Not one cent more for former presidents

Nov 12, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Over the years, I have learned to cultivate great tolerance for stupidity; still greater patience for the asinine. Tolerance snaps, however, whenever a word is mentioned about the benefits bill for former presidents. Here’s the short and sweet: not one damn cent more for anyone of them. To raise the issue of more benefits for ex-presidents is more than eye-pass, more than nauseating, more than obnoxious. It is more of the moneygrubbing schemes that come out of the money mad PPP brain trust, with its new ways to gouge the Guyana treasury more comprehensively.

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Forget about the numbers, how much they collect now, in aggregate. Forget about how much they live in the lap of luxury. Forget how they grow distant from the people who had put them where they were (and are). Simply recall all those who they gored and bled to death. What I place before every citizen-from ex-president, sitting president, departed president to every person, whether pasha or peasant in Guyana’s population-is simple. Ordinary Guyanese are gasping for breath, cannot afford to take care of their basic needs, are dying on their feet, yet the PPP Govt. is so vulgar as to persist with this abomination of a bill for more for ex-presidents. Guyanese are crying over how they will find the next meal, find food to feed their children, and there is this bill that is the epitome of the crass and calculating on how to make fat cats fatter, and the already rich stinking rich. If Guyana’s ex-presidents (all presidents of this country) are not filthy rich, then there are only dirt-poor people in this country, in which I must include the contractor class and the private sector royalty class.