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Confidence and trust
Editorial…
Kaieteur News- The political parties here have been gearing up for general and regional elections slated for this year. Inevitably, citizens would have to decide which party and its leaders they can trust with their lives and their children’s future.
Trust is motherhood and marriage of a special kind, a brotherhood and sorority that speaks for itself. But when there is a scarcity of trust, then for all that there may be, that can be had, it is as if there is nothing. When there is that nightmare of nightmares, where there is a total absence of trust, then for all the oil and money and promise of so much more, there is nothing. We trust each other to be there for us, look out for us, when we place certain heavy responsibilities in the hands of others. Sometimes it could be over hard-earned money, of other valuable property, of our family, and for the day-to-day present as well as the unknown future.
We do this with security guards in whom we entrust our safety and the integrity of our property. We do this when great trust is placed in the hands of those colleagues and comrades who help us get things done, both little and big, sometimes personal, oftentimes national in scope. When they turn around and betray that trust, a battering of the spirit comes. There is a draining of resolve, or a reflexive temptation to throw up hands and ask, ‘How could this happen?’. That is, if this one could so quietly and secretly study and scheme so cunningly, then why even bother to continue to invest in trusting others when the prospect of favourable returns for the trust given is shattered so callously.
We urge our fellow citizens to look around and review how our environment is today. We ask them to recall from long ago and recent memory, from the long list of examples, how precious trust has been trampled upon in this society, and at every level. Think of those who raised their hands and pleaded for the gift of our trust, and promised to do what is right for us, the Guyanese people. Politicians in Guyana, particularly the senior, more vocal, and recognisable ones, make pretty speeches of how much good they have in mind for the Guyanese people, as they beg for our support, for their votes. But deep down in their hearts, is where the real truths of their commitments given so easily lie.
To support is to vote for, and to vote for is to trust. Every ballot cast with that simplest of letters from the alphabet, an X in the right place, is a deed of trust. Do right, do good, do what is truthful, do what is wise and just and clean. We ask our fellow Guyanese a simple question: what is it that citizens have gotten in return for the last six decades for their trust? Outside of leaders’ inner circle of friends, family, and other favoured followers, what have leaders delivered in return for the priceless trust they received?
Politicians were liars and frauds and deceivers long before oil, and now that beauty springing from below the sea is here, men in the PPP/C Government and the APNU+AFC Opposition have lost their minds. They hide, they lie, they make up stories, and they mock Guyanese as they kick aside the trust given to them. Then they pour salt in the wounds of despairing citizens with more falsehoods, more trickeries, and more thieveries. So, as we go forth this election season, let’s be mindful of whom we trust and to whom we give our support, because some of the biggest betrayers and biggest robbers in Guyana are higher up. They are in government offices and political headquarters.
(Confidence and trust)
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