Dear Editor,
AS Guyana moves deeper into this election campaign, the differences between the parties are becoming clearer. The PPP/C has put forward a record of building roads, housing, schools, hospitals, and digital infrastructure that connect communities across our diverse nation. It is no coincidence that a child in Linden, a farmer in Black Bush Polder, and a miner in Bartica are today linked not only by bridges of concrete and asphalt, but also by new opportunities in education, health, and employment. These are not just projects — they are instruments of unity.
In stark contrast, APNU continues to rely on the tired formula of race-based mobilisation. Its campaign strategy has not evolved: stoking grievance, sharpening divisions, and pitting one group against another. The result is a politics that keeps Guyanese trapped in an old and dangerous cycle, where our votes are counted through the lens of race rather than through the promise of national progress. This is not leadership; it is a recycling of fear.
History has shown us that whenever APNU faces the electorate, its first instinct is not to persuade with policies but to divide with identity. We cannot build a modern Guyana on that foundation. No investor, no youth graduate, no rural mother struggling to raise her children will benefit from a politics that keeps us in ethnic corners.
The PPP/C, for all its challenges, has been steadily charting a different course — one of inclusion, shared prosperity, and unity. It is visible in the way new highways now cut across regions once isolated, in the scholarships offered to all races and communities, and in the partnerships with indigenous villages that give them a stake in Guyana’s development. These bridges, both physical and social, represent a clear choice for the future.
But even as we recognise the PPP/C’s role in expanding opportunity, we must be honest about the deeper problem: Guyana’s divisions are not only political; they are embedded in how generations have learned to see themselves. This is why the next transformative step must be in civic education.
A PPP/C led civics programme rooted in real experiences, not just textbooks, can do what no other party can do. When young people visit Parliament, engage in community service, participate in mock elections, and learn from indigenous governance structures, they are practicing democracy in a way that makes race less important than nationhood. When a class project brings together Afro-Guyanese, Indo-Guyanese, and Amerindian students to tackle flooding or preserve a heritage site, they learn to see each other not as political rivals but as partners in building Guyana.
If we are serious about ending the toxic politics of race, then civic education must be the foundation. The PPP/C has already built the physical bridges across rivers and communities and its manifesto pledges to continue building the civic bridges across identities.
That is how Guyana will truly grow into One Guyana. Only the PPP/C can save this country.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Walter H. Persaud