READING Bros. Hydar Ally and Lal Balkaran’s letters should be a must for all who suffered, including others of sound mind, to never forget the historical facts: 28 years of thuggery, fraudulent and rigged elections; the murder of Father Bernard Darke, Vincent Teekah and Dr. Walter Rodney; the 1973 Elections Killings in Berbice of Parmanand & Ramessar etc under the most notorious regime in the Caribbean. This scourge was removed from government not only by free and fair elections but with The One God answering the tears and cries for help by the Guyanese masses. The sufferings is not a made up of stories like the Spanish, and British invaders calling the natives of the Americas SAVAGES, and raping the women and killing the men.

Anyone who thinks that a change of government will bring betterment under the new PNC & AFC needs a crash course in the history of Guyana 1964-1992; they are either mad, in a stupor, or bribed to say such nonsense.
Let’s take a truthful analysis of the development in Guyana from 1992 to 2015. As far as one’s eyes can see, the transformation is in all sectors of the economy — Education, Health, Transportation, Agriculture, Housing, Banking, Tourism and access to a variety of foodstuffs – no banning of essential commodities.
The PPP/C in government is the first National Party in this hemisphere to recognise that the Natives Rights to their Land Claims must be respected and acknowledged with Titles. Further, I want to share with all readers that I was denied to continue my studies at GTI by the PNC-controlled University of Guyana because I was a Polling Agent for the PPP at the 1973 Elections. My first time to vote in Guyana in 1973 was a nightmare; I was denied to vote because they said I voted already; and the next thing I knew was that a GDF soldier pushed his sub-machine gun in my rib cage and demanded I leave or I will be sorry. My co-polling agent said, ‘Your life is more valuable than one vote.’
On returning to my Polling Station, the GDF soldiers grabbed all the boxes and denied us travelling with the ballot boxes. I resigned after gaining employment with the GuySuCo Port Mourant Aprentice Training Centre. This institution where I was trained, I am thankful to the Admin. Manager of Albion Estate for allowing me to continue my studies at NATI in New Amsterdam.
I continued working with the PPP and my locality to further the struggles for residents of the Port Mourant-Tain area for better services by the Local Authority. I was elected a Regional Member of the PPP (Port Mourant-New Amsterdam) and planned to raise my young family of four kids in this locality. I was renting a house from someone living abroad. The hardships of obtaining foodstuff and the high rent left me one month behind in expenses. House lots were available for GuySuCo workers in Tain South and Harold Singh, the Chairman, bluntly refused my application without an explanation.
There was a house for sale in Tain for $5000.00, and I was refused by the NBS, which asked me if I have any money. These repressive, undemocratic and inhumane actions by the PNC forced me to migrate to Canada in 1978.
From 2005 to 2015, I have visited Guyana 22 times, and the transformation of Guyana towards a standard of living equivalent to the west is seen and felt wherever one travels in Guyana. The only party that delivers positive improvement and services is the PPP/C.
Don’t allow anyone to fool you to vote for APNU/AFC. Let me give you a simple example: Many so-called Arab leaders were duped into believing that they will have better lives if Saddam, Gadaffi, Ben Ali were removed. You can read everywhere that the Arabs are worse off today; these countries were destroyed by the coalition-led forces. Iraq was model for the middle east, their health care, transportation, education, employment, housing, Electricity, security are absent for the masses.
The proverb” a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. It’s better to have a certain advantage than the possibility of a greater one that may come to nothing.
11th May General and Regional Elections is in your hands my fellow Guyanese brothers and sisters and make the Wise Decision – VOTE PPP/C
I humbly call on all Guyanese to use their eyes, their hearts not emotions and give the PPP/C a solid majority in the 11th May 2015 General and Regional Elections.

SAFDAR ALLY