The focus on the PPP’s presidential candidate has been engaging the nation for a while, and everyone has an opinion on the candidates nominated for the position.
From the inception of the Jagans’ long, hard fight for justice and equality in the nation, the political construct they had formed into the PPP with all their supporters has waged a relentless struggle to first win independence for Guyana and, subsequently, to wrest democracy from the monstrous jaws of the neo-Nazis who had imposed a draconian rule over the hapless and helpless Guyanese nation after having created divisions in the people, which still mercilessly plague this country.
The players and faces change but the strategies never do.  However, the current government has demonstrated its caring for the Guyanese people over and beyond any borders, with dynamic and transformational changes in the developmental landscape of the nation.
At the opening ceremony of the Ministry of Housing’s International Building Exposition in August of 2010, young Housing Minister Irfaan Alli had poignantly asked: “…why do we always burden ourselves with negativity instead of celebrating what we have accomplished as a people?” Indeed, why?
The private sector has thrown its weight solidly behind the developmental initiatives of the government because they realise that only by taking a holistic approach will Guyana’s economy expand and the developmental processes continue its upward mobility, which will ultimately redound to the benefit of everyone in the country.  But this development has to continue its momentum, and this leads to the conjecture of whether the next president will have the capacity to sustain this trajectory of growth so ably piloted by Dr. Jagan and President Bharrat Jagdeo, because every ship needs a capable and committed pilot or it runs aground.  Our own history has taught us that, and we certainly do not want to return to the days when every aspect of life in this country had hit rock-bottom before this administration took hold of the wheel.
The caring natures of the PPP presidents have transcended the borders into creating and charting policies that could benefit the world, because the PPP has always reached out a hand in friendship to countries all across the globe on the premise that the world is one global village with the inhabitants needing to look out for each other.
Dr. Cheddi Jagan had espoused this concept long ago and propagated the mechanism for this construct to be a global strategy for human development in his New Human Global Order, which has been adopted by the United Nations and is even now taking centre stage at various international fora.  This vision is our Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s gift to the world.
Each country is a microcosm of the wider world, with leadership portfolios in various spheres, and in a contextual way Guyana is representative of the struggle for survival and identity of every country in the world, even the great USA, the history of which is well-documented.  Many atrocities are committed by leaders on their own peoples, causing much socio-economic dislocations and infrastructural devastation, and Guyanese still, to some extent, are affected by their past.
But slowly there has been an emergence of reconciliation and the knowledge that we are not enemies following divergent paths, because our goals are the same, and this is demonstrated every day as Guyanese from every community and every walk of life come to the realisation that opposing their personal development for the glorification, aggrandizement, and enrichment of pseudo leaders cannot build a peaceful and prosperous country for their children to inherit.
They are also recognising that the PPP/C government has their welfare at heart, because formerly impoverished families now, as the President has remarked, have achieved dignity because they own things, especially their own homes, which gives them a stake in their own country and a sense of belonging and security that they never had before.
And they have done all these things as a team, working in the spirit of their founding father, the iconic Dr. Cheddi Jagan.
It stands to reason, therefore, that the final choice of the party for its candidate to lead them into the next general elections would not derail this impetus of development, but would continue to build on the momentum already created, initially by Dr. Cheddi Jagan, then by successive PPP presidents.