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Guyana has decayed under the PPP
Dear Editor,
John Da Silva is right that persons are entitled to their views and must be free to express them (Kaieteur News, 13/2/2009 “Guyana is in no state of decay”).
In order to quantify and qualify progress, Da Silva boasted, it must be compared to something.
Free and fair elections are meaningless when they do not translate into freedom and fairness for all between election cycles. Freddie Kissoon and others call it an elected dictatorship.
The 2005 Great Floods and destruction were not because of heavy rainfalls, but more because of breaches in the conservancy dams. Nobody got valued compensation for crops and property damaged or lost. People got handouts that should never have been if the conservancy was not breached.
New schools, colleges and a university were built during the PNC. Universal education from nursery to university, free uniforms and school feeding programme are legacies of the PNC. The PNC expanded health care and built facilities.
It instituted the Medex, Food and Health Inspectors, Medical School, and new categories of nurses’ training. With the PPP, students pay for university education. News schools and health care facilities continue to be built, but graduates, teachers, nurses, Medex and doctors are migrating in droves.
The PPP inherited President Hoyte’s Economic Recovery Plan (Obama has the same plan) which delivered growth unto 1997. After then, Guyana went sliding down the cliff. There was no 16 percent VAT. The PNC left office with the exchange rate at US$1 to G$119.00. Today, it is G$204 to US$1.
The PNC housing developments provided quality houses, roads, utilities, recreational facilities and shopping centres. Examples are the Ruimveldt schemes, Tucville, Stevedore, Shopping Plaza in Georgetown; Wisroc in Linden, Tucber and Kwakwani in Berbice; Anna Regina and Queenstown in Essequibo; and Kustev in West Demerara. There is no equivalent under the PPP.
The PNC built the Demerara, Berbice, Linden and Essequibo roads and highways, to name a few.
Crime, narco-trafficking and corruption have reached unprecedented levels. Phantom squads, Lindo Creek, Lusignan and Bartica massacres are frightening experiences. World leaders know Guyana is corrupt, violations are rampant, Guyana is under the USA drug radar, Guyana is among the poorest nations, and has bad environmental practices. They would not be impressed with the President. Given the comparison, Guyana has decayed under the PPP.
Donald Issacs
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