The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is pushing Guyanese citizens beyond their limit. The old formula of fear and intimidation no longer works. The arrests, cybercrime charges, extrajudicial killings, and targeted harassment of government critics have lost their sting. People have had enough.
This government has tried everything to silence dissent, weaponizing the courts, empowering online bullies to launch vile, coordinated attacks against any voice of opposition, and using state resources to punish those who are not friends, family, or favorites. Permits delayed. Jobs denied. School visits blocked. And all based on whether you genuflect to the ruling class.
They’ve created a culture of fear, yes, but that fear is collapsing. Rather than join the chorus of silence like those who slurp their master’s soup and mumble cowardice as loyalty, the people are rising. They are rejecting the psychological chains. They are speaking out in barbershops and schoolyards, on WhatsApp and TikTok, in markets and mosques, in pulpits and political meetings. And when they are not speaking out publicly, they are preparing to do so privately, on September 1, from the quiet confines of the polling booth.
This government should be afraid. Their own supporters are quietly turning. They have radicalized the very base that once gave them cover. The betrayal is too loud to ignore.
They had one task, use Guyana’s oil wealth to improve the lives of the Guyanese people. Instead, they enriched themselves. They funneled contracts to hidden business partners, operated through shell companies and middlemen, and ran up record levels of procurement fraud. While the average Guyanese household is forced to cut meals and skip medication because food prices have risen by more than 75% in the last four years, the PPP leadership toasts wine with diplomats and hosts private dinners to pat themselves on the back.
Public servants are offered 8% pay increases while the cost of living has tripled. The young and old alike are suffering, and the PPP elite are cavorting in air-conditioned privilege.
This regime is not led by statesmen. It is driven by a cluster of poorly advised nitwits propping up a man who, by all appearances, remains a deeply wounded, psychologically tormented figure, one who seems incapable of empathy and intoxicated by control. That is not leadership. That is pathology.
The PPP believes that control of the media, manipulation of state resources, and reliance on ethnic division will protect them again. They are wrong. The quiet anger of the people is real. The resistance is growing. The rebellion is already underway, in thoughts, in homes, in hearts.
September 1 will not just be an election. It will be a reckoning. And the PPP will finally pay the price for their arrogance, corruption, and betrayal of the Guyanese people.
