Wow, how original.  I'm sure yuh padna Rose worried about yuh mental health bai.  Is diss how yuh gon write mo articles?

My country is what it is because…

Ever since a friend loaned me the book ‘From Third World to First—The Singapore Story: 1965-2000’ I have been looking at my country with a range of emotions. I have felt anger, pity, sorrow, disappointment and shame. Of course I love my country to the extent that I will never take up residence anywhere else, but I will always experience these emotions. Singapore was led by Lee Kuan Yew at the same time when Guyana was still a colony and had Dr Cheddi Jagan as its premier. Both Guyana and Singapore were at the same level of development at the time. They both became independent about the same time. Guyana had thatched roof houses and range houses. Singapore had the same. Guyana abounded with natural resources; Singapore had none. However both countries had ethnic problems. Of course the root of the ethnic problem was different, but Guyana’s was not as severe as Singapore’s. Last week, I read a news report prepared by one of my reporters. Using information supplied by the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) – who culled statistics from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) database and some other international sources – it was concluded that Guyana is 254 years behind Singapore. That was shocking. It made me place myself against Usain Bolt in the 200-metre dash. Indeed we would be starting at the same point, but at the finish my inadequacies would be most glaringly exposed. That was the case of Guyana and Singapore. How could one country get it so right and the other so wrong? It upset me greatly when people compared my Guyana with Haiti. I knew that my country like every country had poverty, but I also knew that my Guyana was doing reasonably well with the economy. But that was until I looked at the Singapore story. The economic policies of that Asian giant boggled my mind. For one, its leader bought foreign talent when the country had none, but there was a caveat. For every two foreigners there needed to be one Singaporean. There was no attempt to get the foreigner to pay a bribe. In Guyana, nearly fifty years later we bring in foreign talent who insist on their own staff. There is no need for Guyanese who, by presidential edict, should be employed alongside the foreigners. Instead, we have our leaders justifying why Guyanese should not gain employment, for example on the Marriott hotel project. But even at the national level in Singapore, there was special care to ensure that there was balance. The leaders concentrated on nationalism, something that Guyana tried by way of the Guyana National Service. Our government scrapped it and insisted on ethnic discrimination. The strange thing is that we have examples to follow; instead we have opted to do our own thing. The result is stagnation and a people who merely want to leave the country by any means possible. In this day and age we have skilled Guyanese running to other countries to peddle their ability. We say that we are trying with education, when despite all the talk we are producing increasing numbers of partially literate people. Even our teachers are not much to shout about. I have heard teachers struggle to speak the Queen’s English. Many cannot spell properly and most lack leadership skills. There was a time when we had skilled artisans. These have all but disappeared and that is because they cannot find jobs in the land of their birth. This should not be, but it is because we insist on ignoring them in favour of the foreigner. We allow contractors to deliver substandard work with impunity without recognising that this is money down the drain. I cannot begin to imagine how many millions of dollars have been wasted in this manner. We see people who take forever and eternity to complete major projects. We don’t work after 4:00 and we don’t work at nights. I have been to some developed countries and I always noticed that when, for example, they have to work on a roadway they do so at nights when the traffic is at its minimum. Our farmers work their butts off and find that they do not have markets, so they dump their produce. There was a time when the government sent trucks to buy from the farmers and arranged for markets. There was even an attempt at canning. Today, although we believe that we are keeping pace with development, we do not have a recognized cannery to process surplus foods. Instead, we buy canned things from other countries, spending money that could have gone to other things. We are a country of waste and we seem proud to be. We have tried to improve our medical facilities and we boast that these things were non-existent two decades ago, but we do not talk about allowing rookies to work unsupervised; to perform their task alongside their more skilled counterparts and so learn. We do not see the need to develop talent. These are the things that separated us from Singapore. We do not make even a simple bicycle spoke; Singapore makes cars. At the pace we are going, even at the political level, in another ten years we will be 500 years behind a country that started off with us. This is enough to bring tears to my eyes. My leaders are more concerned with looking good than with being good. They are more concerned with tearing down that which existed to apply their own brand, than with building on what we have. But then again, there is a saying that a people deserve the government they get. Our people, instead of insisting on what is needed, sit back like sheep because they are afraid of being labeled anti-government and ostracized. I know these things because I read about what operates elsewhere. We close our eyes to corruption, because we do not want to be like Singapore. We want to be ourselves, poorer than most and happy in our poverty.

The PPP loyalist like Base Board are dreaming, the cannot accept that the PPP and Uncle Nandalala are falling.

Don't worry, PNC in power, you already singing "Robin Hood days are here again".

Hey Uncle Harry Bhai, look how Nadalala and Rohee gat people lining up fuh passports. People are eager to flee from Guyana under the PPP/C regime. Why?

Line up inside.

Line up outside starts at pre dawn.

Why does the PPP still lying to the working class?

Why don't they just kill us if that is what they want?

Like how they kill the Linden martyrs a few years ago?

All politicians lie to the working class, not just the PPP.

Maybe the PPP think that it may be more economical for them if you kill yourself. At least they will save the taxpayers the cost of a bullet.

I understand that the Police were the ones who killed the men from Linden.Whether it was justified or not is the question.

There is no money in bananas in Guyana. If you aren't into coke, you won't make it. There's where the smart money lies.

American visa,lot's of people getting visa,one of

our friend both husband and wife got American

visa recently,currently they have sponsorship for the

past eight years.

If things are so bad in Guyana, where are these people getting all this money for visa processing? The American embassy is giving out a lot of 10 year multiple entry visas.

The USA, Canada and UK are on a campaign reduce the Indian population and tip the balance.  In the end, they know the only ay forward is a unity Govt.  This can only be accomplished with a balanced ethnic mix.  Guyana's population is small and giving visas is a way accomplish this.

USA knows what they are doing Baseboard.

by understanding Guyana's history, we understand our place in the world.

Remember JFK's comments on Jagan.

This was when Cheddi got sold out and this was the end of Cheddi.

<label>Date(s) of Materials:</label>25 October 1961

On 20 August 1961, Schlelinger (Kennedy advisor) advised Kennedy to meet Jagan but adopt a two prong approach:

1.  keep open dialogue with Jagan but offer little;

2.  Work with the anti-communist forces especially in the trade unions to destabilise Guyana using whatever mean necessary.

source stephen rabe's book

According to long-classified documents, President John F. Kennedy ordered the Central Intelligence Agency in 1961 to destabilize the Jagan government. The C.I.A. covertly financed a campaign of labor unrest, false information and sabotage that led to race riots and, eventually, the ascension of Forbes Burnham, a black, London-educated lawyer and a leader of the People’s Progressive Party [sic]who had become a rival of the Jagans. He became president and prime minister in 1966.

Source:  http://bztv.typepad.com/Winter/DarkSideSummary.pdf

In October 1961, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the recently elected Prime Minister of the tiny Latin
American country of British Guiana visited the White House seeking American foreign
aid. As he was a socialist, he didn't get any money. Further, Kennedy ordered the CIA to unseat Prime Minister Jagan. Within months, CIA men in Guianan triggered race and labor riots which resulted in the burning of the capital. The CIA also financed new radio
stations and phony newspaper stories to heighten unrest. Jagan clung to power for nearly
three more years before being unseated by a strong anticommunist.

kenedy was a messed up chap.  He destroyed a nation.

Robin-Hood flour boy, PPP, PNC, AFC, you out like South.