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Politicians’ greed
Dear Editor,
Around the world, you will see that a few religious leaders and politicians have one common goal. They use whatever is happening around to manipulate persons for their financial gains without having any regards to the effect they are causing on society.
Religious leaders would criticize other faiths/religious groups to garner more support/members for their religious place of worship with the intention of accumulating a tremendous amount of money without thinking about that many donors are economically worse off and in dire need of help.
It doesn’t matter what we say about the donors, that’s a fact and many of the donors believe that they would be rewarded.
Similarly, politicians do the same. Make promises to people, but fulfill their own needs instead of the society.
Like the religious leaders, they skillfully manipulate their supporters’ minds against those supportive of other parties.
In Guyana, it’s very prevalent, even though crime, abuse in all manner, drug usage, and mainly, discrimination is rampant.
Guyanese would be living in relative unity/harmony for some four years, but immediately when the elections season is about, the dreaded racism arises from sleep by politicians and religions. I’ve come to the conclusion that those in power are comfortable the way things are and do not want to see changes even though citizens are willing to see changes in Guyana.
The results from the last elections could tell you that there is hope.
Editor, since gaining independence, Guyana’s affairs have been managing by two main parties, the PPP (mostly East Indians supporters) and the PNC (mostly Afro supporters).
When the previous government was in power, despite the condition of Guyana, many youths were given opportunities by putting them in decision-making positions.
A few even got Ministerial posts.
With the numerous promises especially for the youths, Guyanese decided to throw their support behind the APNU-AFC only to be greatly disappointed.
Instead of job creations, we witnessed massive laying off.
Youths were left standing on the sideline, whilst retirees/pensioners were given opportunities. Some four-odd years later, nothing tangible could be shown for youths or opportunity being equally given.
Youths will always be like a scapegoat in Guyana if they don’t start curving their own paths and avoid these political parties that are hell-bent on keeping Guyana racially divided.
They should revisit history and see that at a very young age, Dr. Jagan decided that Guyana should gain independence and he recruited the scholar Forbes Burnham and together, these two young men decided to take on great England.
Today, our youths are seemingly mostly soup-drinkers- they want everything to be served to them.
Very few youths are standing up to criticize the two main parties.
Instead, they are trying to groove into one or the other for a position.
It’s my humble view that should a group of young people come together and try making a change, they could be successful, once they were never attached to any party.
Finally, Editor, now that elections are close, there’s some 16 political parties and many of the newly formed ones comprised of mostly disgruntled members of other parties.
The AFC was formed like that with three main members- Sheila Holder, Raphael Trotman, and Khemraj Ramjattan.
Today, the two surviving members are holding ministerial posts whilst all sorts of accusations are being levelled against them.
I highly doubt that they could garner any votes for themselves based on their track record. Because of their greed for power, the public are seeing rumbling within the Coalition and within the AFC itself.
Likewise, accusations and character assassinations are being pelted against various parties and their members.
Based on all these political parties and their records, they are not to be trusted.
It is time a new breed of politicians arises. Guyana is tired of racism and corruption.
Sahadeo Bates
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