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Nothing is being said or done that allows optimism about the future

May 20, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mr Kumar Doobay’s letter makes me want to join the forum on making legal bills into Acts of Parliament. As one whose touchstone is the rule of law, I have to agree that, enforcement issues aside, we cannot have a constructive life under a constitution being used as it was designed, to give absolute power to the minority in control of any government.
Today that power equates simply to personal enrichment. It brings us to the status of a failed state against which the world must use anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism financing regulations. Maybe our opposition parties see that as the only way to damage the interests of the executive, whatever the consequences for the economy.
Or maybe they see this current issue as an opportunity to bring about quick elections, trusting the electorate to give them the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution. If the latter, I don’t think they’re making quite the right noises. Nothing is being said or done that allows optimism about the future.
Which is why so many who hope for better have already left or are actively seeking to leave Guyana. Those abroad who could comment constructively have mostly shut up, and those left here can only occasionally dare to voice the kind of opinions I share with Mr Doobay.
Gustav Henderson

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