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Translating talk to reality is where the Granger Administration has utterly failed time and again

Jan 03, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

A January 01, article in another newspaper titled “President announces launch of development decade” referred to caretaker President David Granger New Year’s address. From the article, we learnt that the President and his Administration, which have lost the legitimacy to govern, envisage that Guyana by 2030 will become a “modern state”.
According to the President, an Administration led by him will at last deliver the now worn out ‘Good Life’. That Administration, he said, would be “…eradicating extreme poverty…”, a goal, we believe, that is shared by all Guyanese. Mr Granger went on to say that “[t]he ultimate measure of the good life is happy communities, happy households and happy people.” The President is known for his lofty ambitions. However, translating that talk to reality is where the Granger Administration has faltered and utterly failed time and again.
The President and his Administration who will seek re-election in a few weeks’ time, will seek to convince voters that given another chance they will deliver not only the ‘Good Life’ but a ‘modern state’ and that they will end poverty in Guyana. But can we really and sincerely believe what Mr Granger and posse are saying and will repeat, we are sure, several times during the elections campaign.
Mr Granger says he will eradicate poverty. But let’s consider what he has done to the sugar industry. In less than five (5) years, he has put 7,000 Guyanese out of work and tens of thousands of his fellow countrymen, women and children closer to or beyond the poverty line. But to rub salt in that deep wound, Mr Granger has turned his back on these people who are probably in the most miserable time of their lives. Not once has he found the time to even interact with this group of now hard-pressed Guyanese.
So while Mr Granger will come again with fancy talk, big promises and grandiose plans, the reality is that his time in office has exacerbated than alleviated hardship in the country. His very decisions have pushed more into poverty and misery. His policies have burdened the Guyanese people with a growing cost-of-living while he and team live the Good Life.
Yours faithfully,
Seepaul Narine
General Secretary
GAWU

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