I HAVE been noticing a grave misconception raising its ugly head and being peddled by some youths, even adults, as it relates to the newly installed government. The misconceived notions seek to insinuate that one racial group is now in charge and supposably superior to the other. 

These utterances will only further enhance racial divide and discord among a people that should be trying to unite and build a nation.
I do not know how many persons will be reading this letter, so to those of us who would, please let us be the voices of reasoning in our land, spreading the gospel of racial unity and togetherness while fostering the correct atmosphere that is conducive to prosperity. We cannot put new wine in old bottles; both wine and bottles will perish. In this new era, we cannot demonstrate old behaviours.
I am therefore calling on all religious sectors, youth groups, organisations of all sorts and political parties to denounce these acts that can further divide our six races. For inclusive governance to work, all of the citizenry have to do their part at the ground level. We all need to be foot soldiers, weeding out these scourges of racism and preventing it from being able to establish itself in our Nation, all the while creating a Guyana model of inclusive governance that can be emulated by others.
I strongly believe that we can have a united, peaceful and developed Guyana. As John Lennon, through his song ‘Imagine’, would have put it, “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one”.
May God bless this beautiful land of ours and its six races.

DR. DANE HARTLEY