APNU must not be allowed to finish the incompetent job started in 2015
Dear Editor,
The People’s National Congress, now parading under the lone banner of APNU, has returned with a dangerous sense of entitlement, as if Guyana owes them another chance after the chaos they unleashed between 2015 and 2020.
Their recent campaign launch was not a bold new declaration. It was a reissue of the same failed
promises, the same hollow speeches, the same empty rhetoric that led Guyana into stagnation and despair just a few years ago.
Under their rule, Guyana’s economy was sabotaged. They inherited over $13 billion in gold reserves. By the time they were voted out, it had been squandered to less than $200 million. They sold our gold at the low market price – a move so reckless it would embarrass even a novice economist.
Major investors like RUSAL fled under their watch. No major new industries were built. No modernisation of agriculture. No energy expansion. No digital revolution.
What they delivered instead were mass layoffs in sugar and forestry, dried-up small business support, and a tax regime that sucked the life out of working people.
And when faced with their own fiscal disaster, they did not trim waste. They taxed school uniforms.
They taxed health benefits. They taxed the poor to pay for their incompetence.
The APNU met over US$780 million in foreign reserves and left only $200 million behind.
And then came the moment that revealed the soul of APNU: a sitting minister declared that only PNC
People must get jobs under her ministry. Not Guyanese. Not qualified citizens. Just party loyalists. That is the philosophy of the PNC, which embraces party paramountcy.
It explained the firings, the discrimination, the ghost contracts, and the paralysed public sector.
The oil deal APNU signed was one of the most lopsided in the world. At the dawn of our petroleum age, When the rest of the world would have been securing royalties and national wealth, APNU rushed to the table and folded, handing over our resources for crumbs. They crippled the very future they now Pretend to defend.
What APNU offers today is not a second chance. It is a second disaster. Without the AFC, without ideas, And without credibility, they are returning as a fractured relic of an already failed experiment.
No party that brought the economy to its knees, demoralised the public service, drove out investors,
and institutionalised discrimination has the right to ask this nation for another opportunity.
Guyana cannot survive another APNU Government. Not now. Not ever.
