GUYANA is at a crossroad, with one road having the potential to add to the gains being enjoyed by Guyanese in the post-elections 1992 period, and the other hell-bent on leading this nation backwards into the days of the PNC administration, with Carl Greenidge once more in charge of this country’s economy.

The PNC tsunami flattened this country and crushed the soul of this nation like a relentless juggernaut until it was rescued by the collective efforts of some brave souls, working in collaboration with the PPP/C under the leadership of the indomitable Dr. Cheddi Jagan, when our nation was restored to democracy and a progressive trajectory once more.

But Dr. Jagan’s PPP has always been betrayed by those it has espoused and empowered, to the detriment of the nation.  Guyana is once more being held to ransom by the destructive and self-serving opposition collective and their satellite enclaves. There are now the betrayers of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, such as Ramjattan and Nagamootoo and their cabal of ex-PPP supporters, who are pursuing their own agendas and vendettas and striving with everything they have to once more deliver this country and people into the hands of the PNC.

In fact, they are bent on delivering this country into the hands of Corbin, Grainger and Greenidge, even though they know full well the consequences of their actions.

Ramjattan and Nagamootoo have forgotten the fate of Peter D’Aguiar; but the latter was driven by conviction, while the former are propelled by ambition that has made them myopic and blind to the realities of what they are leading this country into.

History has judged Peter D’Aguiar and will no doubt similarly judge this infamous duo, but by then it may be too late for this country, because there will never again be a Dr. Cheddi Jagan to lead such a heroic fight to rid this nation of the oppression and suffering that the Guyanese people have endured in the past over the long, relentless, painful years of PNC mismanagement, dictatorship and destructive practices.

Donald Ramotar, brave patriot that he is, has already been in one long, arduous fight, along with all his comrades under the leadership of Dr. Jagan, to restore this country to democratic status.  It is unlikely that he will be willing to engage in such another epic battle after the Guyanese people have themselves uncaringly once again delivered their patrimony into the hands of the people who once raped and pillaged their homeland, and subverted all their most basic and essential rights.

But if the Guyanese people want to vest the future of their children into the hands of the PNC elitists, whom they apparently love more than their own offspring, enough to trust them with the welfare of this nation, despite their depredations of the past, then they have only themselves to blame when their lives come crashing apart and they once more become destitute and perceived as beggars and cheats on the international landscape.

Greenidge as President? Corbin as President? Greenidge as Finance Minister? Really? Do Guyanese really want to return to those days of this country’s dark past?

If so, then we have been so psychologically battered that we have fallen in love with our abusers and have become masochists and true victims – not of the oppressors but of the prison within our own minds.

It has become evident by now that supporting the AFC is supporting the PNC.  Raphael Trotman is right back where he belongs, in the heart of the PNC; but while Ramjattan and Nagamootoo are now sleeping with the enemy, they have to be content with the crumbs thrown to them by their PNC massas – a la D’Aguiar.

Nagamootoo was promised “a high place” and Ramjattan was promised the leadership position in a rotation, which never fructified.  He was instead made presidential candidate of that fledgling party, which everyone knew was a kick in the posterior for him, because there is no way that the AFC would ever win enough seats for its candidate to become President, so Trotman has been the leader until now, and he calls all the shots.

Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo had once called Ramjattan a “water boy”, because he saw him as a political stooge for the opposition collective, with the PNC being the main partners.

However, these disgruntled politicians could once more enable the PNC to take Guyana down a retrograde path. Is this the future Guyanese want for their children?