Guyanese must ask if their country can move forward

Jan 20, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Any honest, logical, patriotic Guyanese – be they PPP or PNC – must ask him/her-self one question. Can Guyana move forward significantly with the current two-party structure of governance? A secondary question derived from that first question is; do the members of either party have the nationalistic breadth to do the right thing by the Guyanese people?
After all the atrocities that Jagdeo and the PPP did to Guyana, the PNC/Coalition came into power by a slim margin, pledging that they will (borrowing from Trump), ‘drain the swamp’. After two years, the PNC lead administration has added more gook and stench to the swamp. The country has become more corrupt. The corrupt ones of the former regime are still at large, while the PNC/Coalition has added some of their own. The swamp is now more crowded.
The Minister of Public Security said he will not prosecute those his administration spent billions of dollars to investigate. Just imagine, after the PNC-lead coalition spent hundreds of millions of dollars to prove what all of us Guyanese long knew (that the PPP players were fleecing the treasury of billions), we are again being told that the investigations and audits were all for naught.
This is the scenario,
1. The PPP were stealing billions from the Guyanese tax payers
2. The Guyanese people voted them out so that they could be investigated, jailed and made to refund the money
3. The PNC-C instituted forensic audits which confirmed that billions of dollars were indeed stolen by the PPP
4. The PNC-C now say they cannot prosecute the PPP thieves
5. The PNC-C have since begun its own conspiracies, knowing that they too will not be prosecuted
The fact is that over the last 50 years, the two-party system has not worked to catapult Guyana into the kind of economic and infrastructural growth the country needs and it is obvious that the leaders of the two parties do not have the discipline nor magnanimity to engender this kind of progression. The leaders of the PPP/C and PNC-C will continue to take the people of Guyana for a ride until some objective third-party is placed in the parliament that will provide some purposeful brokerage to the governance.
There needs to be a third-party (akin to the AFC, before it was contaminated), that will serve to mitigate the winner-take-all mentality of the PPP/Civic and the PNC/Coalition. The AFC can no longer provide that objective voice. The AFC’s Members of Parliament have been contaminated as they have morphed themselves into the PNC cabal and betrayed the trust of their supporters. A fleeting opportunity awaits the ever dwindling AFC supporters and that is the removal of the current AFC leadership. If there is a new infusion of untainted-blood into the leadership, then the AFC might (might) be able to turn this madness around.
The United Republican Party (URP) joins with the thousands of Guyanese locally and those resident in the Diaspora, to call on the voters in Guyana to elect a third party. There needs to be another voice in the parliament. A party needs to be placed in the parliament to create a counter balance to the PPP/C and PNC-C. The URP will serve as a “No-Confidence trigger”.
Should we fail to win the government, we will let any governing party who wins know that if they do not serve in the interest of the people, we will move a no-Confidence motion against them. And we will do this every time a new government is in place, until Guyana gets a government that functions to the benefit of all the people.
A new day has dawned. The Guyanese people have had enough of the political thievery, cronyism and nepotism of the PPP/C and the PNC-C. We are frustrated with the infrastructural and financial backwardness of our country. We are completely dissatisfied with our progress over the last 50 years and by God’s grace, we are determined to not spend the next half century suffering from the same depravity of the last half. We will fight to save Guyana from selfish, unpatriotic, politicians.
Dr. Vishnu Bandhu
Leader, URP

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