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President Granger is a sound visionary

Mar 24, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Please publish this response to a letter headlined “President Granger is lacking in vision.” written by Lance Cumberbatch and published in your Kaieteur News edition dated Tuesday March 14, 2017. His Excellency finds himself between a rock and a hard place, sandwiched by those operatives of the previous Government who remain in public office and work to undermine the efforts of our Government and those so called supporters who are bent on waiting for handouts and spend most of their time complaining and demonizing our leaders.
At this juncture of our nation’s development let us ask ourselves what can we do for our country instead of what can our country do for us.
I am appalled at the level of disrespect meted out to President David Granger, a man of pure discipline, an intellectual extraordinaire and sound visionary. Those who have eyes to see let him see; those who have ears to hear let him hear.
An historian of no mean order, one who has stayed in the trenches educating a nation during the reign of terror that was unleashed upon this nation for over a decade. Then, destiny would have it; he arose, as a redeemer of a weary and down trodden nation. Many were beginning to lose hope which would have eventually led to catastrophic consequences. The great soldier that he is, he will not condone acts of violence upon the masses of this nation, as he will also be supported by right thinking men and women.
Those who have plundered the wealth of this nation are now calling on him to make bread out of stone; for all that they have stolen; why not be like Robin Hood and share it with the poor of your communities. For many years they oppressed the poor, magnifying their poverty, then, in return asked them to take to the streets to perpetuate mayhem and disorder, but this young Guyanese nation has grown wise and understands that it is being used. They will not defend those that have flourished on ill gotten gains, those who have robbed our children of a good life.
HIS Excellency is focused on educating a divided nation, ensuring that young people acquire the requisite skills needed to fast forward the nation’s development. Like President Linden Forbes Sampson, he recognizes the importance of hinterland development. We sit by the seaside on the coastland watching the tides roll in threatening our very existence, and think not about our wealth of gold, diamond, bauxite, manganese, uranium, platinum, molydenite, silica sand, our vast rivers rich in all forms of life, our eco-tourism potential, timber, our mountains, our vast savannahs for agriculture and cattle rearing, but the adage,” YOU CAN TAKE THE HORSE TO THE WELL BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE IT DRINK.”
Those of us who are bent on receiving handouts from the philanthropists will do anything to demonize our leaders. We have to be men willing to pioneer the source of our vast array of wealth. Mahdia was developed by pioneers of St Lucia and other small Caribbean Islands, who worked the gold and developed thriving settlements that we now know have been elevated to township. Guyanese wake up; you are the giant that remains in a sleepless slumber. We are called upon to be visionaries, we were created in the image and likeness of the creator we can do great things if we try, we can do it in unity we can make Guyana great.
RAs Aaron Blackman

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