Dear Editor,
People are now quite frankly sick and tired of what passes for politics in Guyana; it is dismaying to find oneself saying this just a few months after the ushering in of a historic new parliament that one hoped would have taught our politicians a few needed lessons in humility and accountability. For weeks we have been treated to lengthy exchanges between Finance Minister Ashni Singh and former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge. What people are concerned with today is what Ashni Singh will propose to do with Guyanese taxpayers’ money now, what accountability and timeliness mean to him as Finance Minister today, whether he is accountable to his party and narrow partisan interests or to the Guyanese electorate that just went to the polls, whether he will join all Guyanese in a detailed examination of the country’s finances, especially as these relate to expenses for which taxpayers are continuing to spend and secret deals for which future generations will be paying for decades to come, and whether parliament will act responsibly as the custodian of the interests of all Guyanese and not just as a rubber stamp for the interests of the powerful. We are fed up with the stupid, interminable and predictable back and forth, and the worst part is that it is the Guyanese people who continue to be the biggest losers in this. It is now 20 years since a PNC administration, so why are we still pointing back? Or is it that Minister Singh needs to keep us distracted because there is truly something to hide?
Yours faithfully,
Alissa Trotz
