ONE is left to wonder, whether the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) understands that by its very name what its role is supposed to be. That this question is asked, is  a result of its headline, “Gov’t must stop creating unease about budget cuts, says GHRA.” Any first response to such an asininity of a statement must be: what can   cause more unease than budget cuts that threaten hundreds of livelihoods, coupled with programmes that are meant for the well-being of the nation?
Mc Cormack and company must know that this is indeed a real situation and not one created by the government for political gain, mischief or some dark, ulterior motives.
This is a scenario, carefully orchestrated by two political parties, opposition groups that have been expected to act entirely in the national interest as a result of a parliamentary situation, unique in this country’s history. Instead, the nation’s advancement stands still as a result of diktat.
There is no need for an exercise of any “systematic programme of disinformation being carried out in Amerindian areas” where the budget cuts are concerned. Amerindians are more than intelligent and aware of what the realities of these cuts mean for their socio-economic development, particularly as they relate to the land demarcation exercise, a project that is dearest to their hearts; and the illumination of their entire communities by the distribution of solar panels, which will also be affected.
For a people, whose communities had never before been illuminated, the advent of electrification is indeed a momentous occasion which when completed will usher in numerous changes within those Hinterland communities. In all good sense, is it not time for these worthy citizens, our Amerindian brothers and sisters, to feel cheated, hence uneasy, over what is occurring at the moment?
To allege that  the executive  is in denial of the November poll results is purely unsubstantiated, for the simple reason that the administration accepted the results from the onset, and immediately declared its willingness, which has been demonstrated time and time again, to work consensually with the  other political actors, for the nation and  its peoples’ advancement. How well the political opposition has answered to this call can only be examined against the background of the parliamentary tragedy that they both have caused so far.
This truism must be emphasised as a reminder for McCormack and his organisation.
There is no government, inclusive of the current administration, that would have done so much for the progress of the nation that it governs, would have reacted very kindly to a situation of almost gridlock.
It must hurt to observe for instance, development interventions being threatened, as a result of such reckless action, as budgetary cuts. The situation is even more complicated, when the cutters are as intransigent as the two opposition parties are, totally oblivious to the great pain that are going to be suffered  by those who will lose their employment, and, of course, the nation as a whole being threatened.  How long must any government, with a mandate to govern, allow this lawlessness and unconscionable acts, to stymie its many development plans? Of course, going to the people is the most logical and wise thing to do. Let the people decide.
Finally, any election called at this time will evidence more people voting across racial lines, for what they know are the issues that most affect their lives.
It is about bread and butter, a basic human right that will be at stake at the next poll.