I CRY for Guyana. And it seems I weep alone. So many things are happening around us and no one seems to care. We find correspondents seeking to destroy the lives of citizens with whose beliefs they do not agree. So they are ridiculed and called all sorts of names. But the correspondents themselves have no religious or cultural traits and like animals utter all manner of abuse to poor unsuspecting Guyanese. 

Let us take the Voters List for example. The PPP are complaining of all manner of irregularities they discovered. The Opposition and their press are silent on the issue or they seek to mock. They can at least invite GECOM to ensure a proper list. Do we need a return to the days when the Chief Elections Officer was a toothless poodle, and the lists then could not stand the test of time. Do we forget when elections were due in 1990 and it was found among the errors in the list that the President’s name (Desmond Hoyte) was not listed. What happened? Elections were postponed for two years getting the list straightened out. Now, no one cares, it seems.
There is talk of trust. Do we forget in 1994 after the Georgetown Municipal Elections when Green’s party got the most votes? It was agreed that the Mayoral position will be shared annually between the PNC, GGG and the PPP. The PNC and GGG got theirs and when it came to the PPP’s turn, Hamilton Green rebelled and has been squatting in the position since then. No one seems to care.
There is talk by Green as to which police officer intervened in the Sooba’s matter when the door of her office was forced open. He should hang his head in shame. Who intervened when Dr Joshua Ramsammy was shot outside the Co-op Bank? Who intervened when Vincent Teekah was murdered allegedly in a dentist’s chair one night? And who was responsible for, and who intervened when Rose Ann Barrow was shot to death in Green’s offices in Homestretch Avenue, when she was selling milk and other stuff to feed her infant children. Is Green still getting the hundred thousand dollars for fuelling his car?
What about the bandits who entered the man’s home on the Corentyne and robbed it, and then raped the man’s wife and three minor children, aged 14, 15 and 17? Have we heard the women’s group who speak up for those who sell their bodies? What about the Human Rights body – will they come to life if the criminals are caught and properly dealt with? Is this a return to the Lusignan Massacre? Daily robberies of millions of dollars occur in bright daylight and no one can be identified. Are they centrally directed to attack when and where the coast is clear?
Two correspondents who were in the bosom of the PPP are now crying shame on the party after they were booted out. They were enjoying all the benefits of officialdom, including duty free concessions for members of their ‘families.’ Have they made restitution for all the ill-gotten gains they reaped whilst in that bosom? Have they now discovered the ‘error’ of their ways?
What about our ‘independent’ press. The news reporters are injecting their personal views into any story which puts the government in a good light. How can society tolerate a newspaper which claims massive support referring to a person as ‘cow shit’ and no one has said anything? Is that what we have come to?
Poor Guyana – my heart bleeds for you, dear land.

MOHAMED SULTAN