Dear Editor,
There is a popular saying: When elephants wage war, all else get trampled underfoot. How apt is that to Guyana!
The two parliamentary opposition parties are at the throat of the ruling party and all Guyana is in limbo. Business is grinding to a halt because government is not spending. When will this end? For how long can employers delay the retrenchment of workers? For how long will the trampling underfoot continue?
If the opposition feels that the government is on the back foot, then it should use its parliamentary majority to call for snap elections. The PPP will not call for snap elections because it will perform worse than in the 2011 polls. The PPP has not learnt. Their field machinery has been dormant, passing wrong information to the party hierarchy. The head honchos in the party have isolated the people and the 49% at the last polls was their reward. The party is still in disarray and it cannot attract people who think outside of the box. It will therefore lose by a wide margin.
NICIL, etc, can all be challenged in court. Let government govern and be monitored by Parliament. Intertwining the two domains of the court and Parliament does little to move the country forward. I therefore appeal to all parties to let good sense prevail. So, APNU-AFC, let’s go back to the polls and stop holding the nation to ransom.
Yours faithfully,
Godfrey Skeete
