GUYANA NEEDS SUSTAINED HELP FROM ABC AND EU

May 14, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

In Guyana, we deal with the Symptoms, not the Cause of the disease. We deal with electoral fraud – this is a symptom of the Racial Politics disease. Some diseases are not curable – but they can be made manageable. (When PNC puts up an Indian, and the PPP an African as Prime Minister, they are both trying to manage the disease).
Help from ABC an EU countries is focused only on addressing the current election impasse/fraud. Would this do away with the effects of the “racial politics disease”? This is more than a rhetorical question – it should be debated by all Guyanese.
The U.S. government often spends billions of dollars in sustained efforts to deal with protracted problems like the Bosnian and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict. If they would spend 0.001% of that money in a sustained effort – they would solve the Guyanese problem permanently.
The problem we have in Guyana started with the 1957 elections. Excessively high rates of ethnic voting for ethnic parties. Both PPP and PNC are nothing but ethnic parties. Perceived ethnic, that makes them ethnic parties. Perception is reality in politics.
We thank the United States for all the help thus far with obtaining Free and Fair Elections – but this will not be enough to bring peace to this country. Guyana needs an enlightened polity, Constitutional Reform – and a need for permanent outside Federal Power to perform the Guardian role of the Constitution.

Mike Persaud

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