Shaping our self-image

How could we motivate and inspire our fellow citizens to live their best, to wake up every day believing in the Guyana Dream, to tackle the task of self-development with zeal and gusto?

At the end of the day, this nation would develop only to the extent of our citizens achieving their own personal development. The society, made up of us, individual Guyanese, develops in proportion to our own self-development.

20130314shaunSo this idea of giving individual citizens the tools to self-develop becomes crucial.

This, of course, veers away from the collectivist ideology of the ruling Party. We cannot develop our nation if we look at ourselves as a collective whole. Instead, we must see each person as a dynamic, important element in the social fabric.

One could easily argue that the crisis of governance we find