The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) extends greetings to all Guyanese as we celebrate the significant Republic Anniversary in the life of our nation – this body of land with many rivers, valleys, lakes, mountains, forest and savannahs called the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. Today,  23rd February 2010, we have accomplished forty years of Republican status consolidating our political independence and forging a future from the foundations that our Leaders crafted.
As with any milestone, some reflection on especially signal moments in the life of our nation is critical to experiencing a celebratory mood and spirit on this Republic Day. When we ushered in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana in 1970, the mood and spirit of the nation was high in esteem experiencing great favor and fervent hope as the PNC led the nation to charting its own destiny.
In the first decade of these forty years, we saw a people driven by hope, love of country and charting a developmental scale of unknown proportions in our country. For example, there is the Georgetown Linden Highway that was carved out from among forest, hills and creeks, a Demerara Harbour Bridge and a Canje Bridge that came from a vision to link a people, goods and services and mesh four major productive Regions for easy ingress and egress to the Capital; to ensure the education of the populace Multilateral Schools, Community High Schools, a Campus for the University of Guyana, a Campus for the New Amsterdam Technical Institute were accessible. Free education was introduced from nursery to university for every Guyanese, a new and relevant curriculum for schools was formulated, and a beautiful cultural centre was constructed; to provide health care, new Regional Hospitals and Clinics were constructed and staffed throughout the nation. Industrial Estates were commissioned; electricity supply and water were expanded to communities unknown. Iwokrama, 1430 square miles of Guyana, known as one of the four last pristine tropical forests in the world, was offered to the world for research and development by the wisdom of PNC leadership charting our future.