“Set aside differences and cooperate for the common good” – Pres. Granger on 50th Republic Anniversary

Feb 23, 2020 News

Head of State, President David Granger, has made a call for Guyanese to set aside their differences and band together for the “common good” as Guyana celebrates 50 years as a Republican State.
President Granger in his address to the nation, stated that Guyana celebrates this milestone with a “sense of satisfaction.”
“Mashramani, the festival celebrating our Republican status, is an occasion for all Guyanese to set aside their differences and cooperate for the common good.”
He called on Guyanese to work together to “place Guyana on an irreversible path to greater liberty, unity and prosperity.”
“This Anniversary evokes emotions of pride and patriotism. There is satisfaction over the nation’s progress over the past fifty years, and expectation over the prospects for the future.”
Granger said that the 50th anniversary marks the commencement of the ‘Decade of Development: 2020-2029’ seeing progress in every sector.
In the Decade of Development plan, educational achievement, economic growth, energy security, environmental protection, constitutional reform, governance, social cohesion, social protection, infrastructural improvement and international relations are among the key pillars that will be addressed.
“We live in a country that is protecting its national patrimony – its coastland, grasslands, highlands, islands, wetlands, lakes, rainforests, rivers and waterfalls.
“These physical features, together with our magnificent fauna – animals, birds, fish, insects and reptiles – are wonderful natural assets.”
Further, the Head of State said that Guyana is in transition to becoming a ‘green state’.
This, he noted, will place greater emphasis on the preservation of the environment and biodiversity, the promotion of the generation of energy from renewable sources and the implementation of measures for climate mitigation and adaptation.
Granger pointed out that Guyana boasts as a country that is enjoying high levels of growth and human development and with accountable government and greater equality.
“Ours is one in which everyone will be able to enjoy equality before the law, education that is free, employment that is satisfying and an environment that is safe and healthy.”
He explained that “statehood represented a substantive fulfillment of our people’s aspirations to chart their own destiny by refashioning their social and economic relations, introducing new national institutions, affirming sovereignty and advancing towards the goal of self-reliance.”
According to him, statehood brought us to the realisation that the common good is greater than the sum of our individual interests.
“Our country has progressed over the past fifty years on the basis of this principle. It will continue along this path during the Decade ahead.”
“I extend best wishes to every Guyanese for a happy Anniversary, one in which we will enjoy the bounty and benefits of the Decade of Development, the most exciting and exhilarating in our nation’s history.”

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