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Guyana is in desperate need of intelligent and Guyana first politicians

Mar 07, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – The fact that most Guyanese live pay cheque to pay cheque and that our country remains underdeveloped despite our vast natural resources is a direct consequence of visionless, corrupt and self-interested political leaders. It is not only the PPP or the PNC, it is both of these parties that have used Guyanese people (especially, Africans, Amerindians and Indians), sowing seeds of distrust, racism and other wedges to mobilise votes and support, sometimes through violence and coercive means.
I would like your readers to ask themselves one question. With all the gold, bauxite, diamonds, rice, sugar, seafood, oil and green gold, that is our standing rainforests which we are being paid to conserve and use sustainability, why do the majority of Guyanese live in poverty or pay cheque to pay cheque? There is no other country in the English-speaking Caribbean with the vast quantity of diverse natural resources that Guyana possesses, yet our people must struggle to make ends meet. Does this make sense?
The nation of Qatar discovered its Dukhan oil field in 1940 and in 1960 discovered its first offshore oil field. Since then, it has become one of the most prosperous nations on the face of this earth. The political leaders of Qatar would never allow foreign companies and agents to rob their people of the immense benefits of their nation’s wealth. By the way, the FIFA World Cup will be hosted in Qatar in 2022. This is the first time the world’s largest sporting event will be hosted in the Middle East.
With the current crop of uninspiring and corrupt politicians, Guyana will never be a Qatar, perhaps not even a Trinidad and Tobago or Barbados. I am willing to risk my house, retirement savings and commercial assets on this. In fifty years, we will be right where we are right now. Actually, we will be a more indebted nation because of the heavy and more expensive borrowing from the Inter-American Development Bank and China especially. Imagine, we are incurring potentially crippling debt because we are borrowing against future oil and gas earnings. Imagine that! This is what the politicians we risked our lives for have done to us.
Most of the revenues from our oil resources are enjoyed by foreign companies, foreigner workers/consultants, some local politicians and very wealthy persons with close connections to these politicians. So it was for gold, bauxite, diamonds and so it will be for oil and gas.
Finally, I ask readers to ask themselves another question. With the development of the Amalia Hydro Power facility, why has the Government of the day procured a Chinese company to construct the facility and sell to us, that is, the Guyana Power and Light, electricity produced from the facility? Was this the only option available to the current political leaders? Does this make sense? Can we not create a locally owned and managed company to operate the facility, even if the Chinese construct it and we employ several of them?
Oh, lest I forget, the Chinese are also extracting and exporting manganese from Region One. The company is registered and operating under the name of the Guyana Manganese Incorporated.
The only thing this current crop of politicians have not sold out to foreigners is our flag, and this is even debatable.

Sadly submitted,
Chris Singh

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