President Ali’s Road Crisis Remarks Prove the PPP’s Planning Failure

Oct 16, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

President Irfaan Ali’s October 12 meeting on the East Bank traffic chaos laid bare what many Guyanese have long observed: the PPP Government has no system for proper project management or accountability. The President admitted himself, “enough effort is not placed in the contract management and the workflow plan,” and that the result is “tremendous hardship on the people.”

Those words are striking. If, after five years in office, the Head of State must summon contractors, consultants, the police, the Coast Guard and the Public Works Ministry to dictate work schedules, coordinate drones, and threaten legal sanctions, what does that say about ministerial competence? These are not presidential duties, they are symptoms of institutional collapse.

Rather than being an act of strength, the President’s tirade confirmed that governance under the PPP has become a one-man show. When every problem, whether a traffic jam or a contract delay, awaits presidential intervention, the entire Cabinet and bureaucracy are reduced to spectators. The President himself conceded that he had visited the site at one and two-thirty in the morning, personally checking who was working. That is not leadership; it is micromanagement born of systemic failure.

If the government had empowered local engineers, enforced contractual standards, and maintained parliamentary oversight, such crises would never escalate to this point. The PPP’s obsession with central control has stifled initiative and accountability across agencies. What Guyana needs are functioning institutions that prevent crises, not presidential marathons to chase after them.

Until the government restores professional management and transparent supervision, the traffic jams of the East Bank will remain a metaphor for how the country is being run: congested, reactive, and directionless.

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