In present-day Guyana, democracy itself has been wounded and lays prone awaiting urgent attention. The current government is guilty of wounding democracy in many ways in our Nation. It is not just a case of truckloads of lies, blatant favouritism, and bare-faced thievery. It is not just a case of clamping shut the mouths of the majority of the citizens of this country while they pillage the treasury. Those things are bad enough. It is much worse.
In present-day Guyana, the most vulnerable have been made more vulnerable, the victimized are subject to greater hardship and economic torture. We must realize that democracy is not just the simplicity of numbers—who got how many votes! Essentially, a true democracy takes care
