Dear Editor,
Known for his no-nonsense direct approach, his long, enduring working shifts, and summoning meetings in the wee hours of the morning, President Dr Irfaan Ali is not beating around the bush. He typically grabs the bull by the horns and wastes no time getting to the core of a problem. His untiring efforts have resulted in Guyana’s transformative journey from poverty to prosperity.
Under his esteemed dynamism, President Dr Ali has guided Guyana to rise as a global player in the international market for the green economy and to highlight Guyana’s economic growth, attracting world investors to flood Guyana’s money-making gateway. In doing so, Guyana has levelled the playing field and is now positioned with unlimited opportunities for growth and development.
In the eyes of those who appreciate his work, President Dr Irfaan Ali has been applauded for his dynamic leadership role both at home and abroad. He has won accolades from every nook and cranny for changing the destiny of Guyana with his bold initiatives, technological innovations, and unprecedented impressions. Winning consecutive presidential elections, the only thing preventing him from winning a third term is a legislative limitation in the Constitution.
Last month, for strengthening economic ties, he was awarded Brazil’s Order of Merit Fort São Joaquim, the highest of honours from the Brazilian state of Roraima. For his visionary leadership, he received accolades for the Global Leadership Award for Open Innovation (2025) from the University of California. Ghana accorded him the Global Africa Leadership Award (2024) for his One Guyana philosophy.
President Ali was conferred in 2023 with Barbados’ highest national award, the Order of Freedom of Barbados, for fostering regional integration. Again in 2023, India honoured him with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honour conferred on overseas Indians. From 2020 to the present day, President Ali continues to be welcomed and garlanded in every community he visits.
On this ever-evolving journey through this vast land of many waters, people, places, and problems, President Dr Ali is cognisant that all is not well and that much more needs to be done. He hit the ground running from day one and has not stopped traversing, observing, listening, learning, and acting accordingly. That is why his personal community outreach continues perpetually in all regions. Winning 36 seats in the last election of 2025 is a testament to his national acceptance.
While there are many ways to skin a cat, Guyana’s devastating socioeconomic and deteriorating geopolitical problems inherited from the damaging PNC/AFC Administration will not be easily eradicated completely by the current PPP/C Government nor resolved overnight. Positioned as the wealthiest nation in the South per capita, Guyana’s growth has surpassed the dictates of doom and gloom from its short-sighted predecessor.
President Ali and the PPP/C Government have crafted a five-year plan in their manifesto to serve Guyana and Guyanese toward a higher standard of living, a better life, and a comfortable livelihood. This Administration has already shifted Guyana’s pendulum. This country is no longer the second poorest in the Southern Hemisphere.
President Ali’s compassion, care, and concern for Guyanese interests and intolerance toward any impropriety are of paramount importance. All communities throughout the length and breadth of Guyana must become free of any pollution in any kind, form, or shape, without discrimination, disturbance, or deterrents. Known for equal treatment, trust, and transparency, he advocates for expeditious efficiency for effective and immediate remedies.
Last December, President Dr Irfaan Ali assured the nation that it is “important to the future to build sustainable communities, communities that can withstand changing weather patterns, communities that are clean.” In the next five years, we will continue to build infrastructure for sustainable communities that are safe and clean, where the streets are well-lit, where drains are not clogged or polluted, and where noise nuisances are no more.”
In this deliberation, President Ali pronounced free zones for designated industrial and commercial areas to modernise communities, foster economic growth, and move businesses away from residential areas. Tiger Bay is the first modern urban neighbourhood; Wales Industrial Zone is the new industrial site for Region Three; Silica City is the modern township, and East Bank Development is another extension of its kind.
The president is only human and cannot accomplish all these feats on his own. He has, therefore, tasked his Ministers and their Ministries to undertake the successful achievement of his ideals, aspirations, and promises which are made and kept to maintain faith, trust, and hope in his honesty, loyalty, and the dignity and integrity of the PPP/C party.
Last week, the honourable Housing Minister Colin Croal had to fire two contractors in Stewartville who breached their contracts. The Honourable Local Government Minister Priya Manickchand reminded NDC councillors and chairmen that they must serve the communities and not their status while calling on them to demonstrate commitment, accountability, and daily efforts.
The Honourable Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony, stressed that patients must not be denied care at public facilities and implored all to report any malfeasance in care, treatment, or behaviour.
The Honourable Home Affairs Minister stole the show when Minister Oneidge Walrond charged the Guyana Police Force with business no longer being usual, while setting a zero-tolerance policy for the police to target corruption, bribery, and abuse of power both within and outside.
In his assurance to Guyanese, President Ali surmised, “We’re taking deliberate steps toward the beautification of our environment, deliberate steps in creating safe family environments, deliberate steps in creating and improving recreational facilities, deliberate steps in enhancing community life and, importantly, deliberate steps in building out the drainage plan for every single region.”
Hopefully, all these dreams will materialise very soon, and Guyanese will shortly live in clean, safe, and noise-free communities and will not later become discomforted with doubt, despair, and dread.