions taken in UK except perhaps by a coup in Georgetown? It
is highly presumptuous for the British to treat us as if we are
still a British outpost of plantation servants. We may be a poor
and dwindling country but the British are totally out of order. Some
of the people they have gathered to take on the trip are the
problem. Most of them are too prejudiced and bigoted to make any
honest contribution to Guyana’s development. They are the reason
we are struck in the mud. Indeed, they should each get a one-way
ticket to London. There are more important things for the
British High Commission to help with in Guyana before offering
anyone a summer vacation. For
example, Nigel
Hughes’s dubious movements with criminals and
their activities, as reported in the Press (e.g. his removal of
the video tape in the Hamilton
murder has still not been satisfactory explained.
He consorts with all sorts of criminals, not just people who have run
afoul of the law and need to be legally
represented, but of known drug lords and those who plot to slaughter
innocent people.
Hughes frequents Buxton with impunity. Then, there is his wife,
Cathy Hughes’s and her racial triumphalism on certain racially
slanted TV stations-a sickly smirk on her face. And
Cathy Hughes’s father, Hugh Cholmondley, and Joe Singh who never
part their lips to utter a sound when Indians are being
Slaughtered, raped, robbed and battered for fifteen long months.
The Hughes/Cholmondeley families cannot dictate our future - they
are no experts even if they have connections with
Sir
Shridath Ramphal.
Ramphal and
Mohammed Shahabudeen
laid the foundation for the Burnham
dictatorship - the beginning
of the destruction of Guyana from which we have never recovered.
They have both feathered their nests and left us with the problems
they engineered. The
silent approval of WPA members, including Rupert Roopnarine, now
Chairman of the Parliament Management Committee? His frequent
visits into Buxton to meet the criminals is perplexing. Only he
can explain. The WPA, or what’s left of it, represents less than
a quarter percent of Guyana. Ms.
Sheila Holder’s every letter to the press is to justify the
slaughter of Indians, citing her black marginalization theory. Clive
Thomas’s recent economic and social analyses have been also been
tainted with the Black marginalization theory.
And the Mayor must resign because he has failed monumentally to
manage Georgetown and its environs. The
Guyanese people have no confidence in this team chosen by the
British. And that is the second objection. The
PNC/R leader must demonstrate he can behave responsibly before
going anywhere. The recently signed communiqué must be given a
chance to work. It makes sense to call off the show. We are
grateful for British aid but that does not give them the right to
browbeat us. Peace and harmony cannot be one-sided. It cannot be
unilaterally imposed or imperially dictated. It must come from
within. President Jagdeo has taken a courageous stand. The
people of Guyana are living together as one people, but some of
the people on the British team have succeeded in making deep
divisions in our society and in organizing and maintaining terror
and strife in this country. And, ironically, these very persons
have been chosen to find the way to peace. It’s mind-boggling. We
would be eternally grateful if the British can help us to flush
out the intellectual authors, their accomplices and supporters
behind the fifteen months of terror emanating out of Buxton.
Those of us who have seen our loved ones slaughtered cannot sleep
at nights, we cannot be sure that this nightmare would not recur
unless and until the authors, doers, accomplices, planners,
lecturers, supporters, providers, the whole criminal
network of men and women, are exposed and brought
to justice. High Commissioner Hiscock, please can you help us in this matter?
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Nigel Hughes, a prominent lawyer and former president of the Guyana Bar Association.
