A Vote of Conscience – To the Brave Men and Women of Guyana’s Disciplined Services
Today, you vote.
Not as spectators. Not as instruments. But as citizens who have given your lives, your strength, and your loyalty to this country—often without receiving even a fraction of what you are owed in return.
This is not just another election. This is not just another ballot. This is a moment of reckoning—for you, your family, your community, and the Republic you swore to defend.
Before you cast that vote, ask yourself: Are you truly satisfied with how you have been treated?
Look around you. After years of service, long nights, dangerous missions, and endless sacrifice—what do you have to show for it?
You wear the uniform with pride, but does the nation treat you with respect?
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How many of your comrades have died in the line of duty, and to this day, their deaths remain unsolved?
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How many times have you been sent into harm’s way without proper equipment, without adequate training, without backup?
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How often are your families left behind to worry, unsupported, unsure if you’ll come home—financially vulnerable even if you don’t?
And yet, in a nation now ranked among the wealthiest in the world per capita, you are still underpaid, under-resourced, and undervalued.
Where is your share of the oil wealth? Where is your improved housing? Your health benefits? Your children’s education? Your pension security?
Instead, what you face is the quiet abuse of loyalty—of discipline used against you.
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You’re told to “comply, then complain.”
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You’re expected to serve blindly, even when orders go against professional standards.
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You’re caught between your duty to the people and the political agendas of those who use your service to their advantage.
Your service was never meant to be partisan. It was never meant to be political.
But today, promotions are handed out like rewards during election season. Commands are given not for public safety, but for political theater. And the institutions you serve are used to divide communities rather than protect them.
You are not tools of any government. You are defenders of the Republic. And that Republic includes all Guyanese—regardless of race, party, class, or geography.
Let’s talk plainly: too many of you have been placed in conflict with the very communities you swore to protect. Not by choice, but by design. The trust is being eroded. And when trust breaks between the uniform and the people, the nation itself begins to fracture.
You’ve also watched our borders grow increasingly porous—smuggling, trafficking, gun running, and foreign threats ignored or downplayed. Yet you are still expected to hold the line, without the tools, without the manpower, and without the political will behind you.
This cannot continue.
Today, you are not just casting a vote. You are making a decision about your future.
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Will you vote for more years of silence, neglect, and manipulation?
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Will you endorse those who remember you only when elections come?
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Or will you demand better—not just for yourselves, but for the country you vowed to serve?
This is not about party. This is about principle.
This is not about protest. This is about power—the quiet, righteous power of a vote cast with conscience.
You deserve more. Your families deserve more. Guyana deserves more.
So think hard. Remember the fallen. Remember the promises. Remember the fatigue and frustration that no one sees.
Then, vote as if your future depends on it—because it does.
Let your vote speak the truth no commanding officer can silence.
Let it stand for every brother and sister in uniform who was told to obey and forgot they could choose.
Let it mark the moment the Disciplined Services stood not just in defense of Guyana—but in defense of themselves.
