Dear Editor,
The Stabroek News editorial of Monday June 8, ‘Transition and the road ahead’ for me was a masterpiece. While plain, simply and lucidly constructed, in a profound way it demonstrated great concern for this nation. Every point, observation, advice and caution cited was well rooted and critical to the health of this APNU+AFC government.
The editorial, like a true people’s representative, spoke for all our people, reflecting their longings and desire in the way a vibrant trade union ought to fend for its workers, or the way in which a zealous, perspicacious attorney stays on track in the case of his woebegone client. I dare say that I don’t think that there is any patriotic Guyanese, none! who voted on May 11 who would say otherwise in relation to this well-crafted viewpoint expressed on behalf of this nation.
I like very much the editorial’s reflection in bringing the 1992 elections to the fore. Ah yes! the euphoria, the “boundless enthusiasm”, the passion and “flurry of promises” − they were no different from now. Observe APNU+AFC supporters who after victory was declared were like swarms of bees in a frenzy taking the ‘garbage city’ and its black, muddy, silted-up old drains to task − so too in other places.
I tip my hat to Stabroek News for this decent and in some ways inspiring editorial; I cannot agree with you more when you say we have had more than our fair share of debilitating power play that has robbed us of real progress since independence.
I still maintain that though the trees be loaded, the fruit is not within the reach of the ordinary everyday working man.
The accord was an agreement, now the government has a mandate; with gimlet eyes we now watch and wait – a rendezvous with time and date.
What a pity SN is so discriminatory about ac-cepting verses for publication, for I would have liked to share with the public one I put together for the coalition: ‘To Whom It May Concern.’
Yours faithfully,
Frank Fyffe
