Dear Editor,
THERE was never a doubt as to how the People’s Progressive Party/Civic had been expected to react to the fact of their defeat, at the historic May 2015 polls. As far as they were concerned, their support base had always been assured. And this belief was irrespective of what their performance as government, had been.

They, as a party and government, were further buttressed in this sense of mental security, because of what had been perceived as numerical superiority. As well as, their constituents had never publicly taken them to task for the serious issues of governance.  In other words, the PPP/C took advantage of the well-known silence of their support base. Those who dared to speak were publicly abused.

This in itself, constituted  gross disrespect to their supporters, as it meant that they disrespected the former, taking their support as carte blanche. No doubt, that many of those constituencies continued to suffer from lack of basic amenities: bad roads, absence of road lights, and water, as examples. This was a situation that had been common, in especially the working-class Indo- Guyanese communities.

It was a clear case of social discrimination.It took the new government to begin remedying those severe defects that in many ways, affected those residents.  Even as the government began working towards an equitable society, it was the PPP which first refused to have engagement with the A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) government on governance, because that party’s leadership opposed Moses Nagamootoo being leader of the government’s team.

Thus, for the PPP/C to be strutting around in their constituencies, announcing that they will take back this country, smacks of untold arrogance, and a tragic over estimation of itself. What the PPP/C must bluntly be told is that it does not have the personal transport to these 83,000 square miles, called Guyana; for Guyana belongs to the people who reside here.

The unforgettable, evil criminality that this country experienced during the period 2002–to the onset of the 2006 national elections, was the kind that would have cost any government in any state that is homogeneous, its retention of office. Guyana’s 2015 election results gave, what is accepted as a razor-thin margin to the coalition, APNU+AFC.

It signalled to the PPP/C that it was no longer BUSINESS AS USUAL. This result signalled that PPP/C supporters had finally become awakened. But their leader, blinded by arrogance and entitlement, wants to use them as guinea pigs to further the self-interest of a few.

Regards
Earl Hamilton