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Mar 14, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
In this election the people have to wrestle with the iconic question: “Who to vote for?” as they contemplate what to do.  How should the citizens go about answering this question? What criteria should they use?
We believe that they should examine the track record of the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime during the past 15 years because this election, like all other elections, is about the incumbent PPP government which must be held accountable for its failed policies.
If the people believe that the PPP Government has been effective, visionary and true to its manifesto promises, then they should re-elect them. If they do not believe this, they should vote them out of office on May 11.
Elections are about the performance of the minority PPP government and only partially about the majority APNU/AFC opposition.
Has the PPP been an effective government? Did the people’s lives improve under the PPP?
The answer is that the PPP has not fulfilled any of the campaign promises in the manifesto which were based upon seven developmental strategies – People-centred development; Poverty eradication within five years; National and personal security; Expansion of the Information and communication technology sector; Diversification of the economy; Good, transparent and accountable governance and people participation; and Sound foreign policy. It is important to note that corruption was barely mentioned in the manifesto.
After 15 years in power, there has been no poverty eradication under the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime. In fact, poverty has increased and the gap between the rich and the poor has widened.
Poverty has and continues to plague the country, so much so that it has become the breeding ground for criminals by the dozens, daily, and the PPP has not found any solution to the problem. There are no apprenticeships and technical and vocational training for the urban youth; neither are there jobs for them.
As it stands now, there have been no National Security goals or strategies to combat crime.  The government’s strategy has been to blame the opposition for the high crime rate and for Mr. Rohee’s failure to solve the problem. One has to just check the statistics for murders and armed robberies and they will be shocked. The first 70 days of 2015 have produced 28 murders and 14 are unsolved.
The PPP’s pursuit of the national and personal security goal has lacked focus and direction. Mr. Rohee has been in charge of the Ministry of Home Affairs since September 2006 and still does not have any ideas of his own to solve crime, except for telling the nation that crime is reducing. Nothing is further from the truth.
Guyanese have endured enough threats, abuse, vulgarity and corruption from the PPP with no disciplinary action and no indictments. Now they have witnessed the strange and brazen murder of Political Activist and Anti-Government Protester Courtney Crum Ewing at Diamond, with the most disturbing and suspicious statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs which linked the murder to the appointment of the Commissioner of Police.
But Guyanese are wiser than that and the murderers will pay for the assassination.
Too many people are uncomfortable with the raw use of power by the PPP cabal who have grossly mismanaged the affairs of the country during the past fifteen years. There been no fiscal discipline or any serious consideration of helping the ordinary citizens which is why the country is so poor and the crime rate is so high, notwithstanding corruption and State thievery.
Simply put, Guyanese have mongooses in charge of the fowl coop. The PPP has turned out to be a Trojan horse—a party that gained power by stealth. But its time is up.
So the question is: Who to vote for? That is a very easy decision, especially with the implosion of the PPP at Baby Jaan on March 9, 2015, where the audience and the entire nation were told in no uncertain terms that President Ramotar should kick the asses of the opposition. Disgusted and embarrassed by such vulgar and crude behaviour, members of the PPP are walking away in droves. The people’s choice on May 11 is the APNU/AFC Alliance—a pro-democracy unity party. It’s time for change.
Dr. Asquith Rose
Chandra Deolall
Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks

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