THE troubling indications that the youths of the nation are being encouraged to pursue criminality rather than education in efforts to enhance their lives by certain Opposition leaders is once again surfacing, with the upsurge of criminal activities involving youths in certain communities that predominantly support Opposition political parties.

According to the American ambassador, Brent Hardt, the third LEAD component seeks to motivate and better equip Guyanese youth to constructively engage in political and civic processes. He said “We are developing a series of programmes and activities aimed at increasing youth interest in politics and civic affairs, while also building leadership skills among youth. These include youth debate clubs and youth civic education gatherings.” The only problem is that only the Opposition leaders and their youthful supporters are beneficiaries of these programmes; and one knows all too well the direction that leadership takes in Guyana’s socio-political dynamics.
As one letter-writer pointed out, Louis Farakhan’s deputy, Akbar Mohamed came to Guyana and was holed up in a hotel room, unknown to security, and when caught and confronted said he came to Guyana to talk to the youths of Guyana. He was proven to have strong links with the PNC leadership, and had been engaging youths in Buxton and Linden.
And here, one needs to remember PNC Parliamentarian, Abdul Kadir, who is now languishing in a US jail for engaging in plots of terroristic programmes. He, like the recently killed bandit from Agricola, also loved to pose with guns, the linkages with the Buxton Resistance movement and the Agricola and other criminal gangs; as well as hailing as hero a deadly rapist, thief and murderer, Linden (Blackie) Jones and draping his body with Guyana’s national standard.
As the letter-writer asked: “How many Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, or Amerindian youths are there in Buxton for him to talk to? Like all those American missionaries coming and going into Guyana unknown to security forces, until Government asks what they are here for.”
He pointed out that that was the only time Guyanese were told that those American ‘missionaries’ have been brought here to help supporters of a certain opposition political party, and that ever since the colonisers left Guyana and installed PNC leaders to power and they ruled for twenty-eight years, with all the foreign help and foreign helpers, their supporters cannot uplift themselves and get up on their own.” Because they do not encourage them to use the educational path, but the criminal path to empowerment, with the inculcation of a psyche of entitlement.
Judging by their actions, the international community is again supporting the PNC and affiliates, and does not care that they would take Guyana once more down a retrograde path by supporting the PNC, with its historical linkages to criminal elements and destructive, even murderous (Walter Rodney and the revelations of his assassinations being a case in point) patterns of behaviour in Guyana’s socio-political arena.
The foreign superpowers know that installing their PNC puppets to (mis)rule this country once again can destroy – not can, but will once more destroy this nation, because their track record is a continuum of destructive, unpatriotic actions and rhetoric.
And violence. The young children being trained and indoctrinated into criminality and violence to support the evil agenda of opposition elements have no future; but because of their ill-gotten wealth, their families, friends and neighbours support and condone their murderous forays to acquire wealth they have not earned.
One needs to take cognisance of the affiliation of key officials of a certain Bank to an Opposition political party and the way, as soon as someone withdraws a sizeable amount of money; they are targeted by criminals, one of whom was gunned down in the act.
The question needs to be asked: How these young criminals know to target someone who had just made a large cash withdrawal and not someone who merely draws a paltry sum.
That Bank needs to be boycotted by business persons and everyone who values their money and their lives.