I think it is time Guyanese stand up against political trouble makers. Certain politicians and other leaders are responsible for the perceived racial divide within our society. This is why these political parties will continue to fail and will even experience more failure to combine their efforts to promote good policies that reflect their own interests.

These politicians deliberately focus and play up the few differences of our people, and refer to us as different species fighting for our lives in the battlefield. The reality is not so, we are all Guyanese who share more commonalities than differences, and we must use this to our advantage to combat the challenges faced by the changes in the global economy.

A political party’s main function is to gain and maintain electoral success and strengthen existing partisan loyalties while attracting new supporters; some parties will pursue these goals at any means, even if at the cost of sacrificing its own people and country.

The racial tension that was originally created in the past by our colonial masters to control the people is now being adapted and promoted by political scalawags to attract support for their failing parties. Many of these parties often employ this racial tension as a tactic in their campaigns to manipulate supporters, then engineering unnecessary conflict.

These political parties and leaders know themselves, and I want to call on them to reflect upon themselves and identify all the positive things they have done to induce positive changes for Guyana.

Guyana is facing bigger problems such as the challenges of the global economic crises and has no room for petty politics, perhaps these political parties should try working hand in hand to induce and invoke positive changes for Guyana. We must continue to expose and reject the ugly characters of these political parties and their so-called leaders within our society.
ELIZABETH DALY