Jul 24, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Calls fly with increasing speed for heads to roll. Officials must fall for the MV Barima tragedy. More for the misinformation disseminated. Less for the losses. Whether resignation or removal, what difference does it make? Where’s the positive for the Guyanese people? They need truth and justice. Not roping in the MV Barima fallout and continuing with obscuring. The past is the best teacher.

A senior public servant was sent into the shadows by the PPP Govt. Who won, who lost? Certainly, it wasn’t the senior public servant, who may have had wings clipped publicly, but is now a bigger bird. Another public official, also of considerable rank, was allowed to resign, only for a greater accumulation of power to occur. This is a true-and-tried PPP tactic that cleverly retreats in the face of advancing public anger, only for the maneuvers at which the party is so skilled to takeover. When a man or a woman in the PPP Govt. that has erred egregiously is reluctantly withdrawn from the public space, they don’t disappear from the scene. There’s always a Congress waiting to welcome them, to garland them with more honors. Hence, what purpose resignation or removal? A charade in the past for temporary public appeasement, then a rebound later. Often in the open, and with a finger wagged in the face. See! This is the PPP Way. How it’s done!