THE distribution of the promised $10,000 annual grant to the nation’s schoolchildren is one more promise kept by the PPP/C administration to the people of Guyana. 

One of the key planks of Government is the enhancement of the education sector; and this has been a sustained and innovative work in progress, but the achievements so far in this sector needs volumes to chronicle, and will not be attempted herein.
President Donald Ramotar had promised that his administration would build on the foundation laid by previous PPP/C Governments, in accordance with that Party’s stated objectives in its respective Manifestos, unashamedly copied by the Opposition parties, which created a sustained economic growth in the Guyanese economy.
Successive PPP/C administration Budgets have no doubt contextually been placed within that framework, where the PPP/C has unrelentingly striven for the continuation of the sound macroeconomic fundamentals that have driven the nation on an upward trajectory of economic growth and social development, in accordance with the President’s promises of continuity in the country’s development paradigm, where modern Guyana was brilliantly engineered under the supremely astute guidance of former President, Bharrat Jagdeo.
President Ramotar is intent on building on extant development facilitators in Guyana, as well as exploring and traversing innovative and creative pathways that would channel the nation’s developmental road map to optimise the country’s growth dynamics; and he is quite prepared, even while continuously pursuing consensual positions, to forge ahead with his administration’s commitment to national development imperatives.
The diligence, perseverance, prudent fiscal configurations — and one could even say conjurations — to restore Guyana to a solvent status from where it once was graphed on the lowest ratings on international growth indices is a record-breaking performance of any Government, especially when placed within a framework of constant anti-democratic, anti-national theatrics by an unpatriotic and destructive Opposition cabal, which often try to drive this country back to the brink in their quest for power, primarily through their promotion of criminal activities, their “slo’ fiah; mo’ fiah manoeuvres, their “Buxton resistance,” their continuous demonising and witch-hunting of PPP/C Government functionaries at national and international fora, which is in direct contrast to the politics of the PPP/C, which always acts in the national interest and continuously attempts to unify the nation, preferring instead to truncate its term of office at various times rather than see this nation divided unto itself.
That the Government’s programmes benefit its own supporters, and embrace every community in Guyana is moot to a muscle-flexing Opposition collective, which havebeen grand-standing in serious diversionary strategies meant to derail Government’s work.
They view the victims of derailed governmental initiatives as mere, in their own words, “collateral damage” in their quest for power through the back door of the Office of the President.
However, budget cuts, non-support for the AML/CFT Bill, derailment of transformative projects, et al, have not diverted Government from fulfilling its Manifesto promises to the Guyanese nation of charting the peoples’ future on better roadways, literally and figuratively; and facilitating the educational pursuits of the nation’s children is a primary objective of the PPP/C administration.