Dear Editor,
The mammoth crowd at the historic launching of construction of the Berbice Stadium Multi-Purpose Facility was thrilled and excited by the ‘journey of modernisation’ charted by both President Irfaan Ali and Vice President Jagdeo which will once again take Berbice out from the utter ‘darkness’ of economic decay and deprivations which engulfed it during the 5 years of mismanagement and squander mania suffered at the hands of the APNU/AFC Government from 2015 to 2020. This sad state of affairs had spread in every nook and cranny countrywide and every Guyanese suffered except the chosen few who sold their souls to the coalition.
Fortunately, by this time Guyanese are aware that this Government delivers on what it promises and a lot more, which is quite unlike the coalition which kept promising the ‘good life’ but never delivered it. In fact, none of its 2015 campaign promises were kept and living got progressively worse as more than a trillion dollars was squandered.
The President stated that his Government is not involved in ‘guesswork’ but there is a ‘deliberate strategy’ which will utilise the revenues from oil and oil resources for the upliftment of the Guyanese people. He outlined a series of transformational projects which will ensure economic sustainability far into the future and will benefit generations of Guyanese.
The Berbice Stadium, a level 5 hospital, an industrial hub, a manufacturing hub, an agro-processing hub, the opening of thousands of acres of agricultural lands, a new four-lane highway to Moleson Creek, a first-world training centre, an international hospitality hospital and the high span Berbice River Bridge in the near future are among a long list of other projects which will drastically transform the lives of Berbicians and the region.
The mere handing out of oil monies will not ensure this and this is what the APNU/AFC is propagating since their economic policies are void of any socio-economic developmental thrust. This Government believes in the long-term sustainability of livelihoods and not the mere handing out of ‘fishes’.
The journey of progress will definitely continue and that is a guarantee. There will be many more historic occasions similar to the one witnessed by thousands on March 3rd, 2023 as progress continues onward.
Yours sincerely,
Haseef Yusuf
