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We asked for a change, we got it, so let us work to keep it in range
DEAR EDITOR,
May 11, 2015 saw a number of firsts for Guyana and the population at large. It was the first multi-party and multi-racial coalition, and the first time that Guyanese displayed such unsurpassed enthusiasm for the polls, and also, the first time that there is a Government in place to serve all the races.
The issue of being cheated and not defeated is hopefully a slogan of the past, or at best, a topic for another stage and page. Granted the margin of victory was small, but it’s a win and not a sin. Now the eyes of everyone are focused on the President to bring about the changes or carry out the promises made during his campaign. Yes, all Guyana voted for change and I strongly feel that there are some changes that must be effected faster than others. We cannot afford to wait for some changes to take their courses, as waiting has already proved fatal for some hapless citizens. I refer to the unabated loss of lives due to gun violence, especially since the elections.
As stated in the lyrics of the well-known song by Sam Cooke “A change is gonna come”— It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky. Sadly some citizens were not afforded the opportunity to see the true change, and went on to discover what lay within the celestial realm. They lived to see Election Day and that’s all there is to say.
What a display of spurious irony! Here we are on one hand, happy and exuberant that at last the country has freed itself from the previous government’s stranglehold of poverty, corruption, employment, strong-arming, crime, nepotism, dirt, stench etc., and on the other we are murdering each other at a higher rate than previously.
Can we say we are truly a people? Can it be assumed that we only wanted changes in some areas and not in others? Or that only some of us wanted changes? Sad but true, the murder rate in any country is an infallible indicator of the value that the inhabitants place on human life.
There have been obvious changes since President Granger took the helm, but an urgent call is being made for steering the ship a bit closer to the shore and examine the carnage caused by firearms.
We asked for a change, we got it, so let us work to keep it in range.
Yvonne Sam
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