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I am suggesting that we sell Guyana to a billionaire

Apr 29, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

I shall begin by telling you that I’m a patriotic Guyanese living in Guyana. I have an intense love for Guyana and the people of this country and I want what is best for the poor and powerful people in this country.
Do you know why 50 percent of Guyanese have migrated and continue to migrate in alarming numbers even though the country has found oil, it’s because they have lost hope. Some people tell me that I have to continue to have hope for a better Guyana – at what point do I have to stop hoping? There’s a thin line between having hope and being naive is there not?
For example, the woman whose husband has been physically abusing her for decades, should she continue to stay with him and to hope for him to change and the abuse to stop? After years of being abused and hoping for change and he doesn’t, to continue to hope for a change is foolish and naive. For she to continue to stay with him is blind optimism. She can’t continue to hope as she continues to be abused. She can’t continue to hope in the face of uncertainty.
After years of political and economic darkness, there are many people who want Guyanese to believe a brighter day will come and that Guyana will become a little Dubai. If you had a car and it was giving you a tremendous amount of troubles wouldn’t you sell it? You put in a new battery, starter, alternator, radiator, carburetor and even a new engine and still have problems with the car. After a while, wouldn’t you say enough is enough and sell the car?
I’m putting it to you that Guyana is like that car. After five decades and nine executive presidents and millions of dollars invested in the country, Guyana is still the second poorest country in this hemisphere. Therefore, I am suggesting that just as you would sell the car that is giving you problems, for Guyana to prosper, I’m recommending that we sell Guyana to a billionaire for $750 billion U.S. and give each citizen (Guyana population 750, 000) of Guyana one million U.S. dollar each.
This way the poor pensioners would no longer have to live on monthly crumbs of $25,000. Poor children wouldn’t have to go to school on empty stomachs. Diabetics would have money to buy insulin. Poor people would be able to pay for the best healthcare. I know my recommendation to sell Guyana is a radical one, but the citizenry can’t continue to hope for a change to the Guyana’s Constitution or for a united Guyana or for a third political party to be elected, or for better leaders. It is not going to happen; it hasn’t happened in five decades.
The politicians will never change the Constitution, Guyanese will never unite, a third political party will not be different from the two major political parties because they all come from the same mango tree and we will not get better political leaders. Let us stop hoping for a change in Guyana because we have been hoping for 50 long years and nothing changed. It’s time to do something radically different and sell the country.

Yours truly
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