THIS week I want to spend some time on deeply retrospective resolutions and hope that, in the final analysis, my conscience will be filled with that feeling of quiet equanimity.The appeal to my country men and women will be for them to be seriously aroused and also reflect on the path our country appears relentlessly heading toward.
There is clear danger ahead. There is the frightening thought that the return of the days of rice flour and all the deprivations associated with those horrible days can again be experienced.
We need to be dispassionate as ever, to summon the ability to be focused on what is best for Guyana, because propaganda is irrelevant and must be eschewed; and racial consideration is sinful and must be so regarded.
The obligation to be principled must be embraced and should be guided by our conscience. We have to be satisfied that our free will was what piloted our decision to support one party above all others.
Performance is what matters most and, to my mind, we have had previous examples of governance over the past forty years: And what was the situation regarding these forty years.
Dispassionately, in the immediate past twenty years we have experienced and enjoyed the kind of forward movement never before recorded in the short history of our country becoming independent from Britain in 1966.
We ended up in absolute shambles during the first twenty odd years. Today, Guyana stands proudly amongst rapidly-developing nations, enjoying peaceful development in all areas of social and economic advancement.
We can traverse the length and breadth of the country without much hassle in a matter of days, rather than the olden days of serious jeopardy.
Linkages have been created by the sheer force and logic of a people determined to explore all avenues of achieving wealth.
This is a perfect example of what it takes to build one’s country. Facilitating measures have had to be put in place by an understanding Government.
And so, our country marches on, refusing to be stifled by reactionaries determined to hold back any or all progressive measures to move the country forward. But we are fortunate to have experienced, by their determined demonstration with a one-seat parliamentary majority how hopelessly and quickly our proud country can become, once again, with an incipient Government in their hands.
Our resolve must be absolute, our task is noble – to keep our country on a continuing fast development path towards a modern state-of-the-art country.

(By David DeGroot)