Dear Editor,
PLEASE permit me space to bring to your attention something that bothered me while I was listening to the rebroadcast of a programme on Freedom Radio on July 15, 2019. The programme was hosted by Mr. Manzoor Nadir, who was ending the calls of Guyanese who had different views or were not calling to support the PPP/C.

Guyanese, how can we give the PPP/C another chance in office to lead Guyana, and they are still repeating the same old attitudes of disrespecting people who have a different point of view by stopping us from expressing how we feel about the PPP/C or anything of concern to us.

According to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: Article 19 “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

If I was thinking about giving the PPP/C a next chance in government, my mind just changed from doing that. How can we go back under this PPP/C, who jailed Mark Benschop, Oliver Hinckson, Bruce and Carol Ann Munroe and Junior Wharton on trumped-up treason and sedition charges? They want to continue preventing Guyanese from expressing themselves! In my opinion, the PPP/C has not made any significant changes in the way they operate, and they are still coming around Guyanese with the same old oppressive attitudes.

Editor, Guyanese are not prepared to face the hardships and limited freedom of speech again by any PPP/C administration. This APNU/AFC government has never stopped Guyanese from expressing their views, or from picketing. So far, they have always allowed Guyanese citizens to express their democratic rights.

This country has moved in the right direction with regards to civil liberties, which were nonexistent, or severely curtailed, under the PPP/C government. The nation is no longer fearful of expressing dissenting views in the dailies, in the streets, or on social media. It is my belief, as a young man, that by being governed by the APNU/AFC, we will continue to experience an upward mobility in all spheres of our national life.
Let us vote for peace and liberty in Guyana.
Regards,
Ceion Rollox