Dear Editor,
Known for his no-nonsense direct approach, his long enduring working shifts and to summon meetings in the wee hours of the morning, President Dr. Irfaan Ali is not beating around the bush. He typically grabs the bull by its horn and wastes no time in getting to the core of a problem. His untiring efforts have resulted in Guyana’s transformative prosperity from poverty.
Under his esteemed dynamism, President Dr. Ali has chaperoned Guyana to rise as a global player on the international market in the green economy and to highlight Guyana’s economic growth to attract world investors to flood Guyana’s money-making gateway. In so doing, Guyana has levelled the playing field and is now positioned with unlimited opportunities for growth and development.
In the acknowledged eyes for appropriate appreciation, President Dr. Irfaan Ali has been applauded for his dynamic leadership role both at home and abroad. He has won accolades from every nook and cranny for changing the destiny of Guyana with his bold initiatives, technological innovations and unprecedented impressions. Winning consecutive Presidential elections, the only thing preventing him from winning a third term to serve is legislative limitation in the Constitution.
Last month, for strengthening economic ties, he was accredited with Brazil’s Order of Merit Fort Sao Joaquim, the highest of honors of the Brazilian state of Roraima. For his visionary leadership, he received accolades for the Global Leadership Award for Open Innovation (2025) from the University of California. Ghana accorded him with the Global Africa Leadership Award (2024) for his One Guyana philosophy.
President Ali was conferred in 2023 with Barbados’ highest national award, the Order of Freedom of Barbados for fostering regional integration. Again in 2023, India honored him with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honor conferred on overseas Indians. From 2020 to the current day, President Ali continues to be welcomed and garlanded in every community he visits.
On this ever-evolving journey on this vast land of many waters, people, places and problems, President Dr. Ali is cognizant that all is not well and there is a need for much more to be done. He hit the ground running from day one and has not stopped traversing, observing, listening, learning and acting accordingly. That is why his personal community outreach continues perpetually in all the regions. Winning 36 seats at the last election in 2025 is a testimony of his national acceptance.
While there are many ways to clinically skin the cat, Guyana’s devastating socioeconomic and deteriorating geopolitical problems inherited from the foster damaging PNC/AFC administration, will not be easily eradicated completely by the current PPP/C Government nor resolved in its entirety overnight. Poised as the wealthiest nation in the South per capita, Guyana’s growth has surpassed the dictates of doom and gloom from its shortsighted predecessor.
President Ali and the PPP/C Government has crafted a five-year plan in its manifesto to serve Guyana and Guyanese towards a higher standard of living, a better life and a comfortable livelihood. This administration has already swung Guyana’s pendulum. This country is no longer the second poorest country in the Southern Hemisphere.
President Ali’s compassion, care and concern for Guyanese interest, intolerance and improvisation, is of paramount importance that all communities throughout the length and breadth of Guyana, become free of any pollution in any kind, form or shape without any discrimination, disturbance or deterrents. Known for equal treatment, trust and transparency, he advocates for expeditious efficiency for effective and immediate remedy.
Last December, President Dr. Irfaan Ali assured the nation that, “Important to the future is building sustainable communities; communities that can withstand changing weather patterns, communities that are clean. In the next five years, we will continue to build infrastructure for sustainable communities that are safe and clean, where the streets are well lit, where drains are not clogged or polluted and where noise nuisances are no more.”
In this deliberation, President Ali has pronounced free zones for designated industrial and commercial areas to modernize communities, foster economic growth, and move businesses away from residential areas. Tiger bay is the first modern urban neighbourhood; Wales industrial Zone is the new industrial site for Region 3; Silica City is the modern township and East Bank Development is another extension of its kind.
The President is only human and cannot accomplish all these feats on his own. He has therefore tasked his Ministers and their ministries to undertake the successful accomplishments of his ideals, aspirations and promises which are made and kept to maintain faith, trust and hope in believing his honesty and loyalty and the dignity and integrity of the PPP/C party.
Last week the Honorable Housing Minister Colin Croal had to fire two contractors in Stewartville who breached their contracts. The Honorable Local Government Minister Priya Manickchand reminded NDC councilors and chairmen that they must serve the communities and not their status while calling on them to demonstrate commitment, accountability and daily efforts.
The Honorable Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony stressed that patients must not be denied care at public facilities and implored all to report any malfeasance in care, treatment or behaviour. But the Honorable Home Affairs Minister stole the show when Minister Oneidge Walrond charged the Guyana Police Force with: business is no longer usual while setting a zero tolerance and for the police to target within and without, corruption, bribery and abuse in power.
In his assurance to Guyanese, President Ali surmised, “We’re taking deliberate steps toward the beautification of our environment, deliberate steps in creating safe family environments, deliberate steps in creating and improving recreational facilities, deliberate steps in enhancing community life and, importantly, we’re taking deliberate steps in enhancing community life and, importantly, we’re taking deliberate steps in building out the drainage plan for every single region.”
Hopefully, all these dreams will materialize very soon and Guyanese will shortly live in clean, safe and noise free communities and will not later become discomforted with doubt, despair and dread.
Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall.
