IT is my opinion that the moral fibre of our society has been eroded by one main factor, and it is the behaviour of Leaders of the PNC. They aspire to lead the country as a government someday but continue to act as rude and disrespectful kids of the worst kind. They are the ones who instil in their supporters the notion that there is nothing good in Guyana simply because they do not form the government.

 It is leaders of the PNC that go to places like Sophia, Buxton, Agricola and Linden and encourage their supporters not to cooperate with government officials, and even encourage them to use violence not only against government officials but even Law Enforcement Officers and those they perceive to have a different political view. I have heard Volda Lawrence addressing a political meeting telling her supporters to “run them out of your communities” making direct reference to agents of the government.
 It’s  statements like that made by Desmond Hoyte in which he called for “Mo Fyah, Slow Fyah” that give supporters of the PNC the impression that it is okay to destroy infrastructure. Mr. Hoyte even attended the funeral of a known criminal who by the way, died in a gun battle with police. One can argue, but I believe this gives some criminals and contemplating ones a boost and put a spring in their step since they realise they have political support from Guyana’s second largest political party. To think that if you use violence and crime as a means of earning and you lose your life in the process the PNC would give you a hero’s funeral. They would even drape your casket with our most sacred national symbol, what deterrent effect would these actions have on a young person thinking about a criminal care? I believe no. Mr. Hoyte had even encouraged the criminal gang that had taken over the community of Buxton to keep up the pressure, I believe  statements like those are responsible for the crime situation we face today.
During the PNC’s many protests, protesters were encouraged to attack only people of a certain ethnic background and to target only certain businesses. The spin off of this is still felt around the Stabroek Market area today, where people of a certain ethnic background are made victims of robberies and sometimes violence on a nightly basis. Most vendors in the area never intervene because they think it’s okay once the victim is not of certain ethnic group.
 
David Granger the present Leader of the PNC went on Facebook only a few weeks ago and posted a racial statement, this is the same man who campaigned only a year earlier as leader, on a “Unity Partnership” ticket. Statements like those give his supporters the impression that it is okay to hate the other races in our society. I believe that until the PNC and by extension APNU begins to educate its followers that this is a country of six races, that politics should not be confrontational, that we all have a right to live in a country that is free of race and strife, that racial hate and division   retrograde steps and the we are “One People, One Nation, One Destiny” then and only then we would see a further reduction in crime.  
It is true that many patriots have been threatened but this is only because of an opposition media that continue to plaster on the front pages of their newspapers all the negatives in our society, factor in their television station and one would get the impression that our country is in a hopeless state, nobody is happy here, everyone is living in poverty and our country is the worst in the world. Mind you that this is also the picture being painted to those living outside of Guyana.
That is why whenever persons visit our country for the first time they are always surprised because what they hear, read and sometimes see are very different from what the experience when they arrive here.
The only thing we as Guyanese have to be ashamed of is our capital city, but again its goes right back to the management style of the PNC, you see it is public knowledge that the Mayor of the city is a PNC official. The city is being managed now, the way the country was managed prior to 1992. Thank God we were rescued from the hands of the incompetent on October 5, 1992. One would think that they would have learnt a thing or two by now, but they have  learnt only one lesson in 20 years and that is that the name “PNC” has a negative impact on the majority of Guyanese, hence the changing of the name to contest further elections. Maybe it would take another 20 years for APNU to learn that crime, violence and destruction can never bring you political power.