How can we better organise our society? : Kaieteur News

Dear Editor,
When one looks at Guyana and looks also at Mauritius, one truly understands how the PNC and the PPP failed us.? That is why is it so important that more of our people discontinue thinking race and vote for change.
Is it a marvel that Mauritius, a country which had a per capita income of $400 in 1968 (same as Guyana), now boasts of a per capita income of $6,700 vs. Guyana?s $2,800, almost 2? times richer? In Mauritius, 87% of the people own their own homes, vs. where only about 58% of our people own homes.
The PPP must be credited for distributing some 80,000 house lots over the last 19 years but we, the AFC, will do even better; our vision is not to distribute house lots only but to create communities with playgrounds and community centres for people to grow as one people, one community with one destiny.
The real question on Guyana is not whether we can afford to provide a better life for our people but rather how can we better organise our society?? An AFC Government will create constitutional institutions, which are beyond the controls of the Office of the President.
These constitutional institutions will lead the way in motivating our people to have higher levels of trust among themselves and facilitate higher levels of social cohesion.
We know the greatest impediment to cooperation between workers, Government and employees is poor respect for each other and lack of trust.? These impediments must be fixed and our leaders will not be allowed to shout at the top of their voice that the opposition ?has blood on their hands? without empirical evidence, contributing to the mistrust and lack of respect in our society.
Even a President Ramjattan can be sanctioned in the new AFC constitution if he undermines religious, racial and ethnic tolerance and respect.? In our last conversation Mr Ramjattan re-emphasized his total commitment to the rule of law, respect for all races, all religion and all gender.
The AFC Government shall be committed at the highest levels of the Executive, to a better welfare system, motivating greater productivity from our people, and to reducing the gap between the rich and the poor.
Unfortunately, this Jagdeo regime pays our elders starvation pensions; those at the bottom of the economic ladder starvation wages; all leading to more people engaging in a ?survival of the fittest?, selfish lifestyle.? This has only one conclusion ? lower productivity and higher criminal activity.? Nations are never molded this way and it is clear that the PPP has lost the plot.
In the new PPP, it is all about the business buddies and the close friends of the ruling cabal.? Well everybody cannot be a PPP business buddy, so an increasing silent majority continues to punish under the PPP as the business buddies, many of whom are nothing else but economic predators, continue to flourish at the workers? expense.
We in the AFC continue to recognize that the annual budget is skewed toward the friends of the PPP, fostering the untenable situation of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
We recognize that Guyana is still struggling with the inequality of land distribution with the poor saddled with high taxation and hefty house lot fees while the business buddies acquire hundreds of acres of state lands at cheap ?pepper corn? prices.? This practice of ignoring the plight of the poor will stop in an AFC Government.? Fairness in actions shall return to the land under the AFC.
As our Party Leader Raphael Trotman said ?It must be a moment of great change so that Guyana can emerge from underdevelopment, nepotism and pettiness of past Governments. For 45 years Guyana has had the same parties making turns in the wrong directions, disappointing and betraying its citizens and allowing for an unfair distribution of the country?s wealth as the rich get richer while most Guyanese continue to re?main poor.?
Many have told us they wish they can come to our public meeting, it reminds them of 1979 and Walter Rodney but according to them ?we ?fraid of victimization?.
We say to the people, if you are afraid, you do not have to come to our public meetings, we are okay with that, once you continue to read our KEY newspaper in print or on our website, and on elections day you make the right turn and vote for the KEY.
Change is on its way and we encourage all to sit, think and decide ? it is either more of the same or a new life.
Sasenarine Singh

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