Three months have elapsed since Donald Ramotar became the President of this country.
His rise to the position of Chief Executive of this country came as a result of his party, the PPP/C, winning the majority of votes in the general and regional elections on November 28, 2011.
Although the last three months have been a testing time for the Ramotar Government, the man, as President, stood up admirably to the test despite the incongruous manoeuvres by the parliamentary opposition.
Coupled with  this, the government has had to face up to the onslaught of the La Nina weather phenomenon which lashed our country and brought severe flooding on two occasions since the new government came into being.
These flood situations dealt a telling blow on our agriculture sector, with vegetables, rice and livestock mostly affected.
In the current situation, our country’s farmers have already started counting losses.
But the government has responded well to the La Nina weather pattern, and has, through the Ministry of Agriculture, deployed water pumps to those areas susceptible to flooding.
While all of this is happening, the government stands ready to assist all those who have been affected by the recent floods.
Agriculture is very important to the economy of this country, and all efforts are being taken to ensure its continued importance.
In general, it seems as if the government is coming to terms with this excess water on the land, as the recent two experiences have shown that the excess water drained from the land relatively quickly.
We are obliged to recognize that the People’s Progressive Party Civic is the elected government of the day by winning 166,340 votes cast, against 139,678 votes for the opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), a grouping of parties headed by the PNC, and the Alliance for Change (AFC), which received 35,333 of the votes cast.
Because of the mechanism used in the allocation of seats to the National Assembly, the PPP/C was given 32 seats, the APNU 26 and the AFC 7. The PPP/C,therefore, formed the government with 26 seats, the highest amount of either of the other two parties in the National Assembly.
The make-up of the current parliament has left us with a very peculiar situation, and for the first time in the history of this country, we have a hung Parliament.
This situation has brought a new dimension to our political landscape under which the combined opposition is using its one seat majority to derail the government development process.
It was not long before the opposition used its clout, when in the selection of the Speaker of the National Assembly, they brazenly closed the door on the government’s nominee, and in a most unbelievable manner, catapulted one from their own ranks into the position.
This was a complete betrayal of tripartite discussions held earlier, in which the President and the two opposition parties agreed on consensual agreement for matters of national interest.
Coming on the heels of the first betrayal of trust, was the opposition’s ignominious way in which they hoisted upon themselves a majority on all functional committees of Parliament.
But the icing on the cake came on the opening of the tenth Parliament, when the government, through Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh, sought to have the support of the opposition for the passage of a few supplementary financial bills for very important development projects to further enhance the lives of all Guyanese.
While a few were obviated by the opposition for reconfiguration and  re-introduction in the House, we recall that prior to the referral of the very important financial papers, in his address to the opening of the Tenth Parliament, President Donald Ramotar had warned the opposition that the government would not be held to ransom.
To say the least, the actions by the opposition that day in Parliament was a clear manifestation that it would do everything in its power to make the government unmanageable, and while doing so, prostituted its favourite mantra, “putting country first.”
Joining its bandwagon is its mouthpiece, the ‘Kaieteur News’, which has a peculiar talent for distorting the truth. For the three months this government has been in power, there was hardly a day that it was not the subject of scandalous reports, lies and sensationalism, which decent-minded Guyanese take with a “pound” of salt.
The news reports and articles that emanate from the pages of this paper are a rape of freedom of the press. It is beyond our comprehension and all decency to fathom how or why the owners of this tabloid would allow themselves to stoop so low to satiate their appetite for falsehoods.
It should be recalled that falsehood and recklessness have landed them in hot water on numerous occasions; and while they were forced to carry retractions on some reports, they were sued for others.
The people believe that in the face of all the adversaries, over the last three months, the ruling PPP/C has done exceedingly well in continuing to deliver to the Guyanese people.