I am pretty sure I know what a most “famous” columnist who writes for another newspaper would say in year end issue of his column. “Guyana is a failed state because of the little dictators that have reigned in the last 18 years. And Guyanese are at the mercy of these (PPP) dictators because of their Machiavellian manipulation. It is so unfortunate that the Guyanese diaspora does not have any spine or gumption in registering their disgust of this most inept government in the world; they fail to notice the total darkness that is in Guyana.

The opposition stakeholders have gone in to a comatose, and allowed the PPP Government and the Jagdeo presidency to do whatever it chose to with the resources of the country, and now the degeneracy is beyond imagination.

The merciless little dictators are on a path carved out for a selected band of nouveau riche – in establishing the soon-to-be Pradoville 3 and 4.

The country is heading deeper and deeper into an abyss.  There is no hope for Guyana and Guyanese because, in short, Guyana is jinxed!”

Mr. Editor, the famous columnist needs to come up with some new terms and expressions. His lines and verbiage have become too worn out – too ramshackled, too bourgeoisie. In other words, ‘he sounds too stale”.

I beg to differ with the “famous” columnist’s year end views.  There is freedom of views in Guyana; opposition parties and columnists could do pretty much what they want to do or say in the land, (to a point, of course).  Anyone is free to become a ‘nouveau riche’ in Guyana, with the right attitude and enterprise; (I saw a picture of a mighty nice house of a columnist in the newspaper a few weeks ago – perched near the Caricom Secretariat!)

Guyana is not headed into an abyss, and Guyana is not jinxed. More and more people are being better off in the country. While more people are seeking to flee the shores of the land, more and more Guyanese are making the trek back to the land of their birth. And – yea(!), Guyana was the West Indies Champions League Twenty20-20 Squad in 2010!

With a better attitude, a positive mind-set, diligence in working towards a just society, and with faith, hope and love, Guyana could once again become the envy of the West Indies!