Dear Editor,
I follow events in Guyana (too) avidly but I am failing to see any vision emerging about the size, shape and timbre of the society in 2030. There’s massive amounts of money thanks to oil and gas, plenty infrastructure development (roads, bridges etc.,), much politicking, much hand to hand and day to day fighting, much whining and naysaying, racism galore but no agreed picture of the future towards which you/we are all working. No vision. Sad to behold. I have a brief suggestion.
The President appoints a 2030 Commission of the ‘Great and the Good’ and the reverse. The fewer politicians on it the better.
They meet swiftly and appoint small sub committees on daily life, jobs, leisure, culture and more. They talk and think. Give them space to dream. Their work is then brought together in a short sharp document (something the Guyanese need to learn) presented to the President but more importantly to the nation in the first month of 2024. It just needs imagination and brainpower. You already have the economic base. Over to you, Irfaan and Guyana.
Sincerely,
John ‘Bill Cotton/Reform’ Mair
