Dear Editor,
As you make your sad and lamentable exit today, I wish to join with almost the entire Guyana in thanking you for your invaluable service over the past 40 years.[1]
Those with very short and opportunistic memories conveniently forget your fight for democracy in this country.
As a fourth generation PPP supporter (no longer) I have to share a sentence that was told to me by my daughter. It is so pregnant with truth and realism that I must share it.
She told me that Exxon and the Government of Guyana have priced ordinary Guyanese out of Guyana. From groceries in the supermarket, to vegetables in the market, a meal at a decent restaurant, renting a simple apartment – ordinary Guyanese are now worse off than second class citizens.
Expatriates dine and wine together with some locals who think they are Expats also at the finest restaurants, eat the best food, whilst grandfathers and grandmothers eke out a living as security guards and other menial jobs, with a Private Sector minimum wage of $60,000 per month. Shameless Private Sector Commission.
Those who presently bask in glory and students of history may wish to reread their revolutionary texts.
I bid you farewell with a heavy heart but also with a heart full of gratitude.