Guyanese have no one watching out for them

Jun 29, 2021 Editorial

Kaieteur News – This society has always existed in a politically dark and bad place. In view of the way things are today, life and its prospects just got immeasurably worse for most citizens. It is because this country has no opposition, none of the kind that gives the Guyanese people some hope, something to hold on to, no matter how weakly. It is because there is nobody, no group, no presence in the form of a few spirited patriots to bring confidence and the inspiration that goes along with it.
As much as we at this paper would prefer to be kind and considerate with what we have for a political opposition, we cannot. The times and environment and circumstances in which Guyanese struggle to live, to dare to hope, do not hold that which comforts. When a vibrant and determined political opposition group and leader are most needed, there is neither. Not even a whisker that offers something to lean on, something to reach for and grasp, while hoping against hope that somebody has the backs of citizens, somebody is watching out for them.
Over 200,000 eligible adults voted for the coalition opposition, and it is as if they gambled, not on a horse that lost, but on one that turned around and kicked them in the teeth, and not contented with that, goes further to chew on their minds and bite off their tongues. As we look at this more and more closely, all the appearances, if not all of the body of evidence, speak to an opposition that has swallowed its own tongue, one that has no temperature, not so much as even a pulse of the faintest, encouraging flicker. Guyana’s political opposition today is in a coma and its leadership could not have selected a possibly worse time to jump overboard, and leave the rest of the population to fend for itself as best as its members could, but with one stark reality that has to be faced and faced squarely. The population has been abandoned by the opposition and left with not a paddle to get it to some place, other than deeper into its largely impoverished state.
There is oil, and there is the PPP government, through its very savvy leadership team of one, that makes a mockery of the aspirations of Guyanese. The coalition opposition is largely unconcerned; serene and steadfast in silence it has been, despite one oil mystery and one after the other perversity by the same PPP leadership with this oil wealth of ours. For all intents and purposes, the postures of the opposition, as voiced by its own trembling leaf of a leader, has combined with the PPP government to pile on the mockery on dispirited and gutted citizens. It does not matter in the least that those mocked and humiliated includes the over 200,000 people who voted for it.
While we speak for the benefit of all Guyanese, there can be no mistaking the predicament and poverty of circumstances of those 200,000 plus persons, who invested their time, their hopes, their energies, and their heart and soul, and who are now forced to come to the reluctant recognition and admission that they have been betrayed. Billions of barrels of highly likely prospering oil are handled under the table and under the cover of side deals with cronies and front men by the PPP leadership, and the opposition in Guyana could not be more disinterested and disengaged. Billions upon billions are being spent on a slew of expensive projects, and the staggering arithmetic leaves the opposition as unmoving as stone. It is well known that the world over, when that kind of money is being spent by government, then all kinds of crooked dealings follow in the wake. As Guyanese should be well aware, this has been the sick and corrupt record of Third World leaders across the globe. Guyanese leaders are no exception, when helping themselves to taxpayers’ wealth is concerned. In fact, they are even better at the financial self-help, because here they are allowed to get away with such banditry, and with not so much as a peep from the group empowered to watch over the interests of a lost society.
As we think of this, the conclusion is obvious: in today’s Guyana, there is a coalition political opposition that is blindfolded and handcuffed. Its leadership has further handicapped itself, in whatever it committed to quietly and secretly, by attaching a ball and chain to its feet. Thus, Guyana’s opposition has entangled itself, and stumbles and bumbles along.

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