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, including patriots in the Diaspora, 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 among the people. These divisions still mercilessly plague this country; notwithstanding the equitable governance of the PPP/C  inexorably eradicating this destructive anomaly in Guyana’s plural society, whereby the average Guyanese citizen is eschewing the politics of race for a better presence for themselves and their families, and an enhanced future for their children and posterity.
Over the decades the players and faces have changed, but the strategies never do.  However, the Jagdeo-led government 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 has led to the conjecture of whether President Donald Ramotar will have the capacity to sustain this trajectory of growth so ably piloted by former presidents Drs. Cheddi Jagan and 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.
But the nation need have no fear, because President Ramotar, both through his elections campaign – which was based on continuity, and his actions and utterances thus far maintains that the continuum of national development will not abate but, because of the groundwork laid by former PPP/C presidents, will instead accelerate as all PPP/C’s developmental programmes are based on its Manifesto, from which other parties borrowed material for their own manifestos.

CARING BEYOND GUYANA’S BORDERS
The caring of the PPP presidents have transcended the national 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  Global Human Order, which has been adopted by the United Nations and is even now taking centre stage at various international fora.  This vision is Dr. 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 as one of struggles and overcoming hurdles.
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 our past.

COMMON GOALS
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 former President Jagdeo 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.
But then Guyana’s current leaders have demonstrated that they have an inherent love for their fellow man, a commitment to the general advancement of society, and an approach to a national developmental paradigm based on integrity and honesty, instead of egomania driving self-aggrandizement.
But we have political leaders and aspiring leaders, and their acolytes and satellites, who use every opportunity to denigrate and derail the developmental processes of this nation, merely to advance their own selfish causes and agendas.
However, with a new PPP/C president at the helm, Guyana will stay the course and is certain to reach safe and prosperous harbour because the captain of the ship has been tried, tested and not found wanting.