Dear Editor,
As youngsters, during horse racing season, we found ourselves at the eastern extreme of Brickdam to witness the excitement of the horses and the jockeys coming off the St. Sidwells’ bend north and then East to contest the final two furlongs to the finishing line. That strip of land was known as the Homestretch. It was all excitement.
Today, I wish to transpose those events to an extremely serious and all-consuming event that will take place in our country in just under five weeks. With our enormous resources, who prevails in that Homestretch will determine whether as a people, we are glorious or damned, This is my analysis.
Nomination for National and Regional Elections took place on Monday, July 14, 2025, Today with rallies and the media, I see a thoroughbred with the jockey with brilliant green (APNU), galloping confidently. The list on the saddle consist of some new faces, a few old but all good, genuine Guyanese.
Next is a stallion, the jockey in blooded red (PPP) with a support team on the saddle with a number of tainted personalities and dubious quality, Some showing a little respect for older folks, some unaware that the pillars upon which a safe society must rest are honesty, respect for life and a moral sense of what is right, acceptable as against the unacceptable and wrong.
The line up on the saddle includes wife beaters, cussbirds, and generally unacceptable behaviours. The use of $31B since 2020, instead of accepting a proposal to use the lands to produce prawns, which will not only be profitable but will require over three time the present work force. Then there is the revelations by Dear Mr, Sue who the bossman said he will sue Mr. Sue.
Then there is the sanctity of Life. Remember the Henry’s cousins, Ronald Waddle, Satyadeow Sawh, Courtney Crum Ewing, and a painfully long list .
Next, is the AFC, with jockey in yellow. An interesting collection of a few good, solid patriots but associated with some self centered folks, who seemed to believe that they constitute the super class and as a result causes one to reminisce on the story of the ‘Dog and the Bone.’ The Dog had a bone’in his mouth crossing a bridge, he looked down at a calm stream, sees a dog with a bone, not realising that it was his own reflection. Filled with greed, he snapped to get the bone from the dog below, thereby losing the bone he had.
Next on Homestretch is a leopard disguised with a horse, a saddle bag full of cash and further restrained by a Doggy. Instead of saying gee-de-up, he was delivering four letter expletives. Nevertheless, be reminded that the Leopard never changes its spots.
Next is a Filly, with jockey in purple, not yet politically matured, thinking and being led to believe by sycophants that they are with just a few years of political internship, right and ready for the final gallop of homestretch. One can hardly ignore the story of Narcissus. Narcissus thought he was the most beautiful and consumed with his own self adulation rejecting all others. The Gods according to the Greek mythology turned him into a flower.
The others in the line up for Homestretch, are without being unkind mostly noisy donkeys, quadrupeds, thinking they are horses. The letter published in last Saturday’s Kaieteur News written by Tacuma Ogunseye is instructive.
Finally, the PNC I know, late as it is, would leave the door ajar to give our beloved Guyana an opportunity to overcome an evil empire.
Yours truly,
Hamilton Green
Elder
