Dear Editor,
In this lovely land, landscaped with rivers, relatives and religions, its royal richness is reserved within the resourceful realms of her pristine plains and proud people. Guyana’s policies and principles are protected by a Parliament, rules, regulations, laws and orders are entrenched through its constitution, freedom of speech is guarantee but guarded by governance, freedom of movement is not manipulated but is manifested by mobility and her sovereignty is sustained and secured by her fortified forces and foreign friends.
Led by youth, vigour and vitality from a vibrant PPP/C Government, this young nation is at a crucial juncture of its historic economic recovery, progressive development, prosperous transformation, political and social integration. Its global acknowledgement, acceptance, recognition and endorsement as a leading nation transgressing from poverty to prosperity, has become the apple of the eye in the Southern Hemisphere. On this unprecedented journey, she is envied by a few greedy ones but also found sound support especially from her proud Caribbean sister islands and also from the rest of the international community.
As this country observes her 59th year of Independence, Guyana’s jurisdiction over Essequibo is once again challenged by her ambitious Western neighbour, The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuela is led by an authoritarian dictator, Nicholas Maduro, who is not accepted as the legitimate president from the rest of the world except her allies, Russia, China, Iran, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
This external threat has seen Guyana garnering immense reinforcement from her friends to avouched her defense. On the eve of her celebration, Guyana is worried about a proposed election for governorship of the Cinderella County, Essequibo, from Maduro. A border dispute raised by Venezuela is currently awaiting a decision from the International Court of Justice in Hague. Guyana has maintained respect for the Court’s patience as she awaits to abide by the decision.
Meanwhile, the ICJ has issued an order refraining Venezuela to perpetrate, penetrate or provoke any action which is deemed contradictory to the Provisional measures as indicated by its December 1, 2023 Order. One of the clauses include, “Pending a final decision in the case, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela shall refrain from conducting elections, or preparing to conduct elections, in the territory of dispute, which the Co-operative Republic of Guyana currently administers and over which it exercises control.”
Of great concern to Guyana, the Government, the citizens, more so, sympathizers to the PNC Party, is the recent walk out by that Party and its members, led by an irascible person, who continues to dig a hole for himself and take down his associates. Daily he fades into the twilight of irrelevance as he acts irresponsibly much to the ire of those who helped to give him prominence.
At a time when the ship needs all hands-on deck, the Opposition chose to abandon ship and leave their mates to sink or face the heat by themselves. How can Guyanese put their trust and fate in the PNC when they refuse to stand in solidarity to pass important legislations in defense of the nation? Little boys and girls cannot do the job that’s meant for big men and women. The PNC has once again shamed the nation, embarrassed their supporters and let down the young people. Guyanese will remember them when election time comes around.
After fifty-nine years of independence, the PNC still remains handcuffed in an abyss of blindness, blindsided by a visionless prospectus and shackled in the domain of tyranny. As they continue to sideline national issues and attempt to stray the innocent with propaganda, the PPP/C Government persists with its upward trend to take this country from rags to riches. Currently embroiled in the Younge fiasco, the PNC is struggling to gain poor political mileage in impoverishing the family with false hopes, lies and absurdity.
Under the mantle of the PNC, that Party for thirty-three years has consistently led this country and its people down the “Road to Perdition.” A party that is notorious for stealing and rigging referendums and elections, the PNC is bold, brazen and bare-faced to stop at nothing in order to grab control through the back door to gain power! It’s an established fact and now the international community has relinquished any affluence with their demonic behaviour, severed any affiliation with their systemic corruption and refused to be blindfolded with their lies, dishonesty and indignity.
From the conceptualization of the PNC Party, a devious Burnham has sired Satanic influence to lay the foundation of doom and gloom, characterizing the epitome of violence, vengeance and vulgarism as arteries of poisonous offsprings. Although the brave Hoyte ventured into some courageous endeavourments, he was short lived by the first free and fair election in 1992, which saw the PNC catapulted into twenty-eight years of being frustratingly side-lined! But they did not stay quiet. Rather, in the interim, they sowed the seed of cut-throats, pirates and buccaneers to reap the benefit of a victory by a challenged one-seat majority at the 2015 election.
A puerile Granger was no match as a ranger to harness an existential proclivity to win the mother of all elections in 2020. Thanks to the astute presence of an array of observers at all levels, a vigilante ABCE persisted to be proactive and coherently concerned for democracy. The international community was conscious of an attempted rigging mechanism by the PNC to indulge in defrauding the result of the election and forge a win for themselves.
It has been fifty-nine years of freedom from British Imperialism as an independent country, including fifty-five years as a Republic state since Guyana has relinquished the British Monarchy as the head of this nation. Through the translucent lens of a telescope for a fulfilled future and under the transparent lens of a microscope for current conditions, the PPP/C Government remains steadfast in accountability, responsibility and productivity. Their motto, mantra and manifesto is to serve all carefully, consciously and competently.
Happy 59th Independence Anniversary fellow Guyanese.
Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall.
