THE President and other Government functionaries come under continual attacks and attempts to besmirch their characters and impugn their good name through one unproven and baseless allegation or another.

But if they refute the allegations levelled against them, no matter how blatantly untrue, then those very media houses and Opposition elements cry foul, denying the President and others within the administration their fundamental and inalienable constitutional rights, which are guaranteed to every citizen in the land.

The constant refrain that seeks to deny the volume of progress in Guyana, post elections of 1992 that catapulted the PPP/C in Government, is demoralising to Government functionaries who work unrelentingly and committedly to transform the socio-economic dynamics of this country and its people.

The naysayers and doomsayers are forever prognosticating negatively about Guyana’s growth indices.
However, despite the downsizing of the world’s economy, the crisis has scarcely affected our nation, except for the prices being offered for some of our exports and imports.
This is as a result of good macro-economic fundamentals, with a stable inflation rate.

The Executive Directors of the IMF noted in one of their reports that, despite external shocks and social pressures, the Guyanese authorities have maintained macroeconomic stability in 2008 through the implementation of prudent fiscal and monetary policies.

Currently, the humane President of the most powerful nation on earth is fighting for what little Guyana has long achieved – free healthcare for its citizens.

But the nitpicking continues, and in the interest of this nation this stone-throwing must stop and all must show genuine commitment to collaborative endeavours toward nation-building. It is the only way we will survive.

One Guyanese businessman has said: “We are all in this boat together. We fought for independence and we got it. It is no longer them and us. It is we, together. We have to learn the art of agreeing to disagree without burning down the house, the art of compromise and, particularly, the art of really working together in good faith always in the interest of Guyana.”

But the interest of Guyana is always put on the back-burner by those whose agendas are mainly to promote their own vested interests.

Until the ‘gloom and doom’ brigade is silenced by the results of the next polls, Guyana would always be held hostage to those who refuse to acknowledge that the present Administration is governing Guyana with visionary leadership.