There is a solution to Guyana’s dilemma

Mar 04, 2019 Letters

Dear Editor,
For the first time in a very long time I was left utterly and completely depressed after reading my favourite daily, The Kaieteur News. Please allow me to clear up any misunderstanding that may result from my introduction. This veil of depression and hopelessness that has draped itself over me visited after reading some of the articles in the Sunday edition.
The news cannot be any worse or can it? I must remember that my letter is about Guyana. While we are scrambling for the scraps, foreign companies are devouring the hog. Rusal is for all intent and purposes the undisputed masters of our bauxite resources in Berbice to the point that our impotent government is only left to approach them on hands and knees begging for a fair deal for our Guyanese workers.
What is happening with that industrial dispute is nothing short of a national disgrace, a slap in our collective faces and sends a troubling message to potential investors, Guyana is a country filled with a bunch of spineless wimps waiting to be exploited. No doubt Exxon Mobil is paying close attention and from the reporting in Kaieteur News they already have hands around our private parts. Guyana has now become an enclave of the Chinese with their cheap, sub- standard and dangerous products. Not to mention their sub- par workmanship, Marriott and presently the CJIA as reported and even more troubling their take over of business in Lethem. As I read these glaring and alarming instances of sloth and apparent disinterest by our officials
I was left not only angry, but asking myself, “Who the hell is in charge”? Meanwhile, poor and destitute Guyanese, the forgotten and despised, are burned out of their shacks and not a single government official is on site to offer immediate and much needed assistance. Being poor in Guyana seems to be a contagious disease that affects a select minority of Indo, Afro and Native Guyanese relegated to permanent underclass status.
Meanwhile the rich gets richer and The APNU – AFC administration is stuck in cement as Jadgeo is licking his chops in anticipation of raping Guyana and Guyanese once again. I am convinced more than ever, that the only (possible) solution to our dilemma is a government of National Reconstruction with the PPP and PNC out the driver’s set, and not in exclusive control as was and is the case presently.
A formula MUST be devised that puts control in the hand(s) of an across the board representative body. Party control has been a monumental disaster for Guyana and has only served to widen the ethnic divide. Indian producers cannot eat all of the bora and callaloo they reap from farms Afro Guyanese are needed to purchase same. The point here is, our relationships are symbiotic and interdependence is at its root. One People, One Nation, One Destiny!
Respectfully,
Claudeston G. Massiah

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