There was once a visitor to Dublin, lost somewhere near the city centre who stopped and asked a passer-by for directions. The story is that he got the very Irish reply: “If you want to get there, 
boyo, you certainly shouldn’t start from where you are now.”
That would make a pretty good reply to anyone in Guyana today asking directions how to achieve a prosperous economy and a tolerant, progressive society. You shouldn’t start from where you are now if you could help it.
The here and now of Guyana is too full of interminable political back-biting, too depressed by a deadly social malaise, too immured in corruptible bureaucratic procedures to make it a very good place right now from which to start a journey towards national reconciliation and economic resurgence.
