PNC chose to destroy Guyanese while PPP/C chose to develop Guyana

Dear Editor,
Making a political decision by choosing from alternative leaders may potentially be challenging. “Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil”, according to Jerry Garcia. Sometimes people like to try the evil which they haven’t tried as yet!
In the recent election in the UK, one person asked in the campaign if Kier Starmer and Rishi Sunak are the two best persons the United Kingdom has to offer to save the people. The AFC and the PNC brought forth their two “best” leaders.
In establishing the category of the Order of Democracy back in March 2021, President Dr. Irfaan Ali declared, “Like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, I believe in equality and justice, in freedom and multiracial democracy, built on the premise that all people are created equal.”
The will of the Guyanese people was recognized by the international community when the 2020 election recount substantiated that the PPP/C won the election despite the PNC’s attempts to rig the results to retain power by foul, and not fair means. To date, the PNC continues to deny the voice of Guyanese by claiming that the PPP/C Government of the day was not legally elected, but was installed!
Like a broken record, the words of Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who was then CARICOM Chair, will continue to resonate and haunt the PNC for the rest of their lives. She unhesitatingly and fearlessly surmised, “It is clear that there are forces that do not want to see the votes recounted for whatever reasons. Any Government which is sworn-in without credibility and fully transparent vote count process would lack legitimacy.”
While the PNC envelope unilateralism, the PPP/C, on the contrary, embraces multilateralism. Democracy has once again surfaced in Guyana, and the PPP/C Government is preserving its sustenance. The people’s choice will always be recognized by the PPP/C Government. On International Day of Democracy 2021, President Ali reflected, “Democracy requires all to be involved: religious leaders, civil society, and every citizen who values highly freedom and the ability to choose. All of us must ensure that democracy is safeguarded every day of our lives.”
Since the PPP/C went into power in August 2020, after a 5-month hiatus by the PNC when they created chaos and confusion in trying to deny the installation of the PPP/C in power, the PPP/C have always carefully made choices that are in the best interest of the people.
The PNC chose to increase the salaries of their Cabinet by 50% and over as soon as they took over administration of the country in 2015. They vehemently told the Public Service that civil servants have to wait. The PPP/C exercised the decency of not following their morbid example. The PNC chose to curtail salary increases between 2015 and 2019, and broke its promises with the GPSU by only granting minimal increases proportionately.
The PPP/C has allowed yearly increases from 7% upwards. In addition, there have been mammoth increases for the security forces and medical personnel, along with the teachers. The PNC chose to stop the Christmas bonus for the armed forces. The PPP/C Government has reinstated the much-anticipated relief at Christmas time.
The PNC chose to implement over 200 taxes on essential goods and services, which caused inflation to escalate and the high cost of living to frustrate the people, resulting in hardship and becoming poor. In their first Budget in 2021, the PPP/C reversed most of those taxes to bring immediate relief and reduce the cost of living by making goods and services cheaper.
The PNC chose to ‘kill’ the children’s “Because We Care” cash grant and deny each child the $10K which the PPP/C Government had instituted. On resumption of office, the PPP/C Government not only reinstated the programme, but increased the grant to $45,000 currently.
The PNC chose to fire some 2,000 Amerindian Community Development Officers. The PPP/C reinstated those very workers and more. The PNC chose to close 4 sugar estates and put over 7,000 workers on the bread line without immediate compensation. The PPP/C employed those workers and revitalized the sugar industry once again. The PNC chose to give only the chosen few, who are the privileged relatives and friends of the PNC family, scholarships to study abroad. Through the GOAL scholarship programme, The PPP/C gave over 21,000 scholarships to Guyanese throughout the country, on an equitable basis without prejudice.
The PNC chose to allocate 7,534 house lots during their 2015-2020 reign. The PPP/C is well on its way to achieving its 50,000 house-lot commitment by 2025 with a distribution system that is free and fair of discrimination.
The PNC chose to cowardly and unashamedly hide their SOPs from the last general election in 2020.

The PPP/C has readily and bravely made its SOPs available from day one. The PNC chose not to field candidates in all the Local Authority Areas in the Local Government Election in 2023. The PPP/C contested all areas in all the regions, soundly whipping them and making inroads in 90% of the areas. The PNC chose to run the nation bankrupt both times they were in office. The PPP/C has bailed out the nation in the past and left the economy in sound financial status when they demitted office in 2015. Now again they are setting a path sailing on sound economic strategies which would prosper all Guyanese.
J.K. Rowling forewarned, “Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worse for them.” The PNC chose the disastrous, diabolic, and detrimental practice of managing the affairs of the nation, which inevitably determined only poverty, nakedness and corruption, thus destroying Guyana during their 33 years of disingenuous reign. On the contrary, the PPP/C has always made the choice of peace, progress and prosperity, which has always cumulatively cultivated a culture of development for Guyana.
Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall