Best wishes to Councillor Travis Ellis

Jun 20, 2023 Editorial

Kaieteur News – We at this publication are proud to extend congratulations to KN pressman, Travis Ellis, for his success at the recent Local Government Elections. Our colleague is now the proud holder of a seat on the Georgetown City Council, and we expect that he will use his voice and ideas to make a difference for citizens.

Having been close to and seen firsthand the energy and passion that his colleagues put in at KN, the hope is that he will replicate some of that in his new political challenges. It is a challenging set of duties in a difficult and tricky environment that stands before Councillor Ellis. He must navigate the politics wisely, represent his constituency to the best of his ability, with emphasis on honesty and truth, and getting to what serves both his supporters, and that of the larger capital city. We believe that he would be up to the challenges.

Our roads are being broken up daily by heavy-duty vehicles transporting full loads of oil-related materials, and all that Guyanese hear about is paving the way for progress into the 22^nd century, and the unending bickering between the PPP/C Government and the main PNC Opposition. When our vehicles are subjected to daily battering, the bill has to be paid now, and not years from now. When all that citizens see is either the deeper holes being cheaply and improperly filled, or left unaddressed for a long time, they then wish for answers to their appeals, and solutions to what bothers and costs them. This is among the urgent matters that Councillor Ellis faces, and when drainage, the state of marketplaces, chronic flood woes, and garbage collection are added to the list of troubles, then he has his hands full.

The candidacy and now success of pressman Travis Ellis also speak to something else about KN, and what Guyana could benefit from when put into practice. Anybody that can do a job well has a place at KN. The publisher of this paper is proud of the fact that Guyanese of every political persuasion, any religious affiliation, any ethnic composition, and with varying levels of education can find an open door at KN when there is the need for another worker. We think that in a country as sharply and bitterly divided as Guyana, this says more than a few things. The first is that the only thing that matters is that the job has to be done well, delivered consistently, and always cleanly. Jobs and rewards have long been a bone of contention in Guyana, with endless accusations of who marginalises, who squeezes, and who impoverishes the other. Given these contexts, the government, the opposition, and the private sector can all learn from us, colleagues are free to have their political relationships, and none is turned away because of their affiliation with this or that party. We hold out Councillor Travis Ellis as evidence of our longstanding position. Race and politics are killing us, our prospects, in this country, and there has to be an end to both deformities.

As is well known, there are always the horrible aspects of race and politics being used as weapons that taint conversations, perspectives, and conclusions. It is why in this era of massive wealth, more than we can imagine, that when we are so divided, far apart, and easily manipulated that foreigners from all over the world come here and use those same weaknesses against us. They can then plunder our riches, while we revel in dragging down one another, and destroying our present and our future.

The circumstances of this country urgently call for the kind of political leaders that have the welfare of every Guyanese in mind. It will take a lot of unselfishness, a great unraveling of the narrow partisanship, that has tormented rich and poor, the closely involved and those standing anxiously on the sidelines. We must learn to mend our wounds, for if we do not do so, then we inflict still greater wounds on the national body. We can’t afford such, can’t bear more. While Guyanese are haemorrhaging, their wealth is draining away. We learn to grow together, or we go down together.

Councillor, Editorial, KN pressman, replicate, Travis Ellis

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