Spread a message of goodness and goodwill

Dear Editor,

It is time that we calm down. Again, let it be said: I voted for this government. I believe in it. I think it has endeavoured, against odds, time, circumstances, and its own people. This government has made blunders. Not too few of them. I have persevered in my belief, my hope. A price has been paid for that. But I still believe in dreams for a different, better Guyana. Especially now that the geopolitical stakes and the world power chessboard has suddenly reshaped itself in our backyard, in our face. Do I see our own equivalent of a Cuban Missile Crisis? There is such a thing called socialist brethren.

Having said all of the foregoing, I do wish (in this season of joy and goodwill) that those with voice and pen: Ram, Fenty, Hinds, Goolsarran, Kissoon, Gildarie, McDonald, Ramkarran, Lewis, and others will endeavour strenuously to spread a message of goodness and goodwill; of justness and fairness; and of what is peaceful and fair. We are too small to be otherwise. We are too big as men and women, as a society, and as a people to be as we have been, to continue along the way that has hurt.

In closing, I extend best wishes to President David Granger, the government, the entire opposition, my fellow contributors, and Stabroek News, Kaieteur News, and Demerara Waves for the courtesies. I pray for our country. Please pray for me.

Yours faithfully, GHK Lall