Mistakes are being made

Jun 18, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,
Political parties campaign vigorously and go about trying to convince people that their vision for governing the country is best should they win. Now this Coalition Government’s track record seems to be riddled with more mistakes/incompetence/allegations of corruptions compare to pleasing the public. Everywhere I go I hear complaints more than praises so I wonder how they will bounce from that.
I don’t believe oil alone can save our country. Look at our neighbouring Venezuela. Each party would have supporters from all over the country and many would join/support because they would need to see development especially for their area.
They too would have a tremendous amount of ideas and I wonder if the politicians would stop to listen to them after acceding to power. I don’t believe so.
Now over the years, I’ve complained of numerous things and make recommendations and many seem to fall on deaf ears even though they are important.
Recently, a six-year-old boy lost his life due to (my views) the negligence of teachers who were directly responsible for their safety given the location and condition of the area.
I’ve written about the riverine areas and the dangers lying there and even make recommendations but apparently, they are not important because I don’t believe any politician or their families could be affected whilst those directly in harm’s way continues in the same conditions.
We see the newly elected president providing buses, speed boats, bicycle etc., all over the country, which is very commendable but, these donations are not enough to handle the capacity. Many children still resort to the normal mode of reaching to schools and in the riverine areas, mainly boats, and some are very dangerous.
One only has to use the Social Media and occasionally they would see videos/images of the struggle. Now, one would see that none of these children has any lifejacket. I know that lifejackets are rather expensive in Guyana.
Now if our politicians have any sort of vision or care for this nation, they would have already put plans in place to either provide free life jackets or make them way cheaper for the school children because their way of travelling is very dangerous.
What’s the purpose of them hiring companies and individuals to write and print glorious manifestos election time and most of the plans/vision cannot materialize whilst simple problems cannot be solved? Can we say that we are a country with vision being run by the visionless or their vision is only focus on oil and their rewards?