ksazma posted:.No doubt. But I don't see Guyanese especially the politicians willingly allowing any change in the status quo. .
A previous Bajan gov't did something that the population didn't like. 25% of them, from the richest to the poorest, went out on the streets. Black, brown, and white. the business groups, church groups, youth groups, labor groups, etc.
Guyanese don't protest unless a party makes them stooges, gives them $5 and a plate of fry chicken. And then cuss if they don't get this.
The difference is quite evident as to why "rich" Guyana is so poor and "poor" Barbados fights desperately against efforts by the World Bank and the IMF to classify them as a "very high human development" country under the HDI. This depriving them of any ability to get concessionary financing or aid.
And yes "rich" Guyana will remain "poor" even if our GDP per capita surges ahead of the rest of the Caribbean.
This is why Mia Motley is working hard to fix that island's problems and apparently making some progress. Bajans will toss her out of she doesn't. She knows what happens if the stake holder groups become angry with her.
Guyanese will whine "wha we gun do?", flee to Barbados to enjoy what that island (once poorer than Guyana) can offer them. And then be angrier with the Bajan gov't, which refuses to allow them in, than with the PPP and the PNC which left them no choice but to flee if they were to earn enough to feed their families.
I laugh how xenophobic Guyanese suddenly are with the Venoes pouring in, forgetting of course how many Guyanese live(d) in that country.
So let the PPP stooges scream that I promote Barbados. Well it turns out that yes "black man can run a cake shop" even with a mere 166 square miles of coral rock and little else.
You don't hear Bajans begging foreigners to intervene, yet every day Guyanese are whimpering to be returned back to a colonial state where foreigners rule 100%.