Latest update June 1st, 2026 12:19 AM
The problem for this new regime is how to convince the Guyanese people they are to be trusted
Dear Editor,
The madness continues in our dear mud land. Two weeks ago I pointed out that the new regime has started out ingloriously and the extremists jumped at my throat.
The extremists are speaking out now only because a majority of Guyanese are against the 50 percent increase in salary for the boys and bosses.
Now, this salary increase has been the most inglorious of all previous inglorious starts, plunging Guyana into a tail. The new regime is not concerned that such a move will whittle away any gains made so far. Rather, it is more concerned with the effusion of loyalty within itself and simply stoic and stubborn to any public outcry. The silence is deafening.
Where are the boys and bosses? One would expect that the public needs a follow up. The mantra seems to be: Deal with the salary increase, it is here to stay since the motto is higher income invariably brings greater outcome: less bribery, less stealing.
The salary increase emerged not because of design but because of deprivation. Missing from this scenario is that untrained Ministers are not ready to carry out mandated responsibilities.
There also seems to be a mismatch between responsibilities assigned to various Ministers –Carl Greenidge comes readily to mind – and the capacity and capability required for their accomplishment. Moreover, the performance of the new regime has revealed how a short distance it has travelled in a short time.
Realistically, the regime seems to be regulated by the very ministries it supposes to regulate. This sounds like putting the cart before the donkey.
The new regime has few choices but to overcome these early inglorious starts and chart a positive course to ensure that the balance between the needs of the people and political preservation is practiced.
To do otherwise would run the risk of repeating the mistakes so experienced by stubborn regimes where a one-term party in office is a common echo. It has already started and the problem now for this new regime is not Venezuela and Suriname but how to convince the Guyanese people they are to be trusted.
Lomarsh Roopnarine
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