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Why has the PPP deliberately neglected our senior artists?

Feb 04, 2026 Letters

Dear Editor,

When the PPP returned to government in August 2020-2025, there was no opposition to their rule for five years. Billions drained from the NRF still remain unaccounted for…let’s be honest the PPP only gave out the GYD$100,000 to Guyanese 18 years and over, including the diaspora for its electoral machinations.

The opposition PNC and their coalition of parties had lost all credibility after its attempted electoral fraud of the 2020 elections, and for five years they were dragged before the court. During which time the PPP billion-dollar budgets grew into trillions of dollars.

The ministry of culture was allocated every year billions which it is said went into the construction of a new gallery and museum to accommodate the art works purchased since the early eighties by Chairman of the Department of Culture Ms. Lynette Dolphin and Director of Art Dr. Dennis Williams. Despite the enormous sums of money allocated to this ministry there were no grants nor purchases of Art work from any senior Guyanese artist who had represented Guyana at home and the diaspora with distinction, winning national and international awards. It is not only unfair and unjust, it is inhumane. It requires an answer that the opposition and no member of civil society has ever asked, WHY? Why has the PPP deliberately neglected our senior artists?

Once again in its 2026, $1.558 trillion dollars budget, billions are allocated to the Ministry of culture – once again a new gallery and museum! In addition, the government has expressed its intentions to support young artists. How so? The PPP has shown that it has absolutely no respect for senior Guyanese artists nor for the contribution we have made in the making of the treasury of Guyanese Art that is the National Collection…

Yours faithfully,

Desmond Alli (Senior Guyanese Artist)

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