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Dec 11, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
Referring to “Every Guyanese needs to make a conscious decision to stay and invest in Guyana today.” KN December 4.” I want to welcome to Guyana the new Deputy Chief of Mission, at the US Embassy in Guyana, Mr. Terry Steers-Gonzalez. I want to thank him for his service to Guyana and America. Mr. Steers-Gonzalez said, “Every Guyanese needs to make a conscious decision to stay and invest in Guyana today.” I have some questions for Mr. Steers-Gonzalez: Do you know how difficult it is for some people living in Guyana? Are you asking citizens whose lives have been ruined, homes and families shattered and hearts broken to stay and sacrifice for a government who doesn’t love them?
Do you know how it feels to live in a society where your opinions do not matter? Do you know how it feels to live in a land where violence is ubiquitous? Do you know how it feels to live in a society where you always have to watch your back? Do you know how it feels to always be fearful and worried about being robbed or something bad happening to you? Do you know what it like always feeling hopeless or trapped? Do you know how it feels to be marginalized and victimized because of your ethnicity, religion or political beliefs?
Do you know how it feels to live your whole life under a tyrant, dictator, bully or political leaders who just want to get rich? Do you know how it feels to not be able to sleep in peace at night out of fear of thieves breaking into your home, and the police unable protect you, and you can’t even protect yourself and family members because the government wouldn’t give you a firearm licence? Do you know how it feels to live in country where you not free to speak your mind without being victimized? Do you know if you are not connected politically you can’t make it far in this country?
Do you think I am the only one who thinks that we are living in a cesspool? I’m not. For example, in his book, A National Cesspool of Greed, Duplicity and Corruption: A Remigrant’s Story, GHK Lall wrote: “What does all of this say about this society (Guyana) and its inhabitants? It is that men will go an extra mile- many extra miles- to gouge and to rob. It is that religion and race have no bearing; the same toxic greed courses through fiber and vein and mentality. The dignity of church, and the sacrosanct nature of God, are both desecrated in the uncaring headlong stampede to exploit, to grab, to accumulate at all costs. Greed – chronic and acute – is akin to a national addiction; perpetrators are locked in frenzies of perversities; they cannot help themselves, they don’t want to, as the craving is so rewarding, so sweet.”
Do you know that many citizens feel like they are living in a cesspool? Do you know how it feels to live among a citizenry that feel a sense of entitlement, lack principle, lawless and downright sleazy? Do you know how it feels to live among the most greedy and corrupt people in the Caribbean? Do you know how it feels to live in a country where most of the citizenry are opportunistic, duplicitous and barbaric?
Do you know how it feels to live in a country where there are no standards, little in the way of restraint or caution? Do you know how it feels to live in a country where the cesspool of corruption is growing increasingly? Do you know that many Guyanese have been longing for a new day, new life and better country for five decades? Do you know that this is one of the reasons why more than half of the country is living in the diaspora? Mr. Steers-Gonzalez, most Guyanese know what it feels like living in the cesspool of a country. It feels painful, depressing, daunting and hopeless. Are you Sir able to comprehend and sympathize with how the citizenry is feeling? Put differently, can you feel their pain?
So Mr. Steers-Gonzalez please do not encourage Guyanese to stay and live in a daunting and dangerous society. Mr. Steers-Gonzalez please don’t ask citizens whose lives have been decimated, homes and families destroyed and hearts crushed, to stay and invest in a country that doesn’t care about them. If you were one of the poor and powerless Guyanese, would you encourage any citizen to stay and invest in Guyana? Would you stay and invest?
Anthony Pantlitz
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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