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Feb 20, 2023 Editorial

Kaieteur News –  It is good to see two Guyanese occupying starring roles on the international stage.  Tajenarine Chanderpaul has done so brilliantly with the bat at the highest level, and consistently.  Another young Guyanese, Godakesh Motie, has done so with the ball in two innings, again at the Test level, spinning his way into the record books.  It has been a long and barren season for Guyanese cricketers, who once were a dominant and exciting presence in the West Indies cricket team.

We join our hands to the applause for Chanderpaul and Motie, who have been recognized for their grittiness and skills.  Former West Indies legend, Dr. Desmond Haynes, has lent his voice of wisdom and keen eye to the praises going the way of these young stars who have arrived on the biggest stage.  According to Dr. Haynes, the word from others is that the two are the real deal.

This is good to hear from such a cricketing stalwart, and the hope is that these two, with other young sportsmen and sportswomen in Guyana, and the wider region, will work diligently at putting us on the map and keeping us there.  In addition, other youngsters should take their examples and successes to heart, believe in themselves and their dreams, and never yield a backward step in their quest for a place in what is the highly competitive sporting arena.  In saying this, we are not only talking about cricket, but other fields of play, where Guyanese must believe that they belong with the best, and they have what it takes to excel, regardless of the pressures, or the competition.

Guyana itself, as a country, is at a place that makes it the envy of the world. In Chanderpaul and Motie, we now have stars in the making, who could both go on to great glory for themselves and nation.  We are enriched in the human presence of both of them, and others still unknown and unheralded.  Under our seas, below and above our ground, around and in many places, we possess an abundance of non-human gifts in dazzling array.  When we apply ourselves with the same grit and determination, then there is the greater probability that the best, a little bit at a time, could be extracted from the gifts that are ours.

Just as how two young Guyanese sons adjusted and applied, battled and kept beating on the door of opportunity, the same must be what characterises their peers, their elders, and those who could and must rise up to be champions in other fields of challenge and endeavour in this country.  Throwing up hands in the air, and giving up, are never healthy options, or ones which should ever cross the mind, notwithstanding how bleak the circumstances may seem, how overwhelming the adversary may appear to be.  What Tagenarine Chanderpaul did with bat and Godakesh Motie did with ball, must open our eyes, and alert all of us, to the possibilities, and how endless they can be, at times.

They must have been told for as long as they could remember of how much potential they have, and how they must work tirelessly and sensibly to get the best from their gifts.  Today, they have lived up to their individual gifts, and made all of us proud, with potential now the reality that makes the West Indies cricket world (and elsewhere) sit up and look at most carefully, hopefully.  In a reverse of the norm, these two youthful figures of local sport have now become models of effort and skill for us the ones who are older, the ones with more power, and with more and greater responsibilities on their hands.

Nowadays whenever Guyana is spoken of, the very next word that follows almost automatically is potential.  To be candid, we have disappointed as a country, due to the human hands that have led the way.  In a nutshell, potential has not translated to anything of substance to this point.  We have had the occasional glimpse, but nothing of lasting imprint.  If we do expend the right blend of energies, passions, wisdoms, as a people, as leaders, then it is inevitable we could rise and rule our destiny.

 

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