Guyana cannot afford the PPP in office anymore

Jun 03, 2025 Letters

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Dear Editor

One of the underlying features of our national politics is that PPP supporters have been corralled around the PPP by the economic disenfranchisement and discrimination instituted by the PNC.

They have however endured much plundering, poverty and financial insufficiency at the hands of the PPP over the years, with rice farmers being allowed to be ripped off by millers, sugar workers punishing under bad decisions involving the waste of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers money injected by the PPP into GUYSUCO over the decades, money that could well have been used to pay off sugar workers and finance the much-needed economic restructuring of communities dependent on the sugar industry.

Their children also were not spared class discrimination of the PPP’s education policy which ensured that children of the rich were given the best schools, best teachers, and always had textbooks every school year. Children of poorer backgrounds were just never catered for when it came to distribution of textbooks, it seemed.  There was also the death of Satyadeo Sawh, a Minister within the PPP government which the PPP never addressed.

The case of the Mohameds stands as an exceptional example of PPP trying to consume and destroy ‘its own’ when its own no longer supports it and wants to take a stand for better government. The PPP’s contention is it will not tolerate Indian Guyanese who can potentially break its support and cause it to get booted at elections. It is very possible to have another party than the PPP in government which can treat them fairly and equitably.

The Mohameds were once the life blood of the PPP as a major supporter. The son, who has entered our political arena, is now being flogged by the PPP as a criminal. My contention has always been that regardless of how bad you are, you’re always better than the PPP. Because the PPP represents the height of criminality in our country, in our government. From having Guyana used as a transshipment port for narcotics (the ship that was stopped in Europe which had Georgetown as its port of departure, but for which international investigators could not find records at the GRA) to allowing the cover-up of the unexplained death of the child at the hotel on the East Bank Essequibo, the PPP has its hands tarnished going back to its earlier terms in government. This is not to mention its record on corruption.

The PPP has probably done worse than all of our criminals taken together. Pedophilia, spousal abuse, sponsor of unmentionable criminal acts, corruption on a grand scale involving millions of United States dollars (Su Ching Kong and the Jagabat), financial crimes involving the expenditure of taxpayers’ money specifically disapproved by our parliament (prior to the 2015 elections).  Then there is its government sponsored poverty that impacts the economically marginalized and the working poor across both the public and private sectors. It’s all there in our newspapers, the patient scribes of their deeds through the decades.

To crown it all off, the PPP is now sponsoring the give-away of billions to our oil companies annually.  Between one hundred and fifty thousand and three hundred and fifty thousand of our people live in poverty and financial insufficiency because of the PPP’s policy of enriching its itself and business friends while our handpicked president who seems to have had a brain operation is there on every corner of our rural communities for photo ops. He is the good cop in our story, the one with 19 fraud charges, because we know who the bad cop is. His chicken farm is clearly an incidence of vested interests, why nothing strategic and significant was never done to lower food prices by expanding supply.

I have said before that Guyana’s future is in the hands of supporters of the PPP. When giants meet, they must find a common enemy, or they will drift apart.  I task our lions, our giants, to sheathe their egos and bind their strength together to produce a political party to defeat the PPP this year. Guyana cannot afford the PPP in office anymore.  I have cobbled together the source of the votes supporting a viable third party. Here’s where votes will come from:

1. Approximately 131,250 of the eligible voters who live in poverty will support and vote for us.
2. The tens of thousands of elderly and retirees who will vote for us.
3. The tens of thousands of public servants who want higher salaries will vote for us.
4. Private sector workers can who expect higher incomes as their employers benefit from our reductions in corporate income taxes will vote for us.
5. The tens of thousands of unemployed Guyanese who have been failed by Jagdeo and the Coalition will vote for us.
6. Our entire business community will support us as they will benefit from billions of dollars in tax relief and economic growth under our policies.
7. All voters who want constitutional reform will vote for us.

This election is ours to win.

Yours faithfully,

Craig Sylvester

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