I AM troubled by the thought that my country faces the likelihood of a doomsday future. We are on the brink of catastrophic proportions and we have, with some urgency, to seriously review what is taking place before our very eyes.

Our collective apparent equanimity, which we have been enjoying over the past twenty years, is being threatened by some over-ambitious aspiring political leaders; who have shown little regard for the damage being done to the entire country by their irresponsibility.
They have used their one-seat parliamentary majority to wield offensively against the many progressive measures intended to improve tremendously the welfare of the people and the preparation of the country becoming a truly modern state.
The Government envisaged better healthcare through a specialty hospital, cheaper or less expensive energy with the development of hydropower, enhancing tourism infrastructure vide five-star hotels and improved airport facilities. In addition, the Opposition adamantly refuses to support the internationally accepted proposed bill to fight money laundering and also combat terrorism and have also deprived the Amerindian communities’ programmes regarding development and, most appalling, calling for the closure of the sugar industry.
These are some of the far-reaching absurdities which the Opposition political parties are embarked upon, using the one-seat majority for selfish aggrandisement and a false sense of bravado, never attempting to embrace sensible progressive measures, which they have the clear option to propose and to correctly claim credit.
Where or what are they assisting in making the country a better place? Are they not being handsomely paid as Members of Parliament to serve the people who elected them into power?
What will their report card look like, come new elections?
But all this contributes to the belief that my country is on the brink of disaster, which is fuelled by a press and media that harbour an intense hatred for the Government party, which simply and openly sustain the relevancy of the obnoxious questionable agenda of the political Opposition.
Will better sense prevail in the event if new national elections are called?

(By David DeGroot)