A new political party is coming on stream very soon

Apr 21, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I noticed an image of Granger being bandied about in the local press holding people’s kites and trying to look like the regular Joe. This man agreed to further impoverish Guyanese with the 2017 Budget, refuses to engage the private sector in policy discussions to lift the welfare of the country, and has the gall to come and keep the company of their children? Guyanese need to recognize that our politicians are doing severe damage to us with their ill-advised and backward policies. These people no longer represent our interests.
In fact, it seems that our attempts to improve our welfare such as protesting VAT on education etc., run counter their plans for us. I strongly urge we start questioning this man and his government ministers. All they are doing is playing politics while they continue the plot to deceive Guyanese to accept more of their political mediocrity.
It has been almost as long as the current administration’s reign that Granger announced his Green Economy. This is turning out to be pure political nonsense.
We have come to realize by now that Granger doesn’t know head or bull-foot about running an economy, so he ensured everyone was in the same boat with him by choosing the Green Economy model, which will take 50 years to implement. In the two years in office there has been only about one release on the green economy, this being that conjured up by rear admiral Best who by reason of his prior expertise, we can safely say knew nothing about any green economy in the first instance.
What has also become clear is that the Green Economy concept was chosen as a bit more than a time-wasting mechanism. Its very nature seems to facilitate heavy government involvement in planning and orchestrating of investments, thereby controlling who could get a piece of the cake. Its purpose was to give the PNC a chance to figure out how to use it, re-implement Burnham’s ideas of state-control and cooperativism. A piece on cooperativism has already been done in the state-owned newspaper
The man who was heralded as soldier, savior and protector of the state, by following through with Burnham’s ideas of cooperativism, where resources are state-owned and people are organized into cooperatives, has now become, like Jagdeo, an enemy of the state. The PNC, like the PPP, by not giving up its socialist dogma, finds itself trapped in managing a capitalist oriented state along its socialist principles.
The brutal tax structure in the 2017 budget is the first step in the gutting of the private sector. Government has to look to the mining sector to deliver growth this year, because little if any, can be expected to come from other major contributors. Left in power, the Coalition’s anti-business stance will continue to shrink the economic base, resulting in more tenuous and difficult-to-navigate policies.
Guyana has to start rating political parties and their governments according to the functionality of their economic policies. Both the PPP and PNC have failed miserably.
If we are slack in developing another party with the desired set of policies in 2020, we will fall right back into the hands of the PPP, which will reinstate its government wide corruption and drug-running without regard to employment creation or the plight of the public service, education or health or otherwise, while sugar workers continue to be dragged through the economic mud.
The 2017 budget was just the beginning of Guyana’s worries again because the PNC is on the way to reducing Guyana to the state it was before they lost office in 1992. But this time history will repeat itself chapter and verse. They will be booted again, but we have to start preparing to take the reins of the country in 2020. A new political party is expected to come on stream fairly soon. Get ready to join and take control of the life and future that was stolen from you. Equality of Opportunity for All, Equal Rights & Justice, Freedom of the Press. This we all are and can believe in.
Lance Cumberbatch

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