We politicize everything in this society. Unless we see institutions as dynamic, organic bodies, each working to achieve unique goals unhinged of sinister political motives, we would not move forward.
We take our own sweet time to solve the problems that beset us, unnecessarily dragging out the development of this nation, and the fulfilling of the potential inherent in the Guyanese soul.
Brigadier David Granger’s sensible cry for political cooperation in governance of this land comes at a crucial time in our history Granger toured the Guyanese New York, USA, diaspora communities this week, and responded to widespread criticism of how his Opposition leads Parliament, with a dramatic appeal to the spirit of engagement, reaching out and cooperation.
Next week we celebrate 48 years of Independence. Ours is yet a young nation, still growing up.
Our nation suffers from a world-record brain drain. This is our most fundamental crisis.
US Ambassador, Brent Hardt, plays a dynamic role in our society.
We need human development. Our society lacks two fundamental tenets of a 21st century society: focus on developing a knowledge society, and action to cultivate human development.
We know one thing for sure, in this year of 2014: we Guyanese live in a society trapped in developmental deformity.
Parliament, the national media and the State carry on a constant clattering noise of raucous rowdiness, quite divorced from the concerns of the citizens of this land.
Our nation, the Guyanese civilization, this society, exists in language. We chose to define ourselves, a nation forged under fiery forced labour in the British Empire, through words, names, language.
Our nation drags through its days, under the searing sun on the edge of the vast broiling Atlantic Ocean with the green waves of virgin forests shaping our dear land, facing this void: we lack a national vision.
Let’s look at our nation along its historical curve. From our formation as a people welded together in the fiery furnace of harsh, back-brukin’ labour on broiling-sun agro-estates, we today struggle to forge the Guyanese way of being.
Rice farmers walk their fields today with worried wrinkles on their faces, as they face poor paddy prices, uncertain international markets and hefty bank loans.
We must solve two challenges facing us as we work to develop our nation.
When former President Bharrat Jagdeo took ill last week and ended up in the United States for emergency medical treatment, we witnessed how low we could sink as a nation.
Our idea of what makes a developed society informs us how to build this nation.
Ironic, isn’t it, that on the same day news flared up in the United States and Europe that the Italian mafia connects with Guyana to smuggle narcotics across the world, General Secretary of the ruling political party, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, was launching a verbal attack against the free, independent press?
How real is our Parliament, as a repository of the power of the people, to effect good governance?
Young people make up most of our nation’s population today. And unless we create sound ways to mentor and coach and develop these young minds, we would stumble along into our default future, another generation lost, unable to rise to our potential.
We face system failures in this society that cause severe social crisis.
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