Resolving to make 2013 our best year

Could our Guyanese nation resolve to make 2013 the best year in our history?

Given the way we govern ourselves as a people, the question may provoke cynical scepticism rather than an inspired resolve to indeed make this our best year yet.

Let’s be positive, optimistic and solution-oriented. Let’s make a list of a few achievements that would make 2013 the best year in the history of the Guyanese people.

Restoring the Garden City

20120719shaunFirst, we must restore our capital city, Georgetown, to its glory as a Garden City. We want a clean, well-drained, landscaped city.

Apart from the health benefits, such a city restores to Guyanese a sense of aesthetics and beauty.

But it also makes perfect economic sense, for if we could