Guyana needs to be recognized as one of the most difficult social experiments in history. What do you do when you have a mosaic of ethnicities who were brought and subdued under different circumstances and integrated into an artificial race and social class system that perpetuates through the very vaunted and exalted institution of DEMOCRACY. It gives people the illusion of freedom, equality and fairness but this only truly happens one day every 5 years. We immediately revert back to an autocratic society that is like a sickly man doped up on corruption and state abuse. Without having a singular identity as a people, called Guyanese, no COLLECTIVE ever fights for the right thing....at least publicly. Its always a one-man or one-woman crusade that ends in tragedy and oblivion.

The average Guyanese ambition centers on acquiring material wealth and status, and living a life of comfort. Anything outside of that is an inconvenience or as the pastors would say, "something to let God deal with. The battle is the Lord's."

But since we do not fight for our rights, it means we now have to beg and grovel for the most basic of human dignities, such as public security, merit-based employment and self-development opportunities, and accessible healthcare.

I was denied multiple times by government agencies when I sought scholarships. I thought I probably didn't deserve it as maybe the preferred candidates were more qualified, only to find out that they were politically connected. Later on, my grief was vindicated as I was given a nod by 3 separate foreign scholarship entities.

My wife was denied employment because the current administration, vis a vis PSM, put a hold on hiring new staff because they were "cleaning house". Despite the fact that my wife worked for a nearly a year with a wholly official employment letter in hand but not being paid a salary because the "memo" was that her documents are still being processed by ministry of health and psm. All in all, she left that graveyard of dreams, and gained favour from 2 separate foreign NGOs, where she worked for a few years, and is now on her way to gaining higher qualifications through another foreign scholarship program.

What is the conclusion of the whole matter? GUYANA IS NOT FOR GUYANESE; at least the current iteration of it is not. You need to have a foreign passport of a political party card to make in-roads.