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What transformation can Granger deliver?
Dear Editor,
It was pleasing to see President David Granger speaking at a public meeting on February 3, 2019 at Vreed-en-Hoop. From the media reports, it appears that the President is feeling better and his health has improved.
One can assume, too, that the President is ready for the rigors of the elections campaign and thus expectedly himself and his colleagues will end the denial to Guyanese of their inalienable right to exercise their franchise.
This denial says a lot about the sincerity of the President’s respect for the Constitution and the rights of the Guyanese people.
Important as that is, the President, according to the February 4, Stabroek News edition, is quoted to have said to his audience, who were largely outside of the Vreed-en-Hoop area, that “you will see the transformation, the change in every community, the change in every region, the change in every village”. I wondered what change was the President speaking of.
Is it the transformation in Crabwood Creek, where scores of sugar workers who were employed at Skeldon Estate not having sufficient meals or was it he was speaking about the people of Canefield, Canje not being able to send their children to school or was he referring to the wives of Patentia having to face bare cupboards? Is this the change and transformation he was talking about?
Maybe it was about the people of Guyana opening their electricity bills and see VAT being charged or it could be, having to find more monies to pay to catch a bus to work or school though fuel prices have reduced. It could well be the shock of seeing the high cost of water now-a-days or facing serious illness and told by the public health institutions that there are no drugs.
The transformation under President Granger’s Government has seen thousands moving from employed to unemployed. Tens of thousands having their lives plunged into misery and their dreams to yearn for a better tomorrow dashed. That transformation has seen us, the Guyanese people, paying nearly $200B in taxes last year.
It has seen our Government practically giving away our oil resources. And it has seen that rallying call of a ‘Good Life’ becoming an ignominious, hollow, slogan.
So while the President may boast about towns, boats, buses, and so on, how have they meaningfully transformed the lives of ordinary Guyanese who live whether in Lethem, Waini, Bush Lot, Georgetown or elsewhere?
Today the President, while I am happy is in good health, has failed miserably to deliver the transformation he espoused and promised. Today, can the Guyanese people sincerely give the President another chance to take us further down the road to nowhere? I think not!
Yours faithfully,
Patricia Persaud
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