What will realize these high levels of governance being touted?

Aug 28, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee’s intimation at his last press conference of his party’s intention of realizing “the establishment of a broad National Democratic Alliance” that would comprise “various stakeholders and interest groups”, which would see “Guyanese electors benefitting significantly from higher levels of transparency, accountability, good governance and democratic rule”; all of which he envisages will result in “economic gains”.
If Mr. Rohee and/or his party could faithfully deliver on those finely articulated objectives, then he could count on my vote at the next general election, but what has prevented his party from achieving even a less than “higher” level in these same areas that he has articulated upon? His party has scored quite low in all these areas; more so under transparency and accountability, since the demise of the late, great Dr. Cheddi Jagan.
However, Mr. Rohee would need to explain that by his use of the comparative adjective “higher” in describing the levels of transparency, accountability, good governance and democratic rule that would be derived from this broad National Democratic Alliance that he meant his government is at minimum delivering a high (in the context of his use of comparative adjective) level of deliverables in these areas.
What then is preventing his own party, without an alliance with any interest group, from delivering a higher level of performance? And, please, I don’t expect blame to be apportioned to the combined opposition for his party’s failure to deliver a high level of performance, because the recent exposé on the Bai Shan Lin and the Vaitarna fiasco were not of the opposition’s doing. Why would the PPP be fearful of going to face the electorate if its performance is considered high in the key indicators of good governance?
What, therefore, will these “various stakeholders and interest groups” bring to the fore, more than what Mr. Rohee’s party has already brought, to realize high levels of governance?
One just hopes that the group of local oligarchies does not constitute the “various stakeholders and interest groups” that you are referring to; if not, Mr. Rohee, the population shall see such level of governance providing the kind of opportunity for each “interest group” to carve their own name and niche on the physical landscape of Guyana, that the name “Guyana” shall forever cease to be the name of this beloved land of ours.
Akash Sen Gopaul

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