Let’s inspire our Guyanese people by Shaun Michael Samaroo

But we don’t take this attitude to the public platforms. In our national conversations, we become intense and blame each other for every imaginary wrong under the sun.
As much as we’ve got lots of work to advance ourselves and our nation, as does any society anywhere in the world; we’ve come a long way. Our foreparents had to emerge from slavery and indentureship and colonialism and imperialism and the Cold War and a poor, undeveloped Guyana to bring us where we are today.

Yet, when we listen to ourselves carry on our public conversations, we hear so much that’s wrong with us. Much of this negative way of being falls on our national media, now with untrained reporters and poor journalists. Today, filled with all types of media, the Guyanese society suffers a daily inundating of poorly written, badly designed and terribly thought-out content. Our newspapers fail us daily, and overseas Guyanese who read news of their homeland online see an image of Guyana riddled with vicious crime, and where everywhere is unsafe and bad.

Yet, the people who publish such terrible stuff live well here, in big fancy houses and drive nice cars and travel overseas for vacation. But, stunted in vision and lacking the ability to inspire our nation and impact people with the real Guyanese story, they go about daily demoralising the Guyanese people.