One can recall the Lilliputian Guyana standing in defiance of the might of the powerful European Union on the issue of the EPA. Then President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, stood resolutely like a lone David facing a gigantic Goliath, refusing to allow our country and the rest of the CARICOM nation states to bend their knees and become colonised nations once again through their Draconian EPA.He was reviled, he was mocked at, he was demonised, he was condemned, he was threatened with dire sanctions – by the unpatriotic forces in Guyana, and even by a few CARICOM heads whose countries stood to benefit more than Guyana from his stance; but he stood his ground and refused to yield sovereignty of our country – and consequently the entire CARICOM bloc, to overlords; and the mighty European nations saluted his courage and resilient leadership by graciously granting the concessions by which he sought to protect his country.

Even when the sugar protocol was ended, the EU still tried to minimise in various ways the full impact to Guyana, and they have been a consistent development partner in this nation’s climb out of poverty.
Guyana’s combined Opposition is (in)famous for its politics of blackmail, holding the nation to ransom, demanding more and more power – and by this time everyone is aware that their foremost aim; indeed, their only aim is to gain entrance, even if through the back door, to the sanctum sanctorum itself.
Guyana’s private sector is equally self-serving: They are insisting the Government give in to Opposition’s every irrational demand because they are driven by profit-motivation and a fear of a vengeful Opposition and their media allies, legendary for their ‘fatwas’ against companies, against which they call boycotts and send hoodlums to loot and burn during street ‘protests’, which in effect is always rampant hooliganism, the rewards to their supporters being loot they would never acquire through legal means by working hard and making sacrifices.

They have turned a blind eye to the Opposition’s irrational, intractable, implacable, anti-national positions, even when they reject Private Sector’s request to be heard at national decision-making fora.
But Guyanese are saying to the Government that they need to look after the people’s interests, because the demands of the Opposition will never stop until they are sitting in Cabinet (what a nightmare that would be) and they insist that Government refuse to compromise the welfare of the nation any further by conceding to the Opposition’s blackmailing tactics. The CFATF representative made it clear what he thought about Opposition’s demands. The entire international community has recognised the vengeful, self-serving lack of patriotism in Guyana’s collective political Opposition; and the nation is saying to the Government to stand firm, like Dr. Bharat Jagdeo, and put the general good of the nation first.
The international community, through debt reductions, debt relief, grants and other concessions, have proven themselves more caring of the nation’s interests than Guyana’s collective Opposition.
And Guyanese prefer to throw themselves at the mercy of the international community rather than to submit their rights to an irresponsible, unpatriotic Opposition combo.