I had visited a relative at the Georgetown hospital.
The male ward was open with no curtains or partitions, and a generalized ambience of oldness. For a few minutes I was disoriented and shocked to see such squalor. I was speechless. (However, the new female ward was very classy and impressive).
The thing with Guyana is they are not out for excellence. They believe in good enough, and with the PPP, as long as it is slightly better than the Burnham days, that's a boast. They benchmark progress, not with the rest of the world, but with Burnham's days of tyranny.
It's not that there had been no progress, the ones who have made real progress are anyone connected with the ruling party and feeding on the govt's trough. The PPP set up a pernicious system, and very little is trickling down to the working poor.