Dear Editor,
I don’t think that Team President Granger and Team Bharrat Jagdeo really understand how this process of selecting a Chairman or not selecting a Chairman for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and when to hold elections and when not to hold elections is having on our people and society.
Day after day, night after night; it is what the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) meant or did not mean by the Consequential Orders and whether the Chief Justice was right or wrong that the No Confidence Motion was passed; whether the Court of Appeal was right or wrong; whether there should be House–to-House registration or not. Whether House-to-House registration is constitutional or legal or not? This process is confusing this country and the people of this country and we cannot continue like this; something has to give. 1 Corinthians14:33 says… ‘For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace…’; this process is confusing this nation.
My advice to President Granger is as follows: Genesis 41:8… ‘In the morning his (Pharaoh’s) mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him’…Genesis 41:14 …‘So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon (Prison)’. There are times when the burdens of leadership can be so great and the issues so complicated; and what you are up against is so intense, that all the magicians and wisemen cannot find the answers. There comes a point in time when leaders, whether they be in Government or Opposition, need to send for a ‘Joseph’ from prison (not literal prison) but from a place that is unusual from which leaders to call for good counsel. President Granger, you need to send for Joseph, Mr. Jagdeo, you need to send for Joseph.
Further, if I was an advisor to President Granger and the Leader of the Opposition, my advice would be, to take a day off, give your wisemen and wisewomen a day off too; and sit down, just the two of you; not as President or Leader of the Opposition but as two citizens who love your country and your people and simply talk to each other. Say to each other that there is a lot of history between our political parties and there is a lot of history in the country; there is a lot of history among our peoples but the way we are leading, is not transformative and this is not the legacy we should leave.
Say to each other, that with 750,000 people, 83,000 square miles and a country that is about to become one of the richest in the world and for the good of our country, we will work together. Let us stop this divisive way of leading right now, for the good of our country. Let us be the two leaders who change the history of this country. Let us be the two leaders who brought Guyana together. Let us be the leaders who realize the National Motto ‘One People, One Nation, One Destiny’. Any leader can keep a nation divided but real power, real authority lies in the hands of those leaders who can bring a nation together.
I challenge President Granger and Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo, to bring this nation together for this our finest hour!
For this to happen, we would need to start over, let’s wipe the slate clean in 2019. The Government may have to cancel the cases at SARA and SOCU against the PPP/C. PPP/C would have to forgive the PNC and the PNC would have to forgive the PPP and let’s reconcile this nation, let us move on with building this country for the younger generation.
One thing is clear over the past months, is that the answer to this country’s problems does not lie in the hands of the Judiciary; it is more a condition of the hearts of our leaders.
This is not about winning and losing an election, right now we are all losers. We have been losers for over 60 years… When are we going to start winning…together?
Yours faithfully,
Audreyanna Thomas
