Guyana

A nation betrayed
By the PNC and the PPP
An open letter to all East Indian Guyanese
By: Dr Michael Cuba Ryan, LLM-JD

APANJAT was the word used by Dr Jagan to

start a culture of treachery, hate, and death.
For decades, the East Indians and the blacks in
Guyana have not trusted each other. On the
black side, it was distrust on the Indian side it is
hate.
Different organizations in Guyana have made
failed attempts at bringing the two races
together.
They attempted to the nation but no one had the
courage to keep it real and deal with the issue of
race head on, they wanted to be politically
correct, in their language and approach.
“Coolie people hate black people and black
people don’t trust coolie people, we were told
as children that the best coolie is a bead
coolie when you bun he and coolie people
were told that black people smell horrible,
lazy and would rob and kill awe, na trust
them black man.”
Now that we got that out the way, let us talk
for real.
This information is for the Blacks and Indians,
who are too young to know what happened and
how this started,
Many many years ago, Burnham and Jagan were
good friends they were so close that Burnham
became Godfather for Joey Jagan who is Cheddi
Jagon son. That is how close them banna was.
Burnham and Cheddi formed a political party
called the PPP, yes the PPP. Burnham was a
founder member of the PPP.
Down the road Burnham mek he hights and left
the PPP and formed the PNC. Some people say
Burnham was a CIA pawn and the American
government wanted Jagan gone, so they help
Burnham to start he own thing.
All this time Indians and blacks were good
friends, eat, and drink together.
Big rioting started as the two parities started to
fight for position. Everybody holding meetings
and everybody telling their followers what
happen and twisting the truth until Cheddi got
mad and shouted to his people APANJAT!!
OH MY GOD, APANJAT? That is a word from
India that means (stick to your own kind) what
Cheddi Jagan was saying to your Indian grand
fathers was we were no longer British Guianese
we are Indians and them is Blackman. He (Dr
Jagan separated us from that day.
Suddenly blacks and Indian in the then British
Guiana discovered that they were different, we
were no longer one people, one nation, with one
destiny. We were enemies. The seed was
planted.
This reminded me of the Bible in the book of
Genesis where Adam and Eve were running
around the garden naked, then suddenly the
snake arrived and whispered in the ear of Eve
and told her to eat the fruit.
For you people who read the bible you will
remember that it was only then that Adam and
Eve realize that they were naked and the destiny
of humanity changed.
APANJAT is the word used by Dr Jagan that
separated over forty years ago.
Cheddi made that mistake, and some others too
nevertheless, he was a good man.
After Cheddi had died, we as a nation heard
so many good things on the radio and TV
about Dr Jagan that I cried. I felt that the
PNC had poisoned our minds so much, about
whom Dr Jagan really was that we were
robbed of a good man.
Likewise, the PPP poisoned the minds of the
Indian man in Guyana so much that they
hate blacks with a passion.
These betrayals by both parties are driven by the
hunger for power rather than putting the interest
of the nation first.
At this time, I would like to address my
Indian brothers and sisters and my black
brothers and sisters.
We were made fools of and betrayed by the
political parties we support.
 Both the PPP and the PNC for their own
egotistical ambitions and political life have
separated us. Many Indians and blacks went
to their graves without being able to interact
in love with their next-door neighbor because
they had to live that lie of a life of hate.
Some loved their neighbor and could not
express it in the open.
Our country is in this position today because
of both parties.
We were tricked, the trick continued for over
forty years. All over the Caribbean Indians and
blacks love and show love for each other, when
are we in Guyana going to give up on hate.
In the southern parts of the USA, total strangers
greet each other on the street both black and
white and never before have they ever seen each
other.
We have no respect for each other at home so
why do we expect citizens of other countries to
respect us. Why we are angry when are refused
entry and deported.
When we look around queens New York, in the
Indian community you see we are so divided
that we exported our racial prejudice there.
Racism in Guyana has become so perfected that
we export it to other countries where we live.
Shame on us.
We need to start greeting each other on the
street blacks and Indians alike, and say to each
other “I LOVE YOU” we need to stop this type
of madness.
We are like a woman being played by two
men who we trusted.
MARK BENCHOP, have in the past called for
racial synchronization, a call that was never
truly made by the two major parties.
The PPP and the PNC are stuck in the past.
They have become irrelevant to world politics,
Guyana, and the rest of the world.
The PPP are paying us $100.00 Guyana dollars
per hour, which is much less than $1.00 US
Dollar per hour. We are the lowest paid in
Caricom and the third lowest paid in the
world. Nevertheless, we find time to hate each
other.
We as a people are so focused on hating each
other that we miss that. If we loved each other,
we would see that we are being used by the PPP
and when the PNC comes to power, they will do
the same thing to us.
How can you protect your daughter from being
a prostitute at a young age on that wage, or your
son from going to prison if you continue to let
this government Do you like that?
The PPP for some reason have become scared of
the change Mr. Benchop brings to the table.
Mr. Benchop has exposed corruption at the
highest level of this government.
The only answer the PPP government had to
proven charges of their corruption was to get
a fake search warrant and break in the door
to Mr. Benchop home, as the common thieves
they are.
When the Magistrate who signed the warrant
was contacted, his public statement was “if I
had known the true facts I would not have
signed the warrant.”
Had Mr. Benchop not been a man of integrity,
he would have claimed he had One Million US
dollars in his house, which was given to him by
donors. However, the integrity in the man would
not have allowed him to do that.
This is time for a change, by the next general
elections when the PPP and the PNC come
around with their drinks and food and ask us to
vote for them, LETS EAT THEM OUT,
DRINK THEM OUT. THEN VOTE THEM
OUT.
Guyana needs new blood to take us further. If
you as Guyanese have any shame you need to
let the HATE, the PPP and the PNC go.