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The road to a new Guyana appears littered with the wreckage of the empty messages
Dear Editor,
There is certainly a buzz around Guyana since the discovery of oil in commercially exploitable quantities. Every day you can read something about Guyana internationally, be it in the Oil & Gas Journal, the New York Times, and so on. But no one speaks about the Guyanese economic prospect because the high risk of wasting all these funds because of corrupt ruling politicians and weak national institutions.
When President Granger spoke from the Parliament Buildings on May 16, 2015, he said, “Let us now put past rivalries behind us and work in unity to banish poverty, ignorance, fear, and hatred. We assemble here today to witness the swearing in, not of a party leader, but of the President of all the people. I shall be a good President for all the people.” Editor, What do you think of his rhetoric now?
Between the rhetoric and the reality, all we got from Team Granger so far was a fairy tale after they spent some G$1.1 trillion of the taxpayers’ money. One is struck by the complete lack of commitment and competence by Team Granger toward this concept of the “good life”. After four (4) years of Grangerism, the road to a new Guyana appears littered with the wreckage of the usually PNC empty messages from the past. These messages – “the good life”, “a government of national unity”, “the opportunity to offer democratic renewal”, and so on, were all offered by Mr. Granger personally. But since that offering, all that Team Granger has done was embarked on a massive administrative disaster fueled by high levels of policy paralysis and gross incompetence. This situation is nothing but a bad omen for the Guyanese people.
Very little of what they promised, they have delivered after these four (4) years.
These people promised to solve the endemic problems of corruption, nepotism and domestic terrorism (crime) but they have not. It was Mr. Granger himself who promised to “protect our citizens” using his so called military training to guide policies to allow the Guyanese people to feel safe. Today every woman, man, and child are at greater risk from being robbed, murdered or physically harmed at the hands of the domestic terrorist (drug infused kick down the door armed bandits included).
Thus, if one reflects on these Granger phrases, they appear as mere subterfuge and deception. All that talk on the foyer of the Guyana Parliament on May 15, 2015, were really a smokescreen for the real agenda, which Team Granger pursued diligently since coming to the office. The rational middle was fooled because regardless of how you dress up the Team Granger, it is nothing but the same old PNC with its nepotism, political intolerance, major acts of conflict of interest, executive incompetence and financial squander.
That is their legacy. The Granger legacy! The PNC legacy!
Regards
Sasenarine Singh
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