Dear Editor,
When I look at the impressive lineup of persons for nomination as the PNCR presidential candidate for the 2011 general elections, I see good people one and all. But as in any contest of this kind only one winner will emerge.
I therefore urge that whoever that winner is, he or she immediately and earnestly embrace the losers and give them prominent political space within the party and eventually within the new national dispensation.
I am privileged to know all the candidates, some better than others and they all have their respective skills, experience and track records. As a team or as part of one they would be hard to beat and remarkably good for Guyana.
This ‘Magnificent Seven’ should start a discourse among themselves immediately. It would be the greatest test of how much they care about their country and for its battered, disillusioned, despairing people.
The nation is aware that all the contestants are preaching unity and cooperation. The acid test of their sincerity would be their willingness to work together as equals in or out of defeat at the PNCR internal elections. Guyana will be watching the ‘Magnificent Seven’ with interest! F. Hamley Case