Dear Editor,
The Government of Guyana is in a mid-term crisis at the moment with local government elections postponed till some time next year, the Ministry of Health fire, and the Robert Simels trial in New York which is adding fuel to the fire. The opposition parties, especially the PNC, are using every opportunity to play the blame game. The AFC has joined the band. It doesn’t look too good though for a government that preaches transparency every single day.
The media in Guyana now have an important job to do in covering these events and issues in an unbiased way which would give the citizens accurate information. Televi-sion evening newscasts can either fan the flames or employ selective reporting or report based on the facts to a population hungry for information. The newspapers, too, have a responsibility to do the right thing.
The government needs to stop denying certain things and fess up if such is required. Corruption continues to exist within the Government of Guyana today on a large scale. Most of this goes unseen and unheard by the population.
The PNC must not forget what they did while in office. They did it barefacedly. The PPP is dictating behind the scenes. Well, not so behind the scenes any more, considering the information spewing from the New York courtroom daily. The population must decide. The facts are bound to come out.
With all the information being divulged daily in the press, I wonder which sections of the population are accessing such information. I further wonder if certain sections of the population are extracting and comprehending the information in an accurate manner, because these same people would flock the street corners and bottom houses when the political leaders show up in their communities to hold community meetings.
These same persons would praise the government when they visit their communities and put ‘malas’ around their necks.
When all is said and done though, as someone put forward to me the other day, only the PPP can run this country – no other party. They are, like it or not, the best of the worst; the lesser of two evils. And we Guyanese, like it or not, must accept and live with that reality.
Yours faithfully,
Leon J. Suseran
