Pres Ali, VP Jagdeo and AG Nandlall have the opportunity now to stop the hemorrhaging of rule of law in Guyana

Dear Editor, President Ali has a golden opportunity to show his essences. A man of bluff and fluff; or one possessing the right stuff. Vice President Jagdeo can be reborn, prove to Guyanese that deviousness and he are strangers, that his compass is of clean leadership. Attorney General Nandlall has an opening to demonstrate what he is truly about – someone that genuinely respects the majesty of the law. Or a man made of straw of the weakest fiber. In the event that Prime Minister, Phillips is upset that his name doesn’t feature, he can be reassured that his day is near. Five years ago, the president made a big speech about he is for transparency and accountability. Those two words may mean different things in other languages, but I took it that Guyana’s president had English Language meanings in mind. I don’t like to be wrong. So, today, Pres. Ali has his work cut out for him. The PPP Government (his) has been of the transparency associated with sleaze and the sewer. Facts have fled. Truth sent into exile. And leadership besmirched. I nod at U.S. developments relative to gold smuggling in Guyana and whose prints are all over that enterprise. Somebody owns that business, and the president’s people say that it is me. A caution for the president and the others: American Ambassador Nicole D. Theriot and her team have all the intel they need about who smuggled, who continues to smuggle, and who are the ones invested in it. That kind of info is a two-way street. From GT to DC and from one of those Greek or Roman government structures in the U.S. to U.S. territory in Guyana. Excellency Theriot is in the know; has plenty on her hands, mind. Pres. Ali is smart enough to figure out where gold smuggling matters stand, and the names that feature in those. Don’t shoot the messenger, Dr. President. Vice President Jagdeo has been all smugness. Guyana is not North Korea. But he has a Palace Guard. Guyana is nowhere in the category of 1930s Germany or the East Germany of Walther Ulbricht. Talk is dirt cheap. For there are those who are recruited to wield batons and crush a few objectionable skulls. Undesirables are what both Uncle Joe Stalin and the Feuhrer of Germany called them. When a government, the PPP Government falls to such depths, and loves it, then the gutter is cherished as a castle. The PPP can have it. But where does that leave its leaders? When truth and light are feared, then darkness has descended on this land. Guyana may not be the Transylvania of Dracula, but already it is overrun by its own Princes of Darkness. For balance, the princesses must also be recognized. I am the king of gold smuggling. This is how friends and flunkies of leaders engage in truth juggling, the reworking of facts with remarkable developments from Florida. This blows back into the PPP face. AG Nandlall is ready, steady, and heady with nervous energy: extradition will happen, once the papers come off the typewriter. Anyone who can remember major financial benefactors discarded so swiftly is invited to share with the public. Listen to AG Nandlall and he is the epitome of blindfolded justice, a man of law, one who respects the law. Like HE Ali and the honourable VP, the AG now has a full plate before him relative to the provisions of Guyana’s Cybercrime Act being violated and ravaged at will. Which side of AG Nandlall will turn up: the man that says how much he respects the law and its rule? Or the one who is pleased by his convenient blindness, deafness, and voicelessness? Now is not the hour for gutlessness, Mr. Nandlall. The world is watching. Big indictments about gold smuggling coming out of the U.S. Who was in, who was in the bosom, who was aided and abetted, the path cleared for them, by the government looking the other way? Take money from people, and ways must be found for them to make it back. Return on invested capital that is called. To Pres. Ali, VP Jagdeo, AG Nandlall, this is bigger than anyone given license to revile and defame citizens, conscientious and law-abiding ones. Or all of the slanderers, be they in press conferences, or hide behind the skirts of the Prime Minister’s office. Bigger than me. This goes to the heart of the integrity of the presidency, AG Nandlall’s laws, the standards of leaders, the potency or impotency of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority. Where is it? All those areas cannot be so depravedly indifferent to crimes being committed in plain sight. But they are. Gold smuggling frees the wicked genie. I am ready to take this to the ends of the earth.