I won’t ever use the cliché “Happy Independence Day…” Rather, I normally agree with the annual observance as there is always much more needed for celebration.
So today I encourage reflection as is my wont. A sober, reflective 51st Anniversary to all fellow citizens.
And now for my brief but ever-present cynicism: knowing full well that I dare not attempt to speak for all my over-seventy countrymen – (there are hundreds of senior die-hard PNC-ites for example – I still make bold to state that if you are over seventy/eighty now; if then you can be objectively honest with yourself; if you can submerge any solid partisan party politics you embraced); if you have travelled and can compare and analyse; if you can stare down development/non-development realities, you must conclude that we – led by our political managers – have let Independent Guyana and ourselves down. Down-down-down!
