AS we transition into this New Year, one wonders whether the two parliamentary Opposition parties, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC), can conscientiously declare that they have contributed productively to the development of Guyana? And, if so, by what good national deeds?

For so many times have the nation been made to understand by these two parties, of their undying love for country and welfare of its people, especially at a time when such a verbal affirmation should have been translated into nationally good deeds.

But they have let the nation down, because of their unpatriotic and purely selfish acts that have been far removed from what are required of responsible Opposition parties. We are all aware of these anti-national acts, so they will not be repeated here.

Both these parties have spent too much time on plotting to destabilise Guyana’s development; of course, with the aim of coming to power via the back door. And what has such devious political tactics inform us? Of two parties that cannot be trusted, and have wasted very precious parliamentary time, pursuing goals that are not in keeping with the national interest.
Their entire mindset, have not joined with the specificities of advancing the nation’s development agenda.

It has been, in reality, a mental mind that has been entirely archaic, in keeping with the well- known politics of NO which President Ramotar alluded to, sometime ago.
It is very unfortunate that the nation, particularly its younger segment, has had to experience such an unedifying and unproductive waste of energies, emanating from a collective that comprises of representatives of the people.

OBSERVER is certain that many of this younger generation of Guyanese are questioning the choice of these as Members of Parliament. Who did they really represent?
Could there have been an altogether new thinking on the part of the parliamentary Opposition towards protecting the national interest?
Very soon the nation is returning to the polls; and one wonders what will they be telling the general electorate in a bid to win their votes. With such a mindset, which has become an indelible mark of the politics of both Opposition parties, just how can they convince even their constituents?