Happy New Year!
To every home, family and community across the far-flung regions of our country..
New Year Greetings are also extended to all Guyanese in the Diaspora, whether in North America, Europe or wider afield. Modern communication and internet technology have indeed brought us closer together, despite the miles that physically separate us.

The holiday season provided a welcome respite from the rigorous challenges that we all faced in the past year, but we must now be prepared to overcome them in the New Year, 2010: One that I would like to name, “The Year of Opportunity”.

The Opportunity to correct the many ills facing our beloved country; Opportunity to remove many of the fundamental obstacles that have halted the development of our country and ourselves; and Opportunity to place Guyana on the path to national harmony and real progress.

On this the first day of the New Year, it is my hope that all of us will realize a measure of prosperity in our personal lives and that each of us, wherever we may be, will endeavour to make some contribution, however small, to the development of our country.

I wish the Commissioner of Police and the Chief of Staff a Happy New Year. May they seize the opportunity to make us proud of our security forces in 2010, including:

? Reduction of Crime and road accidents;

? The cessation of torture and other malpractices and unprofessional conduct in their ranks.

I wish the leadership and members of the PPP, as well as all other political parties in Guyana a productive New Year. May we take the opportunity to seriously discuss and implement a system of Governance that would remove the present alienation and release the energies of our people.

Happy New Year to the Private Sector. May you succeed in your efforts to contribute to Guyana’s prosperity.

Happy New year to all Guyanese. May we seize the opportunity to work together as a united people:-

My wish, the wish of the People’s National Congress Reform, is that 2010 ushers in a new resolve to take Guyana forward. This, fellow Guyanese, can only be achieved if our leaders, the Jagdeo Administration, the Opposition Parties, the private sector, indeed, all stakeholders and our people alike, demonstrate a genuine and tangible commitment to this objective.

Happy New Year and May God bless our country. May we seize the opportunities in 2010 to make us proud of our beloved nation, Guyana.