AFC urges an awakening in 2010

The party, in its New Year’s message, said that the country’s nightmare has been that the young and most talented dream of distancing themselves from this land.

“Let 2010 be the start of an awakening from this nightmare where we not only seek to multiply our possessions, but in the same process multiply our values; where we not only make a living but also live a better life,” the party said.

According to the party, last year emphasized the need for Guyanese to live, work and play in unity.

“Moreover, it has revealed these simple truths: that we must ensure an ordering of our national affairs which will see less wastage of our resources at all levels – governmental, corporate and the individual; that we must begin lifestyles which will ensure a sustainable development so that our world as it is will still be there for our generations to come; that we, especially politicians and leaders, ensure a governance which exhibits qualities of tolerance, harmony and honesty,” the party said.

“We must as a people and leaders proceed to right the many wrongs by taking notice of inconvenient truths, and not spurn ideas when they do not come from our own group-think.”

The message, signed by party Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan, wished all Guyanese a happy new year.