Interpretations of our early history re the UK and USA are often caught in the perspective of those who consider our colonial influence along with the US to be up to no good for Guyana. That may be true for the UK which was guided by complaints of the plantocracy of the time who lamented Jagan’s push for better conditions and wages for sugar workers. (West on Trial)
However Dr. Jagan’s self-confessed alliance to socialist/communist idealogy did not help his relations with the UK, or the US who considered also Dr. Jagan’s wife, Janet Jagan within the larger scheme of things. With Burnham not demonstrating the inclination of Dr. Jagan towards the welfare of sugar workers, the UK considered Burnham a more profitable choice as the country spun towards Independence. But Burnham had already imbibed on the politics of Communism and was somehow smart enough not to divulge his true leanings to either the US, or the UK. They were both taken aback and completely astounded that Burnham engaged in his scheme of rigged elections and ultimately nationalization in his quest to transform Guyana into a communist/socialist state. While to my knowledge none of them has done this, I think they, as Pilate did with Christ, washed their hands of whatever ties and relations they had with Burnham, and today look on as we try to now get rid of the corrupt regime that the PPP has become, and ensure that we also put an end to burnham’s dictatorial idealogies which live on in the PNC.
To understand our politics we must understand its influence, Burnham, who rigged the all the elections after 1964 and introduced ethnic violence and discrimination into to our society, his brainchild the PNC, which I refer to as the nation’s social disease, holding fast to his philosophy of dictatorial rule to this day as envisaged in their 2015-20 opportunity to be rid of Jagdeo’s and the PPP corrupt government. Those who ignore this have no good for Guyana, their quest being to pull a fast one on Guyanese. It is hard to explain Granger’s attitude to Indian Guyanese except to say that he was the best the PNC had to offer, the dogma and doctrine of ethnic marginalization that is the backbone of Burnham’s political idealogy. The PNC and PPP have disqualified themselves from managing our national affairs. Burnham has to be labeled for the criminal he was in our history. The many PNC supporters who balk at this idea choose to be lied to versus face the truth, prefering instead to be consumed by the PNC’s ethnic and dictatorial folly, remain in the wings waiting for the opportunity for the evil in their hearts to be justified by the authority of the PNC again. In Congress Place, the home of Burnham’s poison to Guyanese, whose financial liability to the MCC was never to be discovered, but has become the PNC’s dirty laundry, because Hoyte gambled on extending his principles of integrity and commitment to democracy. But that day will never come. Supporters of the PNC will never appreciate Hoyte’s contribution to our democracy. We have today to grapple again with the wanton corruption that proceeds from the seat of our government, the PPP.