The Alliance For Change (AFC) in its New Year’s Message has called on all Guyanese to come together to protect the basic human rights of each citizen: the right to life, to shelter, freedom of expression, employment and equality before the law. The party says it hopes 2024 will forge a unity of all the nation’s people and the building of a Guyana where truth, justice and respect for each other and our environment guide every action.
Turning attention to the people’s strength and determination the party notes how these helped Guyanese navigate escalating cost of living, crime, road accidents and abusive relationships in 2023. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government, also came in for mention, with the AFC drawing attention to increasing corruption and victimisation, declining integrity and accountability, and violation of basic human rights. To this end the party has appealed to Guyanese not to lose hope but fight to ensure the nation’s resources are used to benefit all citizens even as it calls on all to keep up the struggle to protect our territorial integrity.
The Party’s full statement follows:-
ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE
Fellow Guyanese, as 2023 recedes into the background and we look towards a new year, the Alliance For Change, extends Best Wishes for a peaceful and productive 2024. Our aspiration is that the new year forges a unity of all our nation’s peoples and that together we build a Guyana where truth, justice and respect for each other and our environment guide every action.
We look back at 2023 with admiration for the strength and determination of our Guyanese brothers and sisters. It was a year of many challenges as we faced ever increasing prices for basic food items, increased criminal activities in our neighbourhoods and villages, more accidents on our roadways; too many of them fatal. Our women continue to suffer abuse from their spouses. Government corruption and victimisation climbed the ladder while integrity and accountability slipped into an abyss; and more recent, the stifling of the freedom of speech.
We watched as the rich resources of our land were plundered to enrich a few while the masses, including the public servants, struggled to put food on the table and pay monthly bills. The divide between the rich and the poor in Guyana grows ever wider but, despite these challenges, we faced the threat to our sovereignty as a united people. Such is the indomitable spirit of the Guyanese people.
As we face the new year, the Alliance For Change urges all Guyanese at home and abroad to not lose hope. Let us come together to protect the basic human rights of each citizen: the right to life, to shelter, freedom of expression, employment and equality before the law. Let us fight to ensure that our nation’s resources are used to benefit all citizens. Let us keep up the struggle to protect our territorial integrity.
Long live the indomitable spirit of the Guyanese people!
Long live the Cooperative Republic of Guyana!
