Dear Editor,
I pen this letter as I reminisce on the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter”.
Our strength as a Nation, our survival as a people lies in our transcendental unity. Only with unity can we truly succeed.
Guyana, our country for years has been a peaceful nation to all of our neighbours in Caricom, South America and further borders, primarily because we are a peaceful and loving people.
That peace we have enjoyed for years with our neighbours and friends is one in which we as a nation have always aspired to preserve and maintain.
It is most regrettable for us Guyanese, local and in the diaspora to recognize that this peaceful synchronicity of our existence as a nation is now being threatened by the moral confusion of the leader of our neighbouring country, Venezuela. Many have pontificated that the uncontrollable domestic socio and economic conundrum his country is experiencing has caused him to embark on an iniquitous political ambition which it is believed is intended to divert his people’s attention from the realities they are encountering.
This diversion exercise is only succeeding in uprooting the mutual trust, friendship, respect and confidence shared for years amongst goodly neighbours.
Guyana and several of its sisters Caribbean states have become the innocent victims and fall prey to this country’s President’s moral confusion, aggression, imperialist and colonialist attempts to claim our territories and trample on our freedom, sovereignty and the future prosperity of our peoples and generations to come.
Guyana must continue to lead the charge to repudiate and disavow this unfriendly and aggressive attempt that is rooted and clothed with wicked and evil garments. Guyana must in the truest sense of the word ‘unity ‘, unite all of its people and rally with our President and his government in standing as a collective, firm, resolute and valiantly, to ward off this repugnant and offensive illegal and sanctimonious claim to what rightfully belongs to us.
With a united front as one people, with the needed help from our friends in Caricom, the Commonwealth, the ABC countries and others but most importantly the hand of Almighty God, we will be crowned with success and victory will be ours.
In unity there is strength and we will not remain silent on things that matters.
Long live our President; long live the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Yours faithfully,
Jermaine Figueira.M.P.
