Dear Editor,
Yesterday, the flooding which closed our dental office on Charlotte Street and is costing a lot to clean up plus lost revenue, is a continuing problem which is affecting many Guyanese businesses and ordinary citizens. We are presented with a budget which uses up a lot of our oil earnings but yet, we still get blackouts, poor water supply and flooding all over our country, not to mention, the plight of our senior citizens and working poor. How long do we have to endure flooding in the centre of our only city? How long do we have to endure the lack of proper electricity? How long do we have to endure poor water supply, where, if one does not have tanks and maybe a pump, citizens have serious problems? How long do our senior citizens have to endure the pittance they get for old age pension?
Editor, we should seek the help of ExxonMobil, our real partner in development to the future and em-bark on a real free enterprise system but designed to uplift and enhance Guyana and based on the foundations of foreign investment and free trade; decentralization of the Government with the shutdown of many ministries to avoid the bloated governmental structure we all pay for; privatization of water, electricity and irrigation to foreign investment like President Hoyte did to create a much better privately owned GT&T stamping out corruption and squandermania in the running of our economy.
Editor, Exxon is worldwide, a very big player and Exxon is our friend and Exxon has all the correct liai-sons to solve our main problems, including securing our borders and finding the best investors to solve our inherent daily lamentations by developing a real free enterprise system for Guyana- a system we’ve never had but one that we desperately need – where government does not own the water or electricity, newspapers nor gasoline stations and democracy is governed by constituency based elections (like Trinidad or the USA) and freedom of the press is paramount.
Editor, Guyana has taken the first steps in creating a free enterprise system (after all the years of communism/socialism = backwardness- check Cuba) by accepting Exxon’s investments in our beloved country but the road to success could become a road to perdition if we engage with the wrong foreign partners when Exxon has proved to be an excellent investor and is surely a great example of a company birthed and developed in the very bosom of capitalism. We should move to engage Exxon in solving these internal problems by utilizing their connections worldwide while we look at projects like an American military base in Guyana, a NASA blastoff complex in Guyana (like French Guiana has) and US and European investments in agriculture which are very important to our future. Privatization of water, electricity irrigation and sea defence not only will relieve the great frustrations Guyanese are fed up with, but set the stage for a secure future with entrepreneurship and a strong private sector as the driving forces.
So, “big” boys, call on Exxon for the best advice and “little” boys, stop your nonsense with attacks on Exxon – our best friend ever!