Our leaders should focus on bringing betterment to our people

Dec 21, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I recently saw a piece written by Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, the Presidential candidate of ANUG entitled Governance Reform of Saturday November 30, 2019.
While it was a mediocre piece of political rhetoric on Guyana, it outlines briefly the Development Plan as stated by the President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, and sought to applaud the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce for such a Plan.
I wish to comment briefly.
Mr. Ramkarran feels that our country needs a governance system that has a good chance of breaking the cycle of political illegalities, violence and competition for ethnic supremacy which are the core political problems in Guyana, which he argues is responsible for our economic under-development, corruption, continuing poverty, crime and political instability.
I sincerely think that it is the actors who sit in the key seats of power who are actually the root cause of our country’s problems, not the system, necessarily.
Guyana is where it is at today with respect to its electoral system, for instance, mainly due to the likes and dislikes of the people who were making decisions for us for a long time now, most of whom, I may suggest, were all near sighted and narrow-minded.
Now, on January 10, 2020, there will be about 13 political parties contesting, among which numbers there are two serious contenders, and several dark horses. The time has now dawned for the leaders of these parties to focus on bringing betterment to our people, as we all know already that it will be a minority government when the results are tabulated, which I posit does not, for one moment mean, Guyana would reach the status quo of it being in a state of affairs of a political system of people monkeying around, and ultimately heading straight to a weak government in office from 2020 to 2025.
Right now, Guyana can’t solve any military incursions because of serious division in its rank and file. Guyana faces acute problems, I quite agree, but it the human resources it has at its hand-reach and they being placed in key positions, at the helm of such a minority government is where the solution to the problem really lie.
Yours truly,
Shabeer Zafar

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