you plan to send the nation to GT hospital you have to build a new burial ground
Adressing a packed audience at the Pegasus Hotel, Prime Ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo said that after the 60 years Guyana was making another giant step towards national reconciliation, multi-ethnic and multi-party rule.
βIt will be, as it has been, a bumpy road to the Promised Land. But we will not be daunted. We will not be intimidated. We shall defeat the monster of racism.
Nagamootoo, who resigned from the Peopleβs Progressive Party (PPP) after more than 40 years and joined the Alliance For Change (AFC) as its Vice Chairman, said the restoration of electoral democracy in 1992 started a hopeful process but did not bring healing. He hopes that the coalition between the AFC and David Grangerβs A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) will bring an end to the new cycle of autocratic, one-party rule, corruption and complicity in criminal enterprises.
βSince 1955, a single occurrence called βthe splitβ had wounded our Guyanese civilization. It occasioned political and ethnic division. But today, today β after 60 years β we are taking a conscious step to put the healing balm to the scars of that division. Today, we hold out a new promise of addressing the legacy of ethnic insecurity in Guyana,β he said in his address.
Guyana entered into period of race-based politics after the PPP split into two into the Afro-Guyanese dominated Peopleβs National Congress (PNC), which is today the largest partner in APNU, and the largely East Indian-based PPP.
Referring to the coalitionβs merged symbols of AFCβs key and APNUβs hand, the veteran politician quipped βin our hand is the key to unity.β