The accusations that the government is only providing services to communities because this is part of the election campaign of the PPP is so fallacious that it should be ignored; except that these allegations have serious implications.
The entire history and structure of the PPP are based on people’s welfare and development – across the board.  The PPP, upon assumption of office in 1992 inherited such destruction and devastation in the land that few persons thought Guyana was salvageable.
Today, those who destroyed this country pre-1992 are so covetous of this transformed country of plenty and promise that they are tenacious in their attempts to acquire its assets to plunder once more; and their strategies to achieve high office hallmark their desperation.
However, attempting to halt or hinder development projects that are enriching and empowering the Guyanese people in efforts to advance self-serving agendas is outlining the silhouette of the hidden characteristics of self-appointed leaders who fight for funding and fulminate about shared governance in the same breath.
The actions of the President last Christmas encapsulate the spirit with which the PPP/C has been governing this country and the Guyanese people, whose welfare the administration places paramount to any other consideration.  It was a time when the President spread cheer across the land as the Joint Services enjoyed his largesse, with other programmes initiated to make Guyanese individually and collectively across the land happy.  The residents of Buxton are finally having their Tipperary Hall restored, gifts had been provided to the children on the East Coast and elsewhere, especially the young people at the New Opportunity Corps, for whom he not only provided gifts, but hope for a brighter future and the assurance that they have identities and personalities of their own within the national construct and framework of development.
Telling the children that they should not feel stigmatized because their current circumstances are not theirs, but the failure of the adults of their world, and  that their extant situation is merely “the short part of a long journey” must surely have lifted a burden from the souls of those children and have provided hope that the New Opportunity Corps is really the embryo of what its name suggests – new opportunities for the formerly abandoned and hopeless children of the Guyanese society.
However, most poignant was the President’s one-off 5% retroactive payout to sugar workers – a governmental Xmas package totalling $720 million, which he promised could become permanent out of the box of union-negotiated wages and benefits packages if sugar production increases in 2011.
The EU’s 36 percent price cut has been the death blow to the sugar industry in many neighbouring CARICOM nations; but this Government has refused to abandon sugar workers and the thousands who depend – either directly or indirectly- on sugar production for their livelihoods, despite the fact that the EU’s price cuts, which are in keeping with rulings of the World Trade Organisation, is costing GuySuCo $9 billion in lost revenue annually.
However, in its glory days the sugar industry had sustained other sectors in the nation, especially through the sugar levy, which has contributed in excess of $34 billion to the national exchequer during its period of existence, quite apart from many more billions in corporate and individual PAYE taxes; so the Government’s unrelenting efforts to sustain the viability of the sugar industry, which have been consistently flayed by detractors, as well as the huge subsidies invested to bolster and keep afloat the bauxite industry so that Guyanese employed in these industries do not end up in the breadline, is another yardstick by which to measure the Government’s commitment to progress and prosperity in the nation.
Taking into consideration all the factors, especially the human factor, the President ensured that workers countrywide would have something to lift their spirits during the Christmas season, which is a continuum of caring by the PPP/C administration.      Dr. Cheddi Jagan has always stressed that development must always have a human face.
When President Bharrat Jagdeo demits office next year, it is imperative that he continues to serve this nation in a major capacity, because, while he does not possess the Jagan biological genes, the caring and compassion he has consistently demonstrated for all the people of the land is a celebration of the spirit of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, and a continuum of the legacy of the great, good Father of the Nation, which no doubt will be perpetuated by Donald Ramotar, a hardcore Jaganite, who certainly will not divert from the framework of development with a human face that is the mantra of the PPP.