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Down to hours
A long and angry journey just got delicate. How could he (Lowenfield)? How would she (Chair) be? With under just hours to a declaration, the eyes of the world remain on the GECOM Chair. In her hands and words, from her mind, a declaration must come, whatever it is.
In the last 18 months, this country stopped living. Now the declaration awaited should galvanize us, one way or another.
We have had Mr. Lowenfield’s scroll on Saturday, on Tuesday, it is the turn of Chairwoman, Ms. Claudette Singh. May whatever she declares help us emerge from the mental wreckage, the spiritual carnage of Elections 2020. We at this publication challenge ourselves to be hopeful. We hope that our fellow citizens, in the fraternity and sorority that is Guyana, will join with us in looking ahead.
Let us get something straight: no matter how the retired judge declares, there will be fevered, emotional rearing up in denunciation of and in support. For however the Chair declares, she will be condemned or commended. We have had enough of the second-guessing that tears apart; no more.
There is too much restarting and reinvigorating that lies immediately ahead. Let the political resolve and that of the nation’s be no more despoiling our gifts, tarnishing our promise, diluting our future. Yes, there is acknowledgement that this stands in solitary loneliness before the tides that tower.
But, as the Leader of the Opposition said last week: no more attacking of the chairwoman of GECOM. To that, we add the same for whatever she declares.She has shown herself to be a stickler in listening to the whispers in her head. In her hands our fate rests, and the future of so many things. This country needs to regroup, since it has no standing, no confidence, little strength, and less trust in anything from anybody. Neither the CEO nor the Chair of GECOM is exempt. Into this cauldron of crisis, Chair Claudette comes tomorrow, June 16. That could be our new Independence Date, the day that compelled moving towards the freedom that deserted us.Together we succeed and prosper or together we perish in our follies. In our thinking, togetherness means more than sweet talk, it means all-inclusive, it means now, it means let us get moving from where we are to a higher ground.
There must be leadership willingness to accept and respect whatever declaration follows tomorrow, if only for the greater good of the greatest many.
This will be most challenging, but it aligns wholesomely with promises to accept whatever declaration is made (the president) and calls to respect the position of the Chair (Opposition Leader). Both must do the manly: honour their word, their call.Leadership wisdom must occur swiftly and send the right message to the many unhappy and unruly yearning for partisan respite. All do well to remember Winston Churchill, who articulated: “Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all those others that have been tried from time to time.”
We can argue pointlessly about basis (CEO), census (demographics), and statistical (electoral), and all the tiring rest, but this is what we have now, what we subscribed to, and what we committed to be faithful to in its provisions and requirements. Now the time of test for its truths is here, through whatever structure is configured and finalized, with heavy implications for the potential of country and peoples. As always, when we speak of the peoples, we speak of all, without qualification. For all are citizens, all must be included.Undoubtedly, the days beyond any declaration will be severely demanding. All the fervent promises, the stirring elements in political manifestoes must now be fused and delivered in a changed environment.
A few months ago, they were offered as a thousand points of light, now they must shine.
This is the time for proving the sincerity of political promises made by political leaders, as the days in front predict the most trying ever.The best of all leaders is required, the same of all citizens. Together, we can go somewhere by taking charge of our destiny from today for all the tomorrows that wait. May we, this a land of which we can be proud. To get to these constructive ends, there is something that must be practised by all, as uttered by Harlan Fiske Stone, US Supreme Court Justice: “the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint.”
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