A casual perusal of the delivery of past campaign promises resulting in the ‘Guyanese Dream’, whether it was the PPP’s New Guyana Man or the PNC’s Small Man is the Real Man or the Coalition’s Good Life, will show that neither the PPP nor the PNC has made that dream possible for Guyanese for over half a century.
In fact, when the Coalition defeated the PPP in 2015 by a razor thin margin of votes (4,500+), it was partly a sharp rebuke of the Bharrat Jagdeo-led PPP for its criminally corrupt excesses, which saw the PPP elite and associates enriching themselves off the finances, assets and resources of government amidst a burgeoning drugs-fueled informal economy.
That is why it boggles the mind that the same Stabroek News and Kaieteur News, almost conveniently and flippantly, ignored those incidents and rallied in the last 18 months to fight for the restoration of a democracy that could see the same Jagdeo wielding political power over a President Irfaan Ali in government.
So palpably disturbing was the Coali-tion’s performance that the December 2018 Local Government Elections results were used by Jagdeo as the catalyst to push his no confidence vote against the Coalition.
His most stunning failure since taking office was in not holding Jagdeo and his former government accountable for massive criminally corrupt incidents and the unsolved murders of scores of Guyanese, reported widely by local and regional media.
