Aug 20, 2024 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Kaieteur News – Exxon’s Lord Alistair Routledge of Permian-by-the-Demerara has been conspicuously silent in recent days. He has good reason; in fact, the best I would contend. Lord Routledge now has an army of willing Guyanese at his beck and call to do Exxon’s menial jobs (dirty ones), so he doesn’t have to get his lily-white hands sullied.
Considering that the company has a right to pay its money and put up its offensive billboards (Jagdeo said so, not I), I take the same position. That is, Exxon has a right to hire any Guyanese mercenary to do ugly duty for it for a fee. Obviously, the bigger the better, and there has been no shortage of Guyanese takers for Exxon’s cheap and nasty dollars.
Absorb the following. GHK Lall First, I commend Exxon for recruiting those skilled Guyanese who perform honest duties at the offshore rigs, others doing legitimate work elsewhere. After that, the road runs out of space, not one millimeter left.
I have only total scorn, utter contempt (for emphasis), for those Guyanese who collect Exxon’s dime for the wrong reasons, under one pretense or another. It could be a PPP political luminary, and I don’t care: traitor. It could be a PNC/AFC superstar, and I’m immovably locked in the same harsh place: betrayer.
When poor Guyanese can manage, however they are able to do so, with Bank of Guyana currency, so must they. One more thing is worthy enough to be placed in the public rec.
