MV Barima -What is Truth….

 MV Barima –What is Truth….

‘What is truth?’  It was Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, who famously asked that of Jesus Christ.  I ask the same question of the PPP Govt: what is truth?  Relative to the now sunken MV Barima.  Then I go further: who in the PPP Govt has truth in them?  Re the MV Barima; beyond this boat to hell.  To draw closer to real truth, there was reaching out to people who plied that route for decades.  Plus, people in the shipping sector.  Plus, people of that area’s heritage; now its anguish.

For starters, cargo onboard can be much more (dangerously more) than what’s recorded.  Cargo loaded from top to bottom of what was a laboring, creaking, on-its-last breath dhow.  Add miners with the heavy equipment and appliances of their trade.  Add paying passengers with and without tickets.  Add children that may not be ticketed.  These all add up.  Only the surface is scratched, however.

Next, the MV Barima was an overdue ICU case.  Before putting out to pasture.  To pasture, not back in passenger service.  The truth is that, despite its severe handicaps, the MV Barima was repaired and patched up, when it ought to have been retired. 

Think in human terms.  Think of a dreadfully diseased ICU patient.  He is given some methylated spirits, and a full wheelbarrow to push, and a cart to load.  Last, the gasping patient himself has to haul the cart, as if it is a rickshaw.  There are neither mules nor donkeys around.

Separately, sending a management team home is a joke.  Too late to save one lost soul.  Means nothing for people shredded by their griefs.  Why wait for a disaster that was pending for years before there is action?

Truth be told, the entire PPP Govt has blood on its hands.  There are no innocents. 

Official spinning smears a tragedy.  It was the reflexive action Sunday morning.  Propaganda piles on indigenous agonies.  Crocodile tears degrade people dealing with unfathomable loss.  Losses for some.  While some were laffing and sportin’.

Today, the marine transport section of Guyana finds itself under harsh public glare.  I don’t think that’s a cure (sending home). 

I see a confluence of weaknesses; the sick way that this country is governed; part of the corruptions and coverups.  Year after year, state institutions and entities that form the bulwark of the Guyana Government’s face to the Guyanese people, have been infiltrated.  Then, generally overrun by politics and corruptions that dilute the standards and promise of Guyana.  Almost across the board, and in a long list of departments, PPP Govt selectees have turned a blind eye, dropped the ball, and fallen down in the performance of their jobs.  In the delivery of services that is safe and sound for Guyanese, what carries them to another level. 

In sum, the marine transport agency, and as harrowing as the MV Barima sinking is, it is not the disease itself.  Both are just symptoms, offshoots, of what festers fatally beneath the surface.  It is how a government has destroyed a country.  A government with virtually unlimited power and unquantifiable money, and that is all that it’s capable of: destroying a country.  Its standards.  Its morals.  Its systems.  Its funds.  Its aspirations.

In the PPP Govt, and with few exceptions, what Guyanese contend with is a combination of: Con artists, pathological deceivers, shifty concealers, and countless dirty tricksters.  Over 150 Guyanese, most of them poor, had to die, for the rest of Guyana to learn how the PPP Govt is a blight and a horror on this nation.

What is truth?  It is of men and women with only darkness in them. No truth.  No light.  Regardless, don’t lose hope.  There will be celebrating religious holidays before long.  Xmas is coming.  Why bother with a month of national mourning? 

Look at the kind of people that perished.  There’s that type of truth, too.  All should be pierced.  Could be the One Guyana that is desired.