Dear Editor,
The local newspapers’ headlines on Thursday 28th February highlighted the success of the much touted “Stakeholders Meeting”. I wish to probe deeper. Careful analysis of the forum exposes the spin and paucity of a plan that is light years from the real issues of crime and violence.
First, one needs to understand the mindset of the gathering. The government’s need is to chair a national spin fest, a plaster for the sores. The businessmen and religious community have become toothless poodles who just make up numbers. Then we have the opposition, the AFC lacks political depth and bargaining ability. The PNCR and Mr Corbin, the deal maker, dance with Mr Jagdeo.
The Americans support the government so they can use them to have a solid foothold in Guyana to keep watch on Mr Chavez.
Are the crimes and killings just out of the blue or do they represent deeper socio/economic turmoil precipitated by a decadent political culture?
How does this forum address the vast unemployment quagmire and poverty eating the heart and soul of our youths?
Who of this group understand hunger and hopelessness, have gone without meals, watched children drink sugar water for breakfast? Which of them after spending all on children to put them through high school have to watch them idle despite some having subjects at CXC as no jobs are available. I work with the poor and I have come to understand the anger and violence that are the byproduct of poverty and hopelessness.
The forum and national vaudeville has failed monumentally to seek real value and change.
Yours faithfully,
(name and address supplied)
