Will no one rid us of this pestilential, fossilised pustule? When are we going to have local government elections?

Mayor Hamilton Green hit the press to deny he had ‘race’ on his mind when he questioned monies spent to prepare the site for the specialist hospital. Green obviously thinks that Guyanese are all morons or have been dropped from Mars without any knowledge of the coded language of Guyanese politics.

Back in December, Green, also a member of the executive of the PNC, in reference to the “specialist hospital to be staffed by nationals from India, slyly wondered about “this move for some sort of re-colonisation? Those of us old enough will remember the effort by the PPP in the early 1960s to bring in a large number of persons from the Communist State of Kerala in India. Is this a retooling of that plan?”
Doctors to staff a 250-bed hospital – at most probably a few dozens – the bridgehead for “re-colonisation”? Who’s Green kidding. He knows the racial/ethnic fears that drive politics in Guyana. He should – he helped create them in the 1960s. It was a cold, cynical, and calculated provocation by the old PNC strongman to raise the temperature at a time when APNU was still checking SOPs, arguing that the elections were rigged.
Will no one rid us of this pestilential, fossilised pustule? When are we going to have local government elections?