Dear Editor,

IT is said, there is really no bad situation or should I say, it depends on how that situation is viewed and looked at from different vantage points.
The President’s illness and the now famous no-confidence motion in itself have provided many opportunities and chances for the His Excellency, government representatives and supporters of both the coalition and the PPP/C party to do some serious introspection and evaluations in many respects.

His Excellency, when he was faced with this medical condition and having  to rest, recover, think about his own mortality, his legacy as arguably the most honourable and decent president to sit at the highest level of leadership, was afforded the rarest of opportunities, to evaluate the people/comrades around him and the team of ministers, members of parliament and all representatives of government hence local, regional, national and the various ministries and departments to help him build a new Guyana.
The question is, has he done so?

I want to strongly believe he has and the most recent changes are  indications of that; and I want to believe more will come in the nearest future. The President is a master chess player and he knows what he is doing.

Mr. Editor, some may want to disagree with me and they are welcome to do so, but the now famous no-confidence motion was a blessing in disguise. What the plotters and schemers of this motion expected, did not happen as planned.

This NC motion has literally awoken the government and its supporters.
Some of our leaders who were asleep at the wheel are now awake, those who were invisible are now visible. Supporters of the government who were bitterly complaining have seen the nature of the beast the “PPP/C” and the lengths they would go to acquire power, no matter the cost, no matter the consequences. This no-confidence motion has awakened a consciousness in our support base.  All who were saying they are not going and vote are now saying “we cannot allow this “wicked PPP” to get back into power.
Those who believed the government were only the President, ministers and MPS now have a different understanding.

Those chief executive officers, board of directors, regional executive officers, general managers, all who were deserving of a promotion and got it under this government, must understand they have a solemn duty and responsibility to help support this President and his government from local, regional and the executive to achieve a new Guyana, where all can have a good life in a safe, clean and progressive land.

Mr. Editor, the supporters of the PPP/C have also benefitted from this betrayal motion. They have seen how the legacy of Cheddi Jagan and his party is being destroyed at every press conference by  the leader of the opposition. Those supporters of the PPP/C in Guyana and the diaspora now know its Jadgeo’s way or no way. He plotted to get who he wanted as the presidential candidate despite the majority of their party’s supporters wishes.  He is not the presidential candidate, but he is the one on a press parade, he is on a weekly campaign for attention to remain relevant like his partner Charandass Persaud, who with his Facebook postings attracts a few likes and comments.

The opposition leader continually makes his presidential candidate lesser and more irrelevant by hugging all the media space. Why is he hiding his choice of a presidential candidate?
The PPP/C supporters know that the Granger administration is one for all Guyanese. Development is happening in all communities local, regional, urban and rural, irrespective of who they voted for. I am persuaded that many who voted for the PPP in 2015 will support this coalition at the polls whenever it is called.

I maintain, Guyana under the David Granger-led coalition government is better equipped to continue serving this nation for the benefit of all Guyanese.
We must never allow ourselves to forget that most evil, wicked and corrupt PPP administration.

Forward ever, backward never
Jermaine Figueira
Member of Parliament
Region 10