People Must Disregard The PPP’s Terror Tactics…… 56

Bringing Guyana Into the 21st Century

It has shown that it not a government at all, but in fact, has transformed itself into puppets to the now publicly acknowledged cabal of politicians and businessmen intent on enriching themselves through the corrupt and deceitful practices with which we are now so familiar.

The role of the PPP propaganda machine is to lend an air of legitimacy to these money-raking schemes while projecting the appearance that there is a government in place with the peoples’ interests and welfare at heart. The PPP has shown that it has little real interest in our general welfare. It has trampled underfoot public servants’ rights by callously disregarding their opinions for better welfare by unilaterally issuing the wholly inadequate 5% increase in public sector wages. It has issued house lots to poor people, in many cases, sending them to locations so far away from their places of employment that these people are now poorer with their new homes because of higher transportation costs and reduced family time. And it is not a case where these people can find jobs any closer to their homes, since there are no businesses any closer to their homes. Recently, the government declared that Guyana has enjoyed 5% growth, and one can imagine, patted itself on the back. I would like to give the PPP the opportunity to respond to the following questions: How many employable bright Guyanese continue to leave our shores every year in search for a life that PPP have been unable to provide for them? How many jobs has it created during the two decades or so since it has been in power? After this enormous lapse in time, how many large new companies do we see through the length and breadth of our country? How many sugar workers have been displaced through woeful mismanagement and misdirection at GUYSUCO? Why has the unemployment issue not been addressed more clinically by first producing statistics on employment in all of our ten regions? The answer to the last question is that it would tell the plain, painful truth, that a large percentage of our employable Guyanese men and women are either unemployed or under-employed.

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