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Mar 14, 2011 Letters
Dear Editor,
Is it not amazing to watch Joey Jagan grace your pages with letter after letter attacking Sasenarine Singh, who I felt along with many others that he was in no way attacking Dr. Cheddi Jagan, but merely pointing out that Cheddi was working with a flawed ideology.
Now over time I am sure many will have to ask themselves after 19 years of PPP rule are we better off personally than we were 19 years ago. By this I mean are we able to send out children to school and eventually get them to University or some trade better than what we are doing today. For example how many sugar cane workers today are finding that they have been able to create new opportunities for their children and for themselves under this “prosperity” the PPP has ushered in the past 19 years?
Do we get better health care? Are there more jobs available today with better pay than 19 years ago?
Do we have better paying jobs today?
Do we have democracy today?
Do we have a government free of corruption or is it riddled in corruption?
Do we have better security today than 19 years ago? Do we feel safer than we felt 19 years ago?
Is the debt in better shape than it was 19 years ago?
Is the quality of education better today?
How have air transportation and telecommunications in Guyana improved?
Do we have more freedom today than we had 19 years ago?
I think we all know the answers to these questions, but these are the tough questions we have to ask ourselves, let us not be fooled by roads built and bridges built.
I also urge many of my fellow citizens not to be conned into drifting back into the past where the PPP and PNC love to live because they have nothing of substance to campaign on.
We have to be careful of the grease salesmen. We have to evaluate their performances and look at the hard data. We also have to consider after 19 years where should we be? We have to ask ourselves if we are ok with settling for mediocrity and incompetence.
Cheddi Jagan promised a lot of things, one of which was to abolish the Burnham constitution, He failed miserably in this regard and one would argue that has largely led us to where we are today – an elected dictatorship.
Brandon Samaroo
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