AS IN any country, the opposition in Guyana loves only bad news. If a fire breaks out, you can be sure that you will get a ‘breaking news’ alert on your blackberry. If, however, a multi-million dollars financial package is announced, say for Linden, only silence will prevail. For the opposition press it is – “darn it; more good news again”.

Well boys, I have some good news for Guyana (which in your books is bad news). Here is some news that the opposition elements only grudgingly want you to know about.

Firstly, the Marriott Hotel will be built. The one hundred and sixty room structure will bring a major international brand to Guyana. Marriott has its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C. The construction phase of the project will create hundred of well paying jobs. Once completed, the hotel will provide more than a hundred jobs for Guyanese, the same jobs that many Guyanese overseas are doing.

Secondly, Guyana will receive the first disbursement of the LCDS funds from Norway later this year. The news was announced soon after President Jagdeo met with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in New York. Both state leaders were attending a high level meeting on climate change finance hosted by U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-moon.

Thirdly, during the president’s visit to China it was announced that financing for the Amaila Falls Hydro project has been secured. Whilst in Shanghai, it was announced that China Development Bank and China Railway First Group will participate in the financing of the multi-million dollar clean energy project. The hydro project will almost eliminate Guyana’s dependency on foreign (hydro-carbon) energy with significant consequences for the economic development of the country.

Developments such as these have far reaching consequences for the well being of all Guyanese. Yet, that is not good enough for the opposition. What’s good for Guyana is bad for them.

Only yesterday, for instance, the WPA – which is made up of no more than about a dozen persons – most from Georgetown or from overseas, called for all opposition forces to come together. The call was not for Guyanese to support the achievements noted above, but to engage in other activities to help remove the PPP government at the next election.

I will ‘bet’ David Hinds and Dennis Wiggins (a long distance calling card) that the WPA won’t win more than 200 votes at the next election. Sorry guys, overseas ballots don’t count.

You will never hear a Dennis Wiggins or Sasenarine Singh say anything good, even when the achievements are irrefutable. Was it not guys like these two who were betting that these projects won’t get off the ground? Wiggins is an expert at calling for confrontation and for infusing race into everything. Sasenarine Singh is ambitious and is perhaps trying to out do Tarron Khemraj. Only time will tell which of the two will win the AFC contest.

Tomorrow the Prime Minister of Kuwait will be in Guyana. I hope the Guyanese people take the opportunity to learn about this interesting and successful country.