PROVIDING HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS

Jun 30, 2015 Editorial, Features / Columnists

Guest editorial

On May 11, 2015, the bell finally rang for the people of Guyana. Now that the long campaign period is over, the APNU+AFC Coalition Government has work to do to convince the electorate that they are the ones to lead Guyana for the next five years.
Although it was a very narrow victory, yet the election of the APNU+AFC Coalition to office has brought hope to the hopeless in Guyana. That was the easy part, now comes the difficult task for the government to demonstrate to the nation how they intend to spend the taxpayers’ money to transform and diversify the economy, reduce poverty, create employment, end the widespread flooding and reduce crime, to name a few.
In practical terms, it is the responsibility of the leaders of the APNU+AFC Coalition Government to explain to the people what each one of them will do separately and collectively to repair what has generally been agreed is a fractured society.
How they intend to improve education and health care, unite the people and improve the well-being of the masses. Will they get the people involved in solving the conflicts in society that are associated with ethnicity and racial politics and harmonize the social divide into a oneness that recognizes equality, fairness, respect for the rule of law and that we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers?
President Granger and his team must be made to account for their stewardship. They must move away from the campaign rhetoric and explain their development strategies and the direction they intend to take the country. In the process, they must be prepared to recognize their failures. They have the intellectual capacity to overcome even the most daunting of challenges, be they social, economic, political or of whatever kind.
As transformational and visionary leaders, which Guyana needs desperately at this time, there is nothing that is beyond their ability to deal effectively with the nation’s problems if they put their minds and hearts to it. And they will!
The evidence of the damage done to the social and political fabric of the country by the previous administration is overwhelming but there is absolutely nothing to convince the people that the rotting of Guyana’s social and political fabric is too advanced to be reversed. In fact, there is always hope in hopeless situations and hope for the hopeless.
No social or political situation in Guyana or elsewhere is ever irreversible and no one is ever beyond redemption. Therefore it is unbelievable for the opposition to pronounce doom and gloom for Guyana under the new coalition government despite the fact that there is evidence that many countries throughout history that were in similar situations or worst have pulled themselves from the brink of destruction.
To assert that the nation is going to hell reflects a lack of insight into history. Unlike the previous PPP administration which was reactive, autocratic and without a conscience, the APNU+AFC Coalition Government is proactive, democratic and has integrity.
It is wrong for anyone to believe that Guyana has some long-standing and deep-rooted socio-economic and political challenges that seem insurmountable. The fact is the indomitable patriotic spirit embodied by the leaders of the Coalition government would lift the people up, provide hope for the hopeless and propel the country forward towards sustainable economic and human development.
However, given the divisive political climate in the country, one would expect the opposition to make more positive pronouncements about the direction in which the country should go rather than the negative declarations of where they perceive it will be in five years under the newly elected coalition government.
The people understand that by losing the election, the PPP which finds itself in the opposition is bitter and contemptuous of the new government. The bottom line is that the David Granger-led APNU+AFC Coalition Government must work to provide hope for the hopeless.

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