Dear Editor,
Just as the Israelites were in the wilderness for 40 years, likewise the Guyanese have been in the wilderness for over 50 years.
Fifty years later, the life of the Guyanese people is still sadly crippled by overwhelming unemployment, domestic violence, and the people still live in dire poverty and with blackouts.
Fifty years later, there’s still mass migration, people are still treated as second class citizens, looked down on and talked down to by the politicians.
Fifty years later, the Guyanese people all still don’t have clean drinking water, are betrayed and deceived by politicians, while the politicians gave themselves mansions and pay raises and corruption is still rampant,
It’s time for a change of the way the country is being led. It’s time for the people of this country to recognize and realize that the politicians have deceived and divided us.
It’s time for the people of this country to get fired up and get rid of the political parties which have failed them and bring in new leaders.
These new leaders must not be politicians. They can be scientists, businessmen and women, bankers, economists, professors, doctors, lawyers, judges, teachers and others.
These new leaders must put the people of this country first. They must not treat Guyanese like second class citizens.
Throughout the country’s history, the Guyanese people have been governed by politicians who put themselves first and treated the citizenry like second class citizens. It’s time for the people of this country to give a new group of people a chance to lead them.
For many years, the politicians promised the nation change, but they never delivered. There has been little progress.
Editor, after their dismal performances, I can’t believe that the politicians still have the audacity to ask the people to continue to support them.
I say to the citizenry don’t give them your vote.
It’s time to vote for new leaders. Therefore, I am proposing that the citizenry ask the Guyanese in the diaspora to come back to Guyana and run for the president of the country.
The country cannot continue voting for the same people elections after elections and expect a different result. It’s insanity. It’s time for a change. It’s time for new leadership. It’s time to bring in the diaspora to run the country.
It’s time to take back the country from the politicians.
It’s time to join the battle, to save the country and our lives. It is time to stop being treated as a second class citizen, to end the strife between the local and diaspora, to forgive and forget about our past differences and chart a new course for the future of the country. It’s time for the local and Guyanese diaspora to put aside their differences and unite for the good of the country.
It is time to stop thinking that the political parties will change and bring in new leadership. It’s time to give the diaspora a chance to run the country. They are our only hope for the country’s future. It’s time to do something radical. It’s time to bring back home the diaspora and let them run for president.
Yours faithfully,
Anthony Pantlitz
