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Is it worth another five years under the PPP/C?

Oct 29, 2011 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
On Thursday morning, last, I was walking along Main Street in Georgetown, where I saw lots of people, old and young, sitting on the benches along the avenue, in deep conversation. Based on what I overheard whilst passing I reached the conclusion that our political situation is on most minds.
I decided to make it my duty to be outside of City Hall on Nomination Day and what I saw made me really happy and all Guyanese should be proud.
On the pavements on both sides of Regent Street there were lots of supporters of the different parties waiting to cheer them as they arrived to submit their lists, and they all where mixing with one another, joking around and ridiculing one another’s leader/party they are supporting, some of them going back in history to make their point. Now given our political history and based on the way they were arguing, one would have expected fights to break out, but thankfully there were none, even when one person passed and loudly said that when these two races gather together at one place at the same time “is some freeness giving away” People merely looked at him and turned away.
When the APNU contingent arrived I was mesmerized by the mammoth following and the hype that they created. I was really amazed to see so many people turn out and hoped that because of that turnout the supporters don’t assume that they won.
There’s a lot of ground work to be done until Election Day and hopefully they don’t depend on the leaders alone to tell eligible voters that they will not be seeing PNCR, WPA or JFA etc., on the ballot papers but APNU.
The supporters of APNU should take that as a sign and work more diligently to ensure that the response they had on that day continues until after a victorious Election Day for them, because based on the little picking that the PPP/C got, despite the free meals and transportation they provided, things looked bleak for them.
Come Election Day, I hope Guyanese study how they are living and ask themselves if it’s worth another five years under the PPP/C.
Sahadeo Bates

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