This election period is our time in history to demonstrate that we can unite as one

Feb 06, 2015 Letters

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Dear Editor,
WE doubt if there is another country in the world like Guyana whose dictatorial and corrupt PPP regime is imbued with so much internal political confusion, scandals and controversies. The country seems to have all the problems in the world under the PPP regime. Guyana has an inefficient, unprofessional and corrupt Police Force, a galloping murder rate, a high crime rate, an unstable and incompetent minority PPP Government, a long list of masterminds of criminal activities and hire for murder gangs, and a very weak and hypocritical PPP leadership that lacks tolerance and compassion and is arrogant, vulgar and abusive to the citizens because of the racial division which is encouraged and promoted by the doctrines of the PPP cabal.
The hypocritical PPP cabal claims that they support the Council General of Trinidad and Tobago, Ernie Ross for meddling in the internal affairs of the T& T government but yet they criticized the U.S and British Ambassadors for interfering in Guyana’s internal affairs. Go figure! And for Gail Teixeira and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carol Rodrigues-Birkett to announce that the PPP regime will establish a Human Rights Institute is not only laughable and hypocritical, but the two of them have become Guyana’s biggest jokers. It is all an election ploy and as we said before, the PPP cabal is notorious for their false and empty promises in every election.
During the last fifteen years, the PPP has not yet bred one recognized outstanding statesman of merit to mend the racial divide or inspire the nation. In fact, the deadbeats at Freedom House, especially the less-schooled Minister of Home Affairs, are still suffering from amnesia, willing to return to the strife of past decades which reflects their poor mentality. They seem to forget that they have not really achieved anything that has surpassed the achievements of the PNC and has not improved the standard of living of the majority of ordinary citizens.
Yes, they have repaired some roads that cost the taxpayers an arm and a leg and have awarded contracts to their relatives and friends and have become millionaires because of the kickbacks and bribes from these large infrastructure projects.
After 22 years of PPP rule, the people still have a shortage of water in certain areas, incessant floods, constant power outages, very poor medical facilities, roads with huge potholes, dysfunctional street-lighting, a failed educational system, more poverty, more homelessness, a high youth unemployment rate, a lack of care for the elderly, destruction of the environment, a growing generation of potential criminals, a life of living in fear and a bunch of greedy and corrupt hooligans who are perpetually raping the treasury and using the country’s foreign reserves funds and resources for personal gains.
These poor and adverse conditions, which began since Independence in 1966, have gotten worse during the last 22 years of PPP rule. When one considers the billions of dollars that have been squandered and stolen by the ruling cabal since Jagdeo came to office in 1999, the future really looks bleak for the country and the people. It is very sad to know that all the promises made by the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime during the last and previous elections have never been fulfilled.
What is more significant is the PPP regime’s deliberate and willful attempts to mislead the nation by distorting the truth on all of their scandals and corrupt practices. Is not so much that wrongful and illegal acts have and continued to be committed by senior government officials, but the country is virtually drowning in wrong-doings, corruption, mistakes, missteps.
The allegation of the vulgar and profaned laced conversation of the AG who admitted that he used the taxpayers’ money for personal reasons and the threat against an Amerindian citizen by the President are two cases in point. What is astonishing to the public, especially supporters of the PPP, is that such a debased act of deliberately distorting the truth or telling a lie can come from the mouths of those who the people trusted to govern them. What example are they setting for the youths? Definitely, they are not role models.
In this election campaign, the PPP cabal will manipulate the masses and camouflage their crooked ways with plain unadulterated misrepresentation of the facts which is difficult to swallow. But the bigger question is how the people can vote for the PPP which has become so indifferent to their plight and suffering and issues of self-respect and the dignity of the person.
Is it because of a culture of wrong-doing without consequence which has seeped deep into the psyche of the cabal who believe that their behavior is never an issue and that no one can hold them accountable for anything they do? Which is why the call for the resignation of the AG and the Minister of Education, who cussed down the US Ambassador at his residence fell on deaf ears. Truth, justice, fairness, trust and dignity are not some of the words that are in the vocabulary of the PPP regime.
With three months before the election, Guyanese have to re-commit their efforts to get rid of the slimy political parasites who have fed upon the wealth, hard work and their aspirations for the past two decades. They have to try just a little harder to forget party, race and sect and think about their children, community and country. They have to think about the positive impact an AFC-APNU coalition government would have on their lives and the country as a whole. It would be like the Christmas carol “JOY TO THE WORLD” which celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ.
We are not a nation of Indians and Africans, nor a nation of PPP, APNU and AFC. We are not a nation of Christians, Muslims and Hindus, nor a nation of Baptists and non-believers. We are a nation of people of diverse ethnicity, various religious beliefs and wide cultural diversification. We are a strong, beautiful, playful, trusting, loving, innovative and tolerant nation with a lot of positives to draw upon with a coalition government that cares and respect the people and which will not seek short-term personal gain to the detriment of our nation.
Now, today, this election year, we must come together. This election period is our time in history to shine and we must demonstrate that we can unite as one. In this election period we must demonstrate that Guyana and the welfare of the people be given precedence over race, religion and party. In this election period, we must cast aside our fears and bravely face the task of nation building and vote to elect an AFC/APNU coalition government.
This must be our aim. This must be our objective. Our children deserve no less. Our nation deserves no less. Law and order must be respected and restored and our communities must once again be flourishing and become places where our children can walk safely and play safely regardless of the time of day or night. We can do it. We must do it on May 11.
Dr. Asquith Rose, Chandra Deolall, Dr. Merle Spenser-Marks.

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