PPP/C Govt provides tremendous optimism for Guyana’s future (Pt 1)

Dear Editor,
Development in Guyana has to do with people, hence the new People’s Progressive party civic government will reconfigure our development models to ensure the benefits are spread more widely and evenly throughout the population. Our President, Dr Irfaan Ali, has, on so many occasions in the last 60 days, stressed the importance of economic development in every village, every city, every town, every community; that opulence should exude from each nook and cranny that can be seen in this country.
The Government has already recognised the importance of creating conditions for the full participation of residents within their own municipalities and Neighbourhood Democratic Councils, and will work towards breathing new life into our village economies so as to increase economic activities, provide jobs within villages for residents, promote inter-village economic exchanges, and encourage the growth of businesses, large and small, including industries.
It is our hope that in so doing, our villages will become vibrant hubs of development. Revitalisation would help to reduce rural unemployment and poverty. We must provide a better future for our children and grandchildren. The People’s Progressive Party Civic Government assures a better future through the process of economic transformation.
Economic transformation involves investments in critical infrastructural projects, initiatives and policies that are capable to leapfrogging Guyana’s development to new and better heights. This includes the establishment of an oil sector that benefits every Guyanese, the development of hydroelectricity, building an all-weather road to Lethem, bridging the Demerara River and constructing a deep water harbour, bridging the Corentyne River and constructing a deep water harbour, with the construction of a new bridge across the Demerara River linking Wismar and Mackenzie in Region #10.
Our new Government intends to revolutionise band-width and internet services throughout our country, make these services more affordable and accessible to the average consumers, and allow creation of data and call centres capable of providing employment for thousands of our young and old people.
Our Government intends to bring on stream the One Laptop Per Family project, which will ensure that no one will be left out of the process of keying Guyana into the digital world. It will make every Guyanese computer literate, and bring significant benefits especially in educating our children. More importantly, these laptops will be needed as we go through this pandemic. Economic transformation also entails modernising the traditional sectors such as bauxite, rice and sugar; developing agro-processing and eco-tourism, and cementing our status as a global leader in the provision of environmental services under our path-breaking Low Carbon Development Strategy.
Economic transformation will entail greater diversification of the economy, with emphasis on increased value-added activity. It will involve additional investments in agriculture, so as to position Guyana in the long term to capitalise on the inevitable demand for food, as the world population rises and per capita consumption grows.
All the predictions suggest that there is a great future in agriculture, and this is why we have to encourage Guyanese who own farm land to plant and farm these lands, it will pay great dividends in the future
Our Government’s trans-formative agenda thus involves catapulting our economy to a higher stage of development by fostering increased industrialisation, assuring us cheap, reliable and renewable sources of energy, keying our people into the exciting possibilities of the cyber world, and allowing for the emergence of new poles of economic growth, while modernising the traditional sectors.
In less than 60 days, our Government and ministers have already embarked on economic transformation which entails modernising traditional sectors, which gives Guyanese tremendous optimism for the future of Guyana.
Dr Cheddi Jagan and Mr Forbes Burnham put aside their differences and embraced each other right for independence of the great nation. It is time that we all, as Guyanese, do the same: put aside our egos and emotions, come together and work for development of our great country and nation as we look towards the future with great optimism, confident that the sacrifices of those who went before us laid the foundation for the bright and promising future that lies in front of us.

Sincerely,
David Adams