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PPPC second sheet – a primer for failure

Sep 19, 2025
Editorial

Kaieteur News – We are thinking of what to share about the PPPC Government’s new sheet of faces. The first reaction was that the new sheet bears too much of a close resemblance to the old sheet. It is dingy, ragged, torn in places, and looks several steps out of alignment with the president’s war plans against stubborn pillars of trouble in Guyana. How is he going to fight his war against poverty, war against corruption, and war against so many knotty issues in Guyana that refuse to yield, with the people that he has selected? What level of success can he expect, how much can he deliver?

The new is too much like the old, because right off the bat, social media took off early on Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after the new team was announced. Who was accused of predatory behavior? Who is not the best fit? It was of who has a dirty record, and who is bad for the government and Guyanese. It was the storm after the calm of the first week when the elections results were made official. By no sensible standard, can this be said to be a good start to the new term of the returning PPPC Government.

President Ali has opened himself to a barrage of licks. What was he thinking when he picked some of those who should be nowhere in government, other than in a facility reserved for special guests? Old skeletons were quickly dug up and displayed before the world. There was one about the PPPC Government’s team being the cream of Guyana’s crop. Somewhere along the line that crop developed a form of toxicity, since the cream is not just sour, but rancid enough to get even the tough sick. That was exactly what was experienced by some Guyanese, who got sick to their stomach when the president’s choices for his new team were examined. If that is the best that he could have done, then Guyana is in more than a dark place. Guyana is in a place from where there is no hope of recovery.

For who doesn’t have the stigma of a past problem, has the mark of scoundrel on his or her head. To a disturbing extent, what the president proudly, energetically, deposited before citizens was not a pantheon of patriots and heroes. What he gave Guyanese as their new government was, to a solid degree, a gallery that is heavily infested with dark characters, suspicious characters, and characters who are sure to be of interest to foreign law enforcement were they to step foot out of Guyana. The president has been beside himself with excitement relative the new programs that he plans to roll out right from the start of this his second term in charge. Those programs look good on paper, and carried well over the airwaves. The issue that we at this paper have is how is he going to get anything of substance out of some of the members of his new team. As we said before, the new team is too much like the old team in mentality, in practice, and in result.

President Ali and the previous PPPC government that he led has a unique record of which no national leader could be proud. It was obvious that the president did his best, but without much success, to employ a variety of defensive measures in efforts to gloss over the massive personnel deficits. When citizens should have been the beneficiaries of the unambiguous on how their business was run, from leaders to ministers felt that it was better to deal in bluff. When bluff failed to do the job, and led to more and more citizens getting the sense that they were being sold a pig in a bag, the government then resorted to an old and trusted weapon that has served it well in the past. It is how abuses of all types took on a life of their own, with many cowed Guyanese running for shelter.

A leopard doesn’t change its spots, and now here they are, a large party of them returning to sample Guyana’s riches. The newcomers either get with the program, or get out.

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