Dear Editor,
For the first time in Guyana, our youth make up over 60% of the electorate. This means that persons between the ages of 18 and 35 hold Guyana’s future in their hands. They must use this power wisely. Many young people are unemployed or underemployed and suffer many hardships in consequence.
In nearly 23 years nothing has been done to improve this lamentable situation despite repeated promises to the contrary. If government failed to deliver youth improvement in the last 23 years it is highly unlikely they will do so in the next five.
Many youth have been systematically marginalized while others, close to, or related to the power elite, are being singled out for progress both economic and social. This group of favoured youth will see to it that the vast majority of young people left behind, remain devalued and forever dependent on handouts.
The PPP manifesto undertaking to create employment for ordinary Guyanese youth is a fairy tale and should not be taken seriously.
Government’s interest is in placing family members of the ruling elite and their friends at the top of the economic and social ladder.
These favoured people are already extremely comfortable in every sense of the word and lack for nothing. Government’s objective is to make them even more financially, socially and politically secure regardless of their qualifications, intelligence, abilities or experience.
In fact government’s unspoken agenda is to perpetuate an unequal society where they have control and dominion over a systematically created class of impoverished, disinherited youth.
A vote for the PPP will play right into their hands. Guyana can come better and in doing so provide proper paying jobs, living conditions and happiness for our youth. But you young people have to play your part. You must make the change. It is time.
It is your time. Trust me.
Yours faithfully,
F. Hamley Case
