Our problem is a political problem and it needs a political resolution

Jun 08, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I really believe the PNC-led Coalition blundered by not calling elections as was constitutionally due following the no-confidence vote of December 21st, 2018.
Over the past six months that the coalition has retained power by resorting to subterfuge, it has demonstrated even more clearly its ineptitude and inability to govern Guyana, and is unlikely to deliver on its electoral promises.
Members of the Coalition have legitimate academic accreditation, yet the construct of their Government is of old wood that makes the buildings rotten and unstable and ready to fall, endangering the lives of its occupants, infested with roaches.
The roaches here are the white collar criminals who are rampant in our society, alongside others. The Coalition is no longer in control and the Agricola accident has proven that it has not the political will to govern. Its complacency in handling the situation because of its political implications has added fuel to the escalating crime situation, emboldened deviant behavior, and is made worse by its own self-denial.
Editor, there is a crucial need at this time for clear thinking, on one western front, swarms of Venezuelan refugees are entering Guyana. Our sovereignty is seriously compromised while internally the capital city is under siege by criminal gangs. Our problem is a political problem and it needs a political resolution.
Fifty-three years have passed since Guyana has become an Independent state, trillions of dollars have been spent by the PNC, PPP and now PNC-led Coalition Government, but economically the country has remained stultified, the vast army of the unemployed has swollen, with more than 20 thousand workers given marching orders under this current Coalition Government comprising the PNC, AFC, WPA.
But at the other end of the political spectrum, all these politicians have become filthy rich and are enjoying the “Good Life“. The attendant evils make our headlines every day. What has happened to the good men and women of civil society that once were…?
With the passing of Sister Andaiye we are reminded that there was once a woman who courageously stood up for Human Rights and Justice, for Guyanese women. Maybe if civil society had demanded Justice for Sheema Manga, the Blackberry cellphone murder victim, things would not have gotten out of hand.
The resort to mob justice is not the way forward in a civilized society, but Guyanese politicians seem to flourish under these conditions. So blinded by their greed and political ambitions that they cannot see the writing on the wall, that it is just a matter of time before the state of lawlessness comes their way.
Yours Respectfully
Desmond Alli (General Secretary, Guyana United Artists)

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