A man for all reasons

Dec 02, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
December is upon us. Some Guyanese have already started preparing for the upcoming festive season hoping that it will not be ruined.
The Christmas season starts with carols hitting the airwaves in November but instead we had the jingles of the parties contesting the elections. Store owners usually start enticing us early to shop and spend our money but they are on hold and Regent Street has been quiet as a mouse.
The atmosphere in the city is tense and work has been disrupted with some employers sending their employees home early as rumours abound about imminent troubles in Georgetown. Good sense seems to be prevailing and the politicians and civil society have been calling on the nation to be calm.
Every election since 1992 has been marred with violence and disturbances, the worst being those of 1997 and 2001. The 2006 elections saw minor troubles but as a nation, we are wary of the elections season, 2011 seems no different.
Unlike St. Lucia which held its general elections on Monday and a winner has been declared in Dr Kenny Anthony, Guyana was, up to early today, still sitting on tenterhooks waiting for our president to be declared and for the nation to move from elections mode into the festive season.
This election like the others since 1992 seems to show disregard for democratic practices. Whether we like a candidate or not and therefore voted for someone else, democracy means the person who garners the highest number of the votes cast is the nation’s president. The will of the people is reflective by the votes they cast.
Donald Ramotar, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate, campaigned on the strength of the government’s record in office for the past nineteen years. The opposition parties made accusations of corruption but what they could not deny as it was staring them in the face is the distinct transformation of this nation into one of dynamism under all PPP/C administrations. One would be stifling one’s conscience not to acknowledge the progress Guyana has achieved to date.
The opposition portrayed Mr Ramotar as never having served in a Cabinet post since 1992 and therefore being unfit to be the PPP/C’s presidential candidate. However, they deliberately overlooked Mr Ramotar’s contributions at the party level as though the position of General Secretary (GS) is a trivial one.
Whatever the outcome of the general elections, Donald Ramotar has been a worthwhile presidential candidate and would be a president who upholds the democratic gains made since 1992. He is prepared and able to take Guyana and all Guyanese unto the road of future success under a continuing PPP/C administration.
Sadie Amin

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