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Apr 26, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
Many Guyanese have had their minds twisted and corrupted by the hate inspired by the PPP for Burnham and the PNC. The PPP, by peddling fear and hatred, has become a reproach to Guyana, intent on setting us against each other for their political ends.
I lived in Burnham’s time, aged sixteen at the time of his death. I went with my father to cut cane one of the plantations, lined up at GNTC on Regent street for milk and whatever else, drank sugar water, ate cornmeal and plantain flour porridge without milk, ate rice flour bread, rice balls, endured all the blackouts, waited two weeks at the Georgetown Hospital to have my dislocated elbow attended to, and suffered just about everything everyone during that time went through.
But look at me. I don’t hate Burnham or the PNC. As a matter of fact, it was Burnham’s own call for us to ‘Organize for Production and Defense,’ among his annual speeches and other addresses to the nation, which focused my mind on our economic problems as a young adult.
I came to understand that Burnham was caught in the global politics of the time. Socialism at the time was a bad experiment, a tragic mistake, and a very bad episode in the lives of Guyanese at the time. This is in addition to the contributions of our local political climate, as recently highlighted in other sections of the media. But there is nothing that can be done about any of this.
We have to move on.
Guyana has to move on.
At stake right now is our own future, with the PPP intent on continuing its government of corruption, coercion of the judicial system to protect its perverse, corrupt and abusive government officials and ministers.
We decide on May 11 whether to condemn ourselves to living under the PPP’s elitist government of abuses and its program of underdevelopment as it continues to drag its feet on job creation and the generation of higher paying jobs. This along with the withholding of local government elections and implementation of poor infrastructural projects that facilitate the PPP’s systematic feeding of itself, its friends and families. Here we need only look at the numerous family members the PPP has absorbed into its ranks for reinforcing its elitist government of corruption and abuse come May 11.
Or we can opt for the APNU+AFC Coalition which comprises individuals dedicated to fighting the PPP’s abuses and injustices, individuals committed to delivering on our desire for a better life and prosperity and a government committed to eliminating corruption within the corridors of government.
On May 11, let us all get on board and play our part in taking this country forward, TOGETHER.
Let us as one people tell the PPP to ‘STAND DOWN’!
Our Future Belongs to Us. Let Us Claim It Now!
Craig Sylvester
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