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Boxing Night vexations and the hate young Guyanese have for their country

Dec 28, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Each day in this country, you see not only the helplessness of the presidency, the  Government of Guyana and the ruling party to instill some form of logic in their governance but the abominable, obnoxious display of incompetence that has no limits.
We are half a year away from a general election, and I am convinced that human beings cannot be that foolish to vote for the group of politicians that comprise the PPP in Guyana.
There cannot be a more crass and uncaring school of rulers as we see in our country today. Is it a lack of commonsense or just pathological incompetence?
You would think of all the periods in the calendar year where the President and his underlings will be meticulous in their observance of how GPL performs would be during the Christmas season. It is the time of the year when three successive days are put aside for family unions and enjoyment; they are Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. With the population of Guyana’s Diaspora being more than inside the land itself, there is always a huge influx of our fellow citizens coming home for Christmas.
The December holiday season is the time of the year when the Government and GPL should take extreme measures to see that there are no blackouts.
But the incredible incompetence and morbid hopelessness of the PPP were on pyrotechnical display on Boxing Day. We got disruption where I live (Turkeyen next to the Caricom Secretariat; remember the house where the trench in front was not cleaned by orders of the little Nazis) in the morning.
I was on the computer reading world news when it came.  I know this government is capable of the worst kinds of degeneracy but I couldn’t believe that on Boxing Day we would get blackouts.
It was a different kind of anger than ran through my body. I was terribly upset. Not during the holiday season. It couldn’t be real. I must have been dreaming. But I wasn’t. There were blackouts where I live on Boxing Day.
We were lucky though, it came in the day. If it was in the night, I don’t know what I would have done since as a family guy, I don’t go out on such nights.
For the evening of Boxing Night, I went to an internal party at Kaieteur News for the staff only.
It is a traditional small fun-event we host for ourselves every year. This year was quite surprising in that I never saw Adam Harris dance so excitingly in all those times we held our Boxing Day thing.
Later in the night, I went home to fulfill my promise to my wife that we will see two movies.
We were into the first one when blackout came. Titled, “All Good Things,” it is the true story of a real estate heir, who has been suspected of killing his wife, and a district attorney who re-opened the case after twenty years of cold storage.
This Government is capable of the worst bestialities in the exercise of power. It is simply inhuman and bestial to have citizens endure electricity withdrawal during the Christmas season. What kind of human beings are we dealing with in this country that would allow such terrible things to happen to the country? Blackout during the holiday season is just a horror show. It deserves the most tempestuous condemnation from every Guyanese.
I didn’t have guests in my home. But imagine the thousands of families who had to endure that degeneracy in the presence of their overseas relatives.
When that moment of disruption came, I walked towards the window of my living room and watched at the skies. The stars were out and they hugged the moon. I gazed at both of them and I wondered what is going to happen to my country.
Of course there were mad veins running in your body because the night before, the Guyana Government co-sponsored a concert at the Stadium where foreign artists including a US pop star (Ashanti) performed.
Is this the way they spend money and cannot guarantee the nation a reliable electricity supply for Christmas? Young people are not going to stay in Guyana. Two of my nephews came three months ago for a funeral and blackouts chased them back to Canada. They will tell their friends about Guyana.
Why are young people going to remain in Guyana when we are moving backwards?  Could a change in the next election bring us into the modern world?

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