Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s statement is of utmost significance

Dear Editor,
When Prime Minister Mia Mottley made the statement that Caricom would not allow democracy to be stolen from the people of Guyana (paraphrase) she was making a statement of fact. She, being the Chairperson of the Community, is duty-bound to ensure that a fellow sister State keeps in line with the democratic norms and processes that the community holds so dear.
It is a sacred dogma that she, as well as all of Caricom, must uphold. In this regard, she has every right to speak up on an errant sister State.
Now, as true to form, the APNU came out swinging, calling Ms Mottley every vile name known to man, real and imaginary. It was a really low-down gutter type attack. Now what is interesting to note is that some of these foul-mouthed disgraces have relatives and families residing in Mottley’s country, Barbados, some of which are illegal aliens, barely existing on the fringes of society.
But such is the low, degrading and crass stupidity of that party and its followers. These PNC supporters fail to realise that with one stroke of her pen she could make hundreds of illegal Guyanese residents in her country homeless and that’s not a joke. The last survey I have seen shows more than 30,000 Guyanese (legal and illegal) residents in Barbados.
That is quite a large number of persons living outside of their home territory. Against this backdrop, I turn our attention to the most important aspect of our discussion, that is, the revival of democracy in Guyana.
We are all too familiar with the 1970s way into the 90s when thousands of Guyanese fled their country because of the brutal political and economic persecution – yours truly being one of them – our flight mainly due to the repressive policies of the PNC Government. Many of the selfsame supporters would like to wish away this fact, however, the realities of that period still stand out like a beacon, ever reminding us as to the shameful way it was. If they are honest with themselves, they would hang their heads in shame never to countenance, far less to permit, the occurrence of such an atrocity of a dictatorial regime here again.
So, Miss Mottley was in a modest and veiled way saying that she would like for the preservation of democracy or simply put, that the will of the Guyanese people be respected. She is attributing that possibility in the swearing-in of the duly elected Government, one that is well equipped with the necessary skills to govern and return Guyana to a place of stability.
In other words, she was subtly saying that she would not like Guyanese to return to the days of being refugees, strangers and foreigners in another person’s country. Guyana should not see poverty years, nothing of that bitter and distressing past, instead, we should be basking in the modern day of development, under a Government of the people’s choice.
Finally, Guyanese in and out of Guyana would like a peaceable life in their homeland, this can only be achieved with the transition into the new PPP/C Government.

Respectfully,
Neil Adams