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Oct 15, 2011 Letters

 

 

Dear Voters,
After nineteen years of being misled, mistaken and misgoverned, we will finally get the long awaited opportunity to go to the polls on November 28th, 2011 to arrest the reigns of power from Bharrat Jagdeo and the politicians in his government who joined him in taking advantage of us for nearly two decades.
We have been the victims of this government’s rule. We have seen how this government has turned on us, taxing us out of dollars that we do not earn, selecting preferred school districts to receive government funding, while, in our districts our children sit in schools with broken roof tops, no teaching supplies, poor academic programs and a severe shortage of enough teachers to teach the number of students in each classroom.
We have seen how our living conditions have plummeted under Jagdeo mismanagement. Shanty towns have become a sad but real part of housing for too many of us and poor drainage continues to give us public health challenges.
Zoning laws are no longer in effect. Our once residential neighbourhoods are riddled with donkey carts, bingo houses, and stores; all of which were once reserved for areas of commerce.
Guyana, once the bread basket of this region is now one of the poorest countries in South America and the Caribbean region with the poverty being worse in the Amerindian communities and other areas outside of Georgetown.
Our nation is known as one of the world’s HIPC’s – Highly Indebted Poor Countries- yet we boast a rich hinterland, with gold and diamonds, evidence of crude oil, and significant portion of the world’s rainforest.
We remain a poor, struggling, deprived nation  while the political leaders who are supposed to be governing for the benefit of the population are using the government to wage a social and economic war against us.
We are disgusted, fed up, tired, frustrated and we want change.
To get change we have to vote. We have to go to the polls, come November 28th 2011.
Now is not the time for us to remember who in our party made us angry. Now is not the time for us to be distracted by those who feel that this is time for them to switch party alliance. Now is not the time for us to be swayed by elegant speeches and fine writings. None of that will help us to rid ourselves of the Jagdeo regime.
What will help us is our votes. We have to vote. We have to go to the polls, people. It is wrong to think that staying home or submitting a blank ballot will hurt our Parties.
No people, that will only hurt us; those of us who are underpaid, underemployed, unemployed and unhappy.
And worst of all failing to vote or sub,itting  a blank ballot  may just keep the current regime in power.
So come November 28th, 2011 let us go to the polls and tell the politicians who we are. Let’s tell them that we are tired of being down trodden and abused. Let’s tell them that we have the same right that they have to fine life styles. We want the prosperity that is ours. We want the freedom that is ours.
Go to the polls on November 28th 2011 and vote for ANY PARTY BUT PPPC.
It is our obligation as Guyanese to restore the legacy of excellence that is ours. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to our children. We owe it to those who gave their lives for us to live in a nation that gives us the right to prosperity, freedom and quiet enjoyment
Let’s Do This.
Verian

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