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NO BETTER PLACE FOR CHRISTMAS THAN IN GUYANA

Dec 18, 2011 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

The message of the youth of APNU to the people of Guyana is to conserve. This is another way of saying punish the business community by not spending this Christmas.
They also want the Guyanese people not to support a certain television station that is ironically one of the few stations that cater to the musical needs of young people, as well as stay away from a major football tournament that is one of the best things to have come out of sport organization in Guyana over the past twenty years.
The youths of APNU do not need to remind the Guyanese people to conserve. Since Election Day people have been forced to conserve. Many were forced to spend their earnings and back pay to stock up on food supplies because of the fear of what would happen after the elections. And it was not the PPP or the AFC that those stocking up were fearful of. So, many, many Guyanese spent most of what they would normally set aside for Christmas so that they can stock up for the Christmas holidays. So they are conserving right now.
But from tomorrow when the December salaries and the Christmas bonus and the overseas remittances begin to flow, conservation will go right through the window. The youth of APNU can call for fiscal conservation all they want, people will not have time for that.
No one spends like a Guyanese at Christmas. No people in the world enjoy themselves like Guyanese. And there is no better Christmas than in Guyana.
If you want to enjoy a Christmas come to Guyana. This is where Christmas is. Guyanese go for broke at Christmas and even though many actually end up broke, they manage to survive until the next pay day.
That cannot change. Guyanese are going to empty the store by next Saturday midnight. They are going to spend and spend and no call to conserve is going to change that. In fact, many of those who are calling for people to not spend lavishly are going to be caught up in the Christmas fever.
No one is going to change that. Many have tried in the past to downplay the importance of Christmas, but all of them have failed.
So by tomorrow when the dollars begin to flow, the call of the youths of APNU will be forgotten.
The private sector will make a great deal of money this Christmas. And when you ask many of them how it was, they will say the same thing that they have said year in year out. They will complain that business was bad, but they will be smiling all the way to the bank.
It will be the same thing with the football tournament which is held each year. The youth of APNU can shout from now to January 1 for people not to support that football tournament. Come New Year’s Day there is going to be standing room only in the National Stadium at Providence.
All Guyana should be proud of this football tournament and how it has grown over the past twenty-two years. The organizers have demonstrated the importance of branding an event. This one tournament has done more for the standard of football in Guyana than any other tournament.
Guyana has gained regional respect because of this football tournament. Go to any of the islands of the Caribbean and people talk about that brand.
Instead of misguided youths calling for a boycott of this tournament, they should be inviting the organizers to give talks about the branding of the tournament and how it has reached the stage whereby they no longer have to solicit sponsorship. Businesses are tripping over each other trying to get on board.
All Guyana should be proud of the accomplishment of this tournament which has now become the model for the organization of other tournaments in both football and in other sports.
Guyanese are moving forward and this Christmas they are not going to bother with any calls which have as their implicit objective the fascist objective of punishing the business community because of one party losing an election.

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