Dear Editor
Today, the Peoples Progressive Party/ Civic(PPP/C), launches its political party election campaign for what has been slated to be the Mother of all Elections, due on March 02, 2020. It is obvious, that it will attract its supporters that will be bussed in from as far as Crabwood Creek and other bases, supposedly where its supporters are.
Immediately, though, one should ask the question, as to why persons should want to attend such a rally? And for what? What new, this time, has this party, dishonest to the core, that plotted to overthrow a duly elected government, would want to say to the Guyanese people, at this most important moment in its modern political life?
Those who have been familiar with the governance record of the PPP/C regime, will be familiar with its abysmal record that it will want to re-clothe for presentation to its supporters. But it will be ALL fake in similar taste to what its current campaign of dishonesty has been.
Therefore, below there are some twelve reasons why persons should not be attending today’s launching of its 2020 national and regional electoral campaign.
• The PPP/C has proven that it is not a party that embraces all the races of this country, particularly Afro Guyanese, who suffered marginalization and discrimination during its 23 years in office.
• The PPP/C continues to support racism, as evidenced by its broadcasting content on its FREEDOM RADIO; OPENLY UPHELD BY ITS FACEBOOK SUPPORTERS, and other party affiliated media, without any word of condemnation from its leadership.
• The PPP/C has continued to appeal to race, as a vote gathering ploy, which poses a threat to the national peace.
• The PPP/C continues to fool the Guyanese people, its supporters especially, as to its proposed plans for resuscitation of the sugar industry which became bankrupted during its tenure in office.
• The PPP/C denies its role in the collapse of a once industrial giant and contributor to the national coffers, despite overwhelming evidence of a debt of in excess of $80B that aggregated, before the coalition government took office in May, 2015.
• Under the PPP/C regime, corruption became a cancer, and a way of life, with several of its senior members charged before the courts, included its presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali.
• The PPP/C does not believe in integrity and truthful leadership. At least, not its presidential candidate who has presented academic certification from universities that do not exist.
• The PPP/C has never governed Guyana in the interest of all Guyanese, and for all Guyanese; but for only its friends and cronies who all became rich at the expense of the poorer sections of the nation, apart from the plundering of its resources for self- enrichment.
• The PPP/C UNDERSTANDING OF GOVERNANCE WAS TO PUNISH THOSE COMMUNITIES WHICH IT PERCEIVED WAS OF A DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTY SUPPORT.
• PPP/C never supported youth empowerment, nor genuine programmes for empowerment of women, especially in the Hinterland.
• PPP/C Hinterland programme had been to deny Indigenous peoples the right of making independent decisions for the best interests of their self-sustenance and improvement of their communities.
• Local government which means the right of citizens at the grassroots level to determine the socio-economic development of their communities, became stifled during the over two decades of PPP/C governance.
The PPP/C has been too consistent in its discriminatory pattern of governance; has not presented any discernible change of political behavior since 2015, which signals a realization of how much its failed policies have destroyed communities, and affected the lives of thousands. Its campaign has been built on the altar of gross dishonesty, distortions, and on plans ALREADY BEING EXECUTED BY THE COALITION GOVERNMENT, CHANGING LIVES AND COMMUNITIES. Therefore, the PPP/C will have nothing new to present at its rally, except the same old abysmal record with all of the horrors suffered by Guyanese.

Regards
Mark DaCosta