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Mar 09, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
Every day I read the newspapers my heart aches for this country and the level of abuse we have suffered as a nation. I think to myself some of us may suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome and that is why you feel compassion and love for your former captors (the Opposition), who brainwashed us while they abused us mentally and emotionally for 23 years.
I get angry when I read the comments and “solutions” from the opposition members and I often wonder, why didn’t you do what you are demanding in your 23 years. I refuse to believe that so many of us are so naive that we actually agree with these people who literally ran our nation in to the ground and now have grand ideas on how to move forward. How were we moving forward with the Marriott? How were we moving forward with Amalia Falls? How were we moving forward with Bai Shan Lin? I just cannot fathom us sympathising with our opposition leaders who had 23 long years to implement strategies for our prison systems, sugar industry, rice industry, gold industry, tourism, export industry and every other economic factor that drives sustainability and growth for our country.
What do we have to show after 23 years under the PPP? I mean really, what? I am not saying no good came from them, I am certain if I take a year or so I can jot down a few points, but where is our leap into the 21st century? We are now, in 2016, on that journey. We are still playing catch up with Trinidad and Jamaica, not to mention some of the even smaller islands. We were kept in the dark ages so we could not demand more, so we could not dream of more, so we could not experience more. I can only imagine where we would have been had the PPP not been so selfish, corrupt and greedy.
Those prisoners who lost their lives are no pawn Mr. Rohee, don’t you dare use their deaths to even act as if you give a damn about those prisoners. Have you ever visited them, sat with them, heard their stories or proposed an establishment for rehabilitation and mentoring for small time criminals? Have you offered any of them to come work on your lawns or wash your car to earn an honest living and to reintegrate any of them back into society? Then don’t you dare speak their names or write a comment like you care. Don’t you dare offer up reactive advice when you and your administration had 23 years to be proactive and do right by our less fortunate, our forgotten members of society. These are the same people whose homes flooded when the rain drizzled because the canals and drains were clogged for 23 years.
These are the same people who never had a playing field as children because it was over grown for 23 years. These are the same people who have been abused by the systems your administration never changed, so don’t you dare call their names. Shame on you Mr. Rohee, shame on all of you who could have prevented this years ago when there were multiple days of unrest in the Camp Street prison but did nothing. Now you demand strategies, who do you think you are? We lost human beings who were sons, fathers, brothers, uncles; all of them men, who in spite their choices were loved by someone but not cared for by our Government. This travesty is a testament, along with so many other things, that highlights your short comings in the past 23 years. Now let us see what will be done by our existing Government. Please do not sweep this under the rug or give it a fleeting glance. Do right by these men and their families. Do right by those who are imprisoned. Do right by our brethren. Do right by OUR Guyana.
Concerned Citizen
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