If only it’s because I’m past my mid–sixties, indulge with me as I share regrets and laments, in waffle and preaching today.
You know something? All of us matured Guyanese citizens, with any semblance of a social conscience, should weep, even figuratively, over the moral decline we are witnessing in our own society these days. Why? Because a nation without righteous, lasting, desireable values has no bedrock of longevity upon which generations to come can claim really decent lives. Instead, I now rather suspect that the new, modern “principles” of cheating, corruption, dog–eat–dog, crabs–in–the barrel will govern current behaviour – the new barometers of existence and success. Institutions of the state, even the so–called Church, are rendered unless. This is what I rue. All of us, law–abiding and still vested with the knowledge of right and wrong, should be extremely concerned as well. So to my caption about role – models. Poor but proud and trained in decency and good character, we of the
