So it has finally happened, and, not without the dire warnings and entreaties sounded to the obdurate parliamentary parties, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) parties.

Guyana has now been inevitably blacklisted, because of its inability in the context of the two parties to support the passage of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill that will accord Guyana compliant status.

This is indeed a tragedy for a country that had suffered for so long, and which has finally been led into the bright day of socio-economic transformation by a government that has had to live with many of its development projects deliberately stymied by two opposition parties who have lost their way amidst their constancy of budget cuts and other anti-national practices.
It is also embarrassing for the detailed scrutiny and other similar measures that will now be employed towards doing business with Guyana. As to those who may have been duped by the opposition parties’ claim that the intended measures warned by the government are a hoax, they had better think again. For not only is this a situation that will possibly cause a potential slowing down of the economy, but also one that holds difficulties for them, particularly those who receive remittances. This has been re-emphasized so many times by the executive, in seeking to sensitise the nation as to the likely fall-out.
It ought to be an affront to every patriotic Guyanese for their country to suffer betrayal in so callous and irresponsible a manner. After all, this is not a case of the government, but rather one of the entire nation that is now being made to exist among the international business community like a pariah. This is now going to be our status unless the two opposition parties quickly understand how much serious damage their irresponsible behaviour is causing to a country and its people that they claim to love and care.