MARK Archer’s primary “schoolish” castigation (July 4, 2011, KN “Let’s send the PPP and its hollow promises a message”), of the PPP/C is most risible and ludicrous. He took space, time and effort but has not made a significant point. One gets the impression that Mark Archer is disgruntled, and therefore on an anti-PPP/C propagandizing mission. It has to be that Mark Archer is blind or a complete liar. It is hoped that this response will ‘move’ him.
First, let it be emphatically known that under the PPP/C there has been immense infrastructural development, public security, and improvements in education, better electricity and potable water supply, and jobs for the unemployed.
Just take a simple village like Annandale or Buxton and take a visit. One will see that intra/inter village travel is very commodious.
Also, on the East Coast of Demerara, power shortage may be more frequent, but of very short duration and the total accumulated number of hours is fewer than what had obtained.
It is redundant here to comment on the strides made in the Educational Sector. Currently, there is the physical rehabilitation of many school buildings, more teachers are being trained, the University of Guyana’s shifting of classes to accommodate teachers, and the merging of programmes (UG and Cyril Potter). If one thinks that the latter is a mean feat, just take a visit to UG and see how many foreign students are being matriculated on a yearly basis. And one is here talking about students from Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago (These three countries have their various campuses of UWI).
The second fact that Mark Archer must confront and absorb is that of economics. He comes over as naпve and simplistic. One can do the search and answer for himself, which is the most indebted country in the world. For enlightenment here are some statistics:
1. United States – $13,450,000,000,000
2. United Kingdom – $9,088,000,000,000
3. Germany – $5,208,000,000,000
4. France – $5,021,000,000,000
5. Netherlands – $3,733,000,000,000
6. Spain – $2,410,000,000,000
7. Italy – $2,328,000,000,000
8. Ireland – $2,287,000,000,000
9. Japan – $2,132,000,000,000
10. Belgium – $1,354,000,000,000.
Mark Archer must also be reminded that Guyana was plunged into an almost irreparable and irrecoverable economic state by 1992. So the PPP/C has been more than delivering. One can also do a comparison (say of Guyana and the USA) on the various GDPs and a percentile count on unemployment figures.
One can posit then, that based on ‘Markian’ or ‘Archerian’ thinking that the USA is in the abyss.
Maybe he should send his childish letter to Mr. Barack Obama.  
Again for reasons of enlightenment, here is a summary (very brief one too) of some of the major accomplishments of the PPP.
1. Revamping the Educational Sector.
2. Road building across Guyana.
3. The Berbice River Bridge.
4. Resuscitating the Economy.
5. Reduction of Foreign Debt.
6. Allocation of House Lots.
7. Amelioration of the (poor) living conditions of the Amerindians.
8. Placing Guyana on the international stage, so that funds for forest preservation are being accrued.