Dear Editor,
Despair is the correct descriptor to be used in the current national state of disequilibrium. Over the past months we have been exposed to the most erudite pontificators – individually and severally.
All rejoice in doom and gloom. Observers, however, would regard their views as cumulating into constipation; for it is difficult to discern any forward thinking even into this very emotive missive.
For example, institutional representation of the private sector, if any, is but eloquent in its silence. The engine of growth is stalled, waiting to be pushed, if not just accommodated one side or the other.
The potential for new political interventions are modest. Leadership consist of words, devoid of any pragmatic dynamism. It is but a mere suggestion. How-ever rational, it does not command. Those of us who are defectives in followership, keep anxiously waiting to be incentivized, by a rallying call from the purported champions of the future dispensation.
Whatever the status, the vision, campaign, why do not the vocalists organise a structured wide-ranging series of forums aimed at strategising a new Guyana? Why do they not foregather the range of expertise and competencies so necessary for professionalising, not just a new governance structure of compatible components, but perhaps more fundamentally, invest in a determined campaign to neutralise the psyche of ethnicity with which the society is riven, particularly as it is on the verge of being further exploited by hordes of international predators, blithely called investors?
Surely it must be recognised that future political arrangements could no longer be that of ‘communities’ and of ‘Public’ functionaries. There will be a substantively new climate change, for which practitioners and commentators could never be fully prepared. How do they see their responsibilities for the future of the millennial generations? Will they be prepared to be accountable for the performance deficits we seem so prone to repeat? Those of us who are aging quickly can only envy younger colleagues the opportunities which are beckoning for them to be creative, proactive, to relate to one another, the one goal of belonging to the same team.
Please respected comrades, hurry up and organise a First Forum, where fresh, positive ideas can be tabled, individual plans concretised into a dual national strategy.
After all is said and done, I have joined the ranks of the soothsayers. Please help.
Yours faithfully,
Earl John
