When we think of the enormous sacrifices and hardships our foreparents made to carve this blessed land into the Guyanese nation, we ought to hang our heads in shame at the way we insist on being as a people of the 21st century global village.
Think of what the slaves, coolie labourers and Portugese, Chinese and Amerindian peoples suffered in the hot broiling sun to construct our sugar cane fields, rice fields and towns and villages. Think of how the British came here and fought with the Dutch, French and Spanish to make us an English-speaking people.
Think of the fight of Dr Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham and Dr Walter Rodney and Sir Arthur Chung, of David de Caires and Peter d’Aguiar and Janet Jagan and Desrey Fox dreaming of a great Guyana, sacrificing their lives in service to, and for, us.
Today, don’t we mock the enormous service these pioneering stalwarts made for us, with the way we are being? Do we remember how they bent their backs