GUYANA has been plagued by violence that has historically been either orchestrated or driven by the PNC. As the general and regional elections of May 11, 2015, loom nearer, we all pray that this ugly feature that normally accompanies elections in Guyana will no longer rear its ugly head; but the signs are troubling, especially with the inclusion of the AFC within a coalition accord.One cannot help but recall the role of the AFC leaders in precipitating the crises catalysed by the Linden and Agricola disturbances and recognise the combined threat posed by this combination of two highly destructive forces in the nation.

The celebrations and toasts to the coalition’s victory herald a frightening scenario, whereby they wrench leadership of this nation – either through the electoral system or by wresting it either by force or trickery.

Cry a river of blood for our country, and for the annihilation of hope for peace in the nation as headlines scream the death-knell of the nation’s flowers while fountains of champagne celebrate the death of innocents, because man’s inhumanity to man knows no boundaries, nor loyalties to kith, kin, or country; but only to the id and the ego – and the egomaniacs proliferate; and history resounds with the cries of their victims.

But where is the voice of reason? Because that silent voice in nations is as guilty of the blood of the innocents as much as the fingers that pull triggers and the architects who create blueprints for massacre and mayhem in nations.

Evil cannot propagate, perpetuate, nor serve in any way as a catalyst for outcomes of good, for its very definition encapsulates every consequence of destruction, so how could those who plan, propose, and orchestrate the death of Guyana’s peoples be harbingers of anything good for this nation? Which patriotic, caring leader would take his country down this path, which almost obliterated the cohesiveness of Guyana’s nationhood in the ‘60’s and set this nation’s economic and social progress on a downward spiral that graphed this once-prosperous nation on the same level as Haiti?

Guyana is God’s own country, but, as in the Garden of Eden, the devil resides within; and it has its serpentine coils wrapped firmly around this nation, slowly injecting its venomous brew into the national psyche and social structures; because it wants domination and control and power over God’s creations. Some, like Eve, are easily seduced by the promises of easy-come prosperity, forgetting that the outcome of that seduction was the loss of Paradise, and that when the PNC controlled Guyana, they transformed this Paradise into a veritable hell. Perhaps the citizenry being seduced by PNC promises crave a return to those days.
So Guyanese need to think carefully and make the right decision when they go to the polls on May 11.