Ways of Looking & Feeling

How real is our Parliament, as a repository of the power of the people, to effect good governance?

Young people make up most of our nation’s population today. And unless we create sound ways to mentor and coach and develop these young minds, we would stumble along into our default future, another generation lost, unable to rise to our potential.

We face system failures in this society that cause severe social crisis.

Cussing out one another when we disagree on an issue cannot generate solutions to our problems.

We launch this new year, well into the second decade of the 21st century, with tremendous challenges facing us.

Guyanese around the world engage on social media with dynamic energy, sharing our views, ideas and opinions about the state of our homeland.

Social media steamed with stunned shock this week at an electrifying media statement out of the headquarters of the ruling People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP), Freedom House.

We talk so easily of the dichotomy between developed and developing societies, without staring stark reality in the face, without confronting the differences, without active challenging of our abstract acceptance of our condition.

Our nation faces crucial, crushing problems, and the only way out demands that citizens of good conscience and sound mind work at designing solutions.

For decades, great and noble Guyanese souls fought for democracy to become our solid foundation, believing it would lead to us realizing our true potential as a nation.

In the face of stunning failures at State level to transform our nation, we must applaud the few citizens who envision and lead private initiatives to make a defining difference for Guyanese.

To self-develop, a person must exercise that crucial essential life-skill of critical thinking.

Citizens concerned about this society want urgent action to rid our communities of crime.

In our quest to create the kind of future we aspire to, we must cultivate the ability to know the root cause of why we are where we are today.

Questions of corruption dog this Government with determined persistence. The list of State projects and shadowy dealings over which huge question marks hang runs long, and problematic.

We fail to audit the real results of our efforts at developing our society.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Facing critical challenges in the Guyanese homeland, like our shortage of skills and lack of a world class human resource capital pool, we need to exercise creative thinking to find solutions.

Our society faces these three crucial, persistent problems as 2013 enters its last quarter.

Walking through the Georgetown Public Hospital becomes an experience of profound despair.