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Guyana’s future lies with its youths

Sep 26, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
In 2011 young voters between the ages of 18 and 35 are likely to represent more than half of the total voting population. This reality places enormous power in the hands of our youth of both genders, all ethnic groups, religions and different levels of educational achievement.
General elections are the great equalizer. The high school drop-out and the law student and the young teacher have exactly the same status on Election Day. Each has one vote and those votes are equal. In fact it is the same single vote that the middle-aged doctor, the trendy shop assistant, the informed journalist and the President will have.
While people in professions, in the services and in work generally tend to use their vote, the less fortunate members of society – the unemployed, the uneducated and those deemed as marginalised often do not.
This worrying trend, known as voter apathy, can in 2011 deal the most devastating blow to Guyana’s future prosperity, security, stability and the happiness we deserve.
It is important that youths register to vote and uplift their ID cards. Failure to do so will mean failure to vote. By not voting, youths as a single voting bloc will have no one but themselves to blame for the hardships and despair that will follow as sure as night follows day.
In every sense Guyana’s future post 2011 lies with its youths.
F. Hamley Case

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