Food shortages and medical drug scarcities; crime and hyperinflation; mismanagement and dictatorship. Are such issues oppressing and killing the Guyanese populace? There is no apparent shortage of food here though some of our citizens do starve. But even the homeless wanderers manage to find morsels to continue what often appears as wretched existences. However, maybe because they are not burdened by the demands that control most of our lives, they are also freer than most of us.
At times there are shortages of medicine; we have heard complaints about public institutions, such as the Georgetown Public Hospital, frequently lacking certain drugs. Though the institution is supposed to provide free medical care, relatives of the sick must often buy some of the medicine they need. Nevertheless, at this time it does not seem like we are in a crisis.
Crime, of course, is ever present; murders and robberies are prevalent as are corporate crimes, whose perpetrators are often the most powerful and so escape prosecution. We have experienced inflation. Mismanagement and dictatorship are part of the reason we have not progressed further as a nation. But certainly, these issues are not responsible for a current exodus even though Guyanese are continuously migrating.
