Visits by US congressmen spark hope in some and demonstrate desperation in others. Ignored or silenced ones may not be heard when it is ones in suits and ties and ladies in their finest who sit in offices to paint pictures of glory to those who now know that Guyana exists. However sometimes ignored and silenced voices may be heard – like those in Mocha who spoke fearlessly about their troubles in the presence of government representatives and the US congressman Jonathan Jackson who was invited to Guyana by the government. There were allegations about discrimination, racial and economic. We are in a time in Guyana where some of our people are being told that for bridges and roads their lives must be interrupted. Such interruptions are costly and when the people feel that what they own, what was fought for and what was bought after the foot of the slave masters eased off their necks, is not respected or valued as it should be, there will be discord.