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The absconding of three Guyanese boxers
Dear Editor,
The report of the disappearance of three young Guyanese boxers at JFK airport in the USA on the way back from participating in the recently held Commonwealth Games in India, underscores the depth of the crisis affecting the lives of disadvantaged young Guyanese in the country of their birth.
The PPP and government need to be reminded that, during the last years of the PNC’s life in government, those of us who comprised the political opposition had referred to young people in the country as an endangered species and had pledged to do whatever was necessary to turn around their lives in a new dispensation.
Nineteen ninety-two has come and gone and over the 18 years of the PPP/C’s life in government, Guyana has witnessed the unprecedented actions of children and youths, some 16 years and less, most of whom were born under the PPP/C’s watch, bearing arms in a non civil war situation.
Any caring government would have made it their duty to try to understand the reasons for this phenomenon and would have taken steps to address it. But the PPP/C government chose instead to kill as many of those young persons as they could. That objective was achieved, but the problems remain and continue to stare us in the face.
The end result of the government’s failure to develop and implement meaningful programmes to advance all of Guyana’s young people and particularly the most disadvantaged, is seen in the existence of a generation of young people who are today totally frustrated and who believe that salvation lies in putting distance between Guyana and themselves.
Faced with a life of peril and untold suffering, rising drug use, hopelessness, escalating criminality, injustice, torture and unrestrained killing, no one, except those who benefit directly from the havoc in the society, will have an interest in staying around.
Desmond Trotman
Working People’s Alliance
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