We MUST continue the fight for righteousness in Guyana!

Jan 26, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I wish to respond to Mr. Winston Mars’s letter in another newspaper on 24 January, 2019 about my writings in the media as a citizen.
I would like to make two points in response to Mr. Mars’s comments: Firstly, I have made a decision a long time ago to serve Guyana and Guyana only. What that means is that for most Guyanese like me, who do not have dual citizenship or even a residency in another country, Guyana is our only home. So Guyana has to work for us, it has to!
I am also a member in this democracy and as members; we have a responsibility to participate.
Secondly, I have given consideration many times to refraining from this space (the newspapers’ columns, as a citizen) but every time I attempt to do that, I think of all of those people who meet me in the streets and say thank you for writing, thank you for expressing our views. Some say to me that I am the only female voice in the political and other critical governance discourse.
Winston Churchill said that ‘if I was able to see far, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants’; we, the women in the Guyanese society are the giants upon whose shoulders the society stand. Our women hold the Guyanese society together, yet they are not necessarily playing a main role in decision-making. For sure, they are in leadership positions, but they have less influence in the real critical and serious decision-making in the country.
So is it that Mr. Mars is hinting that I should not continue to be that female voice on political and governance matters in this hardcore masculine society? Or should our people stop being citizens while they contribute in other areas of the society?
Albert Einstein said that ‘the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything’. Maybe if I had the option like many others and I can shuttle off to another home in another country, I might not care so much, and would remain silent and support the status quo.
Honestly though, had I been quiet, and supported the status quo, both now and previously, I would have been more economically stable and more comfortable, enjoying the finer things in life, but definitely not happier.
The bible says that ‘For creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed’ (Romans 8:19). And Proverbs 29:2, ‘when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn’.
We MUST continue the fight for righteousness in Guyana, so that the people will be happy! We should not remain quiet, because people who are in leadership look like us, that is one of the main reasons our country is in this state after 53+ years.

Yours faithfully,
Citizen Audreyanna Thomas

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