From time to time, our leaders try desperately to separate the Guyanese people mostly by identifying the differences in race, ethnicity and class, especially at election time when it suits them. However, the national mores and cultural attitudes of the ABC countries act as the great neutralizer. As a result, Guyanese of all stripes and educational levels exhibit phenomenal success in this new competitive environment to the point where it boggles the mind.

In a nutshell, my observation is that the Guyanese DNA explodes
exponentially in the ABC countries, while this same enterprising, creative and ingenious DNA is stifled into laziness and nothingness at home. The answer is the Gov’t and the system employed.

I migrated after ‘A’ levels for academic studies, so Mr George I don’t recall knowing you personally, but your quote: “Cheddi was a great (hum??) Caribbean and South American man (nice word) who was probably before his time”… Interesting statement about time, but Cheddi should never have graced the political stage with Marxist/Leninist rhetoric without critical analysis and recognition of British Guiana’s colonial history in the first place. What a mistake of underestimation of the Guyanese people and this is coming from, according to Cheddi himself, one of his favorite dental patients.

At the time, multi-cultural, multi-racial and the calypso ‘happy-go-lucky’ attitudes were not and probably will never be ready for the financial sacrifices and the strict disciplines of socialist nation building. Guyanese people like fun and freedom too much. Cheddi grossly misinterpreted the aspirations of his fellow countrymen since a painful 42years of evidence is proof that these characteristics were never in the Guyanese people’s DNA. Brain drain along with the Diaspora’s success in the ABC countries accurately identifies the DNA of the Guyanese man and woman.

If Cheddi Jagan was great because he fought against colonialism and capitalism that were/are evil, then show me the benefits of the alternatives to both colonialism and capitalism! Cheddi embraced communisn and socialism, so show me what these have done for Guyana.

And if colonialism and capitalism are so evil, tell me why Guyanese (especially Indian supporters of Cheddi and the PPP) chose to live in countries (Britain, Canada and America) run by the same people who were either our colonial masters or partners with them, rather than choose to live in Cuba, China, North Korea or even the then Soviet Union!

These foreign countries now run by former colonial masters and friends have allowed thousands of Guyanese to achieve their potential and even been a source of financial suupport for the sagging Guyanese economy that has been destroyed by PPP and PNC communist and socialist experiments! Can you achieve your potential in communist states?

Colonialism and capitalism may have been bad at the time we sought independence, but what the PPP and PNC offered as alternatives were downright disgraceful; nay, worse than evil!