Let’s inspire our Guyanese people by Shaun Michael Samaroo

HOW we see ourselves as the Guyanese people makes or breaks our nation. How do we see ourselves? We could get an idea of our self-esteem as a people, of our confidence to rise to be a noble people, of our ability to get along and build Guyana, from how we engage in conversation in the public square.

Our land is supremely blessed, so peaceful and pastoral. We don’t suffer from natural disasters of any kind, except occasional light flooding in the low coastal communities. No longer are we poor and bedraggled, as much of Haiti remains. Compared to Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica, our crime rate remains remarkably low. Even in road fatalities, we’ve made progress, with stats showing a close to 100 percent reduction in people dying on our roadways over the past decade. Our economy hums, growing year after year. Investor confidence in Guyana is at the highest its ever been in our history. Our commercial banks are doing bright business. We now house, feed and clothe ourselves with ease and comfort.

Yet, we refuse to celebrate our successes, instead bashing ourselves and carrying on a national conversation lacking any sense of how far we’ve come as a unified Guyanese people.
So much we’ve got to be thankful for, but of course we cannot just sit back and expect development to magically happen. We’ve got to work hard, exercise discipline and sense, and, most of all, engage with each other as fellow Guyanese, the way we rub shoulders in school and in our neighbourhoods and among our friends. We rank high on the global stage as a society for tolerance, freedom of religion, freedom of the media, and as a decent place to live.

However, much of our blessings go either unnoticed, or we refuse to talk about ourselves in a positive way. We twist the Guyanese story into a grotesque monster, seeing ourselves battling dark clouds.
We have not yet learned how to tell the Guyanese story, either to ourselves, or to the world.
What we tell ourselves is that we’re poor, corrupt and incompetent, and we place this cross on our Government. And we walk around beating ourselves up, berating ourselves with vague negative generalities and unspecific accusations and criticisms.

Who is this mook ? he sounds out to Lunch  :-[

Shaun needs a little perspiration for this inspirational story...where does he live again? What just cause can he exact on the Guyanese people whose experience is diametrically opposite to his?

Shaun closes his door and goes to sleep like a baby...trusting his safety and well being will not be compromised by desperate, and despicable bandits, and an equally incompetent police force. He knows that the spoils of his labor will not be snatched away by hoodlums whose careers begins with the operation of a handgun and the assistance of a weak political will. The corruption of this government is at an all time high, and this speaks volumes, post Burnham era. The ppp fat cats are all choking themselves with obese and obscene wealth grabbing, and the masses are defenseless against a corrupt police and judicial system....the likes of which Shaun's immunity had clouded is vision of the average man. These kumbaya nonsense has to stop...let the facts speak for themselves. Robberies, corruption and maladministration is no yard-stick to measure inspiration.

However we can all be eternal optimists...but lets, for the sake of the average Guyanese, keep our feet on the ground. 

thats crap sca.  the ppp dont steal

Then please explain your minister's wealth? And the ex-pm's assets...

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Then please explain your minister's wealth? And the ex-pm's assets...
[/quote] Last Pm if I am not mistaken was Hamilton Green .Present Pm is Sam Hinds.
Hamilton Green acquired his wealth through Bribery and corruption

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Then please explain your minister's wealth? And the ex-pm's assets...
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which minister?