We return today to an issue of burning national interest that our yesterday’s edition editorially addressed under the title: “Opposition toying with welfare of this nation”: It is the issue of the combined APNU/AFC ganging up in parliament on Friday to kill a legislative measure of vital interest to Guyana’s future social and economic progress, namely the ‘Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism’ Bill.
The APNU/AFC is not simply engaged in ‘playing’ with Guyana’s future. Truth is, they seem bent on exploiting a mere one-seat majority to “bruck-up” the nation’s socio-economic infrastructure, methodically established over the years in government by the PPP since 1992 when institutionalised electoral fraud finally ended after almost a quarter-century.
In the process of pursuing a narrow, spiteful agenda, the Peoples National Congress, currently hiding behind the political fig leaf known as APNU (for which the WPA has, pitifully, become a poor segment) is steadily endangering the future of an entire generation of youth.
Willingly, and slavishly enabling the process of national destruction, with a combination of joblessness and criminality, as well as exposing Guyana to international ridicule, is the PNC’s junior partner, the AFC, currently immersed in degrading contradictions at its top and centre leadership.
We have previously noted how unfortunate for the PNC, in wearing the pretentious cloak of a  “partnership for national unity” under the leadership of ex-GDF Brigadier, David Granger, that it should be saddled with a parliamentarian like Carl Greenidge as its primary adviser on fiscal and economic policies/strategies.
Greenidge, whatever may be the virtues that endear him to the PNC’s leadership, happens to be the parliamentarian who was at the centre of PNC-led administrations when Guyana had been reduced to the very humiliating status as one of the world’s poorest and highly indebted countries. His political bitterness was again demonstrated with his involvement in Friday’s ‘killing’ of the anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism legislation.
First, the PNC and AFC alliance misused their one-seat majority to block from becoming a reality at this time the Amalia hydro-power project—Guyana’s single most economic development scheme. Now, a combination of the same political  immaturity and spitefulness has resulted in the blocking on Friday of the anti-money laundering and countering of financing of terrorism Bill.
So, where we go from here? That’s not easy to answer, when Guyana’s social and economic progress has been placed in serious jeopardy by the PNC/AFC alliance.
What seems quite challenging for the opposition parties themselves is how to conceal their flagrant errors of judgment, if not their incompetence and lack of integrity, that have resulted in the tragedy of, first the hydro-power project, and now the killing of the ‘Money Bill’ that has left Guyana so dangerously exposed in the conduct of its fiscal/economic policies.
Frankly, without any clear signal, as yet, of a snap general election, the PNC and AFC would have enormous difficulties in finding forgiveness when the moment of decision arrives for the electorate to decide. For whom the bell tolls?