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Guyanese fathers, oil godfathers, and fathers of the nation

Jun 16, 2024 Editorial

Kaieteur News – It is Father’s Day, and the sons and daughters of Guyana should be paying homage, joyful in giving their love and respect, to those they hold high.  Happy Father’s Day to all Guyanese men.  A blessed Father’s Day to all those Guyanese women, who are caring mothers for their children, and fathers, too.  On this 2024 Father’s Day, where are Guyanese as a people, as children of this soil, as the offspring of those who hold some paternal responsibilities in their hands?

There are fathers in Guyana today, far too many of them, who are in agony, live in shame, because they are unable to provide a comfortable living for their families, especially their children.  In the richest country per capita in the world, this is the reality of many Guyanese fathers on Father’s Day.  They work hard, they love constantly, yet their best is often not good enough.  The shortages are most depressing: basic food items that can’t be had, because they can’t be afforded.  If food is a problem, then the monthly financial obligations and other necessities for a wholesome life need not be mentioned.  For those are also a losing proposition, one where there is always struggling to catch up, rather than falling behind in the race of life, with the local cost of living a punishing reality.  When fathers are this shorthanded, not through deficiency in energy or honesty, then Father’s Day becomes a trying occasion.  Still, Guyanese have proved to be resilient people, and it is that focus and wisdom that carries them forward.  Guyanese should not be stretched this thin, be forced to dig this deep, as a matter of daily survival in a rich oil producing country, one of the richest.

There are those who can make a difference, if only they were to search for the courage to get more from the national patrimonies.  They are the present political fathers of this nation, the oil godfathers of today, who have been gifted what none of their predecessors ever had in their time, in their hands.  Guyanese have wealth like never before, wealth that the world can’t stop talking about.  But which many of this country’s children read about in the newspapers, see and hear from the television, and that is the sum of their experience with the riches that they own.  The kind of life that should not have reached them.  Their place and prestige among their peers, a thing of longing.  The political fathers of today, the oil godfathers are more like absentee fathers.  ExxonMobil has them in jail, and those who are not imprisoned, have taken flight, or are as good as mentally dead.  Said differently, they abandon the wisdom they are known to have, neglect the strengths that are theirs, and partner with those who exploit the children of Guyana.  In some respects, even the cruelest of stepfathers are better than Guyanese political fathers, who are in a dark and dangerous league of their own.  The irony that savages is that the political fathers who should be fighting for what benefits the children of Guyana, those here and those to come, are fighting against their own, and selling them into generational slavery.

The mothers of Guyana grope for a way out their dark times.  It is a season of constant struggle when they and the fathers of their children are so strapped that making it through the day is a long, hard, uphill battle.  On this Father’s Day, a day that is about loving and cherishing those who are such an integral part of family life, we should not be talking about these realities, bringing these things to the forefront.  But if we don’t, then who would?  When we look at the political fathers of this nation, those who are responsible for protecting the interests of all the children of Guyana, we are left to marvel at the pitiful cowards they have become.  They run and hide under the bed, rather than stand and get the best for the children, fight the hard fight for a better Guyana.  Let every day be Father’s Day and Mother’s Day because Guyana has been given the wealth to make it so.

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