Where there is no vision...

Old politics

A majority of Guyanese are tired of the old politics, involving the trumpeting of the race card, destabilization of the country, ratcheting up of old lies, and reinventing of the wheel. What the Guyanese public really wants is a break from the past. There is a cry for a whole new vision of lifting the country out of its present political mire, onto a whole new level of goodwill and brotherly love.

As a Guyanese foremost, I am really disappointed that there is no talk of what is the vision for Guyana in the long term. For instance where do we see Guyana in five years time? Assuming we have someone who comes up with several visions, then how do we fulfill these visions?

Whilst waiting for someone to come forward and share their vision I will begin by indicating what I consider to be of foremost concern to me. I believe it is time that the television talk show hosts in Guyana urgently get their acts together. Many of these hosts have used the airwaves to spew their venom to create divisions and hate in our society.

Nevertheless, somehow I feel these individual and other TV personalities have tremendous potential to offer the Guyanese public something more substantive than the same old poisonous crap over and over. It is possible to promote unity, harmony and educational programs that can promote the stars, musicians, writers, sports persons, businesses and outstanding students and citizens of our great country.

Should these TV hosts then seek to promote peace and harmony over the airwaves then businesses should seek to sponsor such programs and encourage its refinement. Advertisements should be poured into these channels to help provide finance for the station and further encourage even greater expansion of such programs across the country.

Another important vision that I would like to share and which I believe should be given urgent attention is the expansion of independent radio and television channels in our country. Somehow the media association needs to get its acts together and promote a healthy TV, radio and press and not for the employees in these areas to politicize everything as has been going on for sometime now. There must be much more to the media than politicizing.

Broadcasting legislations along with independent commissions should be urgently established to prevent inflammatory talk show host from cropping up across the country and huge fines should be instituted against the channels who allow such programs to be broadcasted. Fair and balanced disciplinary actions should be taken against individuals also who use the airwaves or press to cause incitement and cause destabilization in the country.

Let me indicate clearly that I cannot write to cover all the visions I have in one go. So in my next article I hope to cover the archaic laws and legal system being executed in our country. I would really appreciate it if any of you reading this and would like to make any suggestion, contribution or share your own visions; to feel free to kindly include in your own articles or emails; in what I hope to be a healthy discussion.

AP

Which is better?

Business versus education? Which one should be pursued first? Do we make full use of the education we pay for? What about business owners in terms of realizing their goals?

Bill Gates dropped out of college to pursue his business dreams and still today is the world's richest man. There are probably thousands of individuals with similar stories. Most of the rich people in today's world are business owners.

Education has a role to play, but at the end of the day it is business that will prevail!