THE troubling indications and reports that the youths of the nation are being encouraged to pursue criminality rather than education in efforts to enhance their lives by certain persons to fulfill their nefarious agendas is once again surfacing with the upsurge of criminal activities involving youths in certain communities.

According to former U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. D. Brent Hardt, the third LEAD component seeks to motivate and better equip Guyanese youth to constructively engage in political and civic processes. He said: “We are developing a series of programmes and activities aimed at increasing youth interest in politics and civic affairs, while also building leadership skills among youth. These include youth debate clubs and youth civic education gatherings.” The only problem is that only the opposition leaders and their youthful supporters are beneficiaries of these programmes; and one knows all too well the direction that leadership takes in Guyana’s socio-political dynamics.

No matter how deep the loyalty is to a political party, Guyanese across all the divides need to sit up and take notice, without prejudice, of what is happening to the nation’s children; and then act accordingly to save them, because children are the wealth – the future human capital, of this nation.

As one letter-writer pointed out, Louis Farakhan’s deputy, Akbar Mohamed, came to Guyana and was holed up in a hotel room, unknown to security and, when caught and confronted said he came to Guyana to talk to the youths of Guyana. He was proven to have strong links with the PNC leadership and had been engaging youths in Buxton and Linden. And here, one needs to remember PNC Parliamentarian Abdul Kadir, who is now languishing in a U.S. jail for engaging in plots of terroristic programmes.
He also, like the youthful bandit from Agricola who was killed in an encounter with the police, loved to pose with guns. Then there are the linkages with the Buxton Resistance movement and the Agricola and other criminal gangs, seemingly confirmed by a revealing conversation between two high-profile persons who were clandestinely taped; as well as hailing as hero a deadly rapist, thief and murderer, Linden (Blackie) London and draping his body with Guyana’s flag.

The letter writer asked: “How many Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, or Amerindian youths are there in Buxton for him to talk to? Like all those American missionaries coming and going into Guyana unknown to security until Government asks what they are here for.”

He pointed out that was the only time Guyanese were told that those American ‘missionaries’ have been brought here to help supporters of a certain opposition political party. The writer added: “Ever since the ‘white man’ left Guyana and installed PNC leaders to power and they ruled for twenty-eight years, with all the foreign help and foreign helpers their supporters can’t uplift and get up on their own.”

Judging by their actions the international community are again supporting the PNC and affiliates and do not care that they would take Guyana once more down a retrograde path by supporting the PNC, with its historical linkages to criminal elements and destructive – even murderous (Walter Rodney and the revelations of his assassination being a case in point) patterns of behaviour in Guyana’s socio-political arena.

The foreign superpowers know that installing their PNC puppets to (mis)rule this country once again can destroy – not can, but will once more destroy this nation, because their track record is a continuum of destructive, unpatriotic actions and rhetoric.

And violence: The young children being trained and indoctrinated into criminality and violence to support the evil agenda of certain elements in the society have no future; but because of their ill-gotten spoils their families, friends and neighbours support and condone their murderous forays to acquire wealth they have not earned.

No matter how deep the loyalty is to a political party, Guyanese across all the divides need to sit up and take notice, without prejudice, of what is happening to the nation’s children; and then act accordingly to save them, because children are the wealth – the future human capital, of this nation.