A NEW PARTY IS NOT THE ANSWER TO OUR PROBLEMS

Apr 27, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Problems are all around us. Humans have to keep solving problems on a daily basis to survive. From an individual level, putting food on our tables-making ends meet by budgeting our finances are necessary problem solving skills that the poor have to acquire to survive. On a community level, we build roads, bridges,etc. to commute and communicate. The increasing difficulties we have to solve our immediate physical problems seem to be straining our ability to comprehend and analyze the abstract. In our ignorance of the abstract we seem stuck in a mode where we desire new products that offer no solution to our problems.
I am referring to a letter by a Lance Cumberbach; “A new political party is coming on stream very soon”. Lance appropriately lambasted the Granger administration for their tax policies which he claims is “gutting out the private sector” and their green economy as “political nonsense”. He accuses Granger of becoming just like Jagdeo and not knowing “head or bull foot about running an economy.” What do you expect Lance? The President – historian with a military background. Imagine him going to bed a few moons ago and waking up with a brilliant idea-removing Guyana’s historical artifacts from the Walter Roth museum to create more office space for his government. How Funny! A historian with no sentiment for artifacts.
Lance finished by penning.”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.” Blah!blah!Blah!
Sometime ago Freddie Kissoon in one of his articles was questioning his heart whether he would or would not support a new party after his bitter disappointment with the coalition. Another writer was articulating between Freddie Kissoon and Nigel Hughes about whom voters on both side of the divide will accept more for a new party.
My point is that I cannot comprehend why all these luminaries cannot recognize the root cause of our problems. Any new party coming to power in this country would be riding the same horse the PPP/C rode which the coalition is riding now. This horse is the constitution of Guyana; it gives absolute power to its riders.
Absolute power corrupt absolutely. Any new party will follow the same modus operandi of their predecessors and for the umpteenth time; the populace will be disappointed and disheartened. How abstract is this concept for the luminaries in our society to visualize? The common people look to the luminaries in society for ideas to change their plight for the better.Telling people to support a new party under the present constitution is like leading them into a wilderness in search of a mirage.
Our constitution needs dynamic changes in the way we elect our parliamentarians. How good it would have been if while the 2017 budget with all its draconian tax measures was debated in parliament, people could have called their elected MP’s from their constituencies to say; “we don’t expect you to vote for that.” Our constitution needs to be changed to give us the power to elect our parliamentary representatives from a constituency. It must also allow for independent persons without political affiliation to run for parliament and the presidency too.
Rudolph Singh

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