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Who says age is not a factor in Guyana’s politics?

Oct 22, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Before you judge me for age discrimination, I wish to make it clear that age is not a barrier in its general context and I believe that experience plays a critical role for growth and development, but it has to be rightly placed. An 84 year old Chairman of GECOM is not rightly placed; even worse, he will be 87 in 2020.
The people deserve a Chairman with no question of their mental and physical aptitude to execute that critical role efficiently. This is not only an issue for the Chairman, but the same can be said for the President who seems to be making isolated decisions that calls to question his clarity, intention and foresight for Guyana.
I will put forward, that Guyana in its current state of affairs, cannot afford to have leaders that are too old to hold critical political posts, since they come from a toxic era that involved manipulation from the colonial masters and racial division, and this have made an inedible impact on their mental state where they were never able to move on from and transform themselves to lead Guyana into a different future.
All political apparatus in Guyana have been and still is affected by this dynamic with the exception of the late Walter Rodney who was the first to understand and successfully made the case to his fellow Guyanese. Unfortunately, it is widely believed that the PNC assassinated him. What is important to note is that Walter Rodney was only 38 years young when he died and he had already became a world leading scholar and intellect on developmental politics and history.
These old politicians have done a lot of harm by indoctrinating young people in the way of their toxic political past and we see this being a major obstacle today. Guyana must break free from this idea of separation to survive and start looking at unity to thrive. Sadly, Granger’s unilateral decision to choose, a clearly too old GECOM Chairman, continues the tradition of stagnated politics that only benefits the good old boys and girls.
Young people must take a stand and demand their right to be heard in all aspects of Guyana’s affairs, even if it means finding a new way to coin our political future. This decision calls for a “Parking Meter” like peaceful protest until these politicians gets the message.
Malcolm Watkins

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