THE May 11, 2015, General Election marks a watershed moment in the history of Guyana. This pivotal juncture in history finds the Guyanese electorate and the Guyanese people immersed in a battle between darkness and light. Violence, threats, intimidation, terror, destruction of property, intemperate and irresponsible public utterances, and the instigation and sustenance of racial malice are all hallmarks of the forces of darkness.

“One Love”, inclusiveness, peaceful interpersonal interactions, magnanimity, calm and sober demeanor, civilized conduct, temperate and responsible public statements, and the expressed desire for national peace and calm are the indisputable badges of the forces of light.
The distinction between the two forces are clear for all to see.
The forces of darkness want to take Guyana back to the days of brutal dictatorship and racial division, economic stagnation, and having to join a “Guyline” to secure basic food items. The party of light wants to move Guyana further forward: forging greater national unity and racial cohesion; building more extensively on the economic foundations already laid for national success; working energetically to eliminate poverty, suffering, and hunger; and ensuring that all Guyanese – regardless of racial extraction – have what they need and the appropriate social environment to realize their ultimate potential.
The choice facing the Guyanese electorate cannot be clearer: the forces of darkness or the Party of Light. The darkness filling a stadium disappears when ONE MATCH is struck. So every single vote for the Party of Light is important, very important, for us to continue construction of a new Guyana – where we are indeed forged into one people, one nation, enjoying the one destiny of peace and prosperity.
Finally, we have to look at this election as being involved in building a house – the new Guyana. We have to place bricks on a solid foundation. Each and every vote is a brick in the building of the new Guyana. Many bricks together, correctly set, will make a wall. Four walls and a roof will make the house. So each and every vote is important in building the house we are setting out to construct.
On May 11, 2015 choose Light; reject Darkness. Contribute your brick to the construction of the new Guyana.

WILBERT M. STEPHENSON
Wilbert M. Stephenson