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My fellow Guyanese, permit me on behalf of the PNCR to wish you a Happy Mashramani and hope you celebrate in a safe environment after your hard work to develop our beloved country.
It is opportune for the PNCR to celebrate the achievements of our Founder Leader and former President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham as we prepare for his 100th birth anniversary in February 2023. He has made a significant contribution to Guyana, mistakes apart. It is to his credit that we have a viable social security system in the form of NIS. It is to his credit that we are self-sufficient in agricultural produce. It is to his credit that he opened the hinterland with his policy of hinterland development among other significant developments.
The goal of the People’s National Congress Reform is to have a Guyana that is safe and hospitable that gives everyone a chance at pursuing their personal ambitions and achieving the goals that they set for themselves and family.
February 23rd 2022, marks the fifty second anniversary as a Cooperative Republic. We must not forget that our journey to Republican status was a long and tortuous one that started during the days of slavery. In this regard we celebrate our National Hero, Cuffy.
The early struggle for freedom was not only about liberty and life. It was also about economic freedom and that which was most favourable to our circumstances. The freedom for which we struggled culminated in the cooperative efforts of former enslaved Africans who pooled their money and bought abandoned plantations which they transformed into villages.
The economic and social changes that followed emancipation eventually brought us to where we are as an independent multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society that continues to evolve.
From our Indigenous people to the coming of slaves and indentured servants we have emerged as a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society. As citizens of such a society we must live and work together to ensure a just society for all Guyanese. The potential we have as a multi-ethnic society will only be realised if there is justice for all and an end is brought to ethnic and political discrimination.
While there is much about our journey that we can celebrate and be proud of, we must work to rid our society of poverty, inequity, discrimination, and injustice that are still extant in Guyana.
The PNCR in this 52nd year of our status as a Cooperative Republic renews its commitment to the reduction of poverty and inequality and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and injustice in our society. (Excerpt from PNCR Republic Day message)
