{"id":252319,"date":"2020-07-11T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=252319"},"modified":"2020-07-11T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:34:00","slug":"commentary-a-new-day-in-guyana-professor-sir-hilary-beckles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/commentary-a-new-day-in-guyana-professor-sir-hilary-beckles\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: A New Day in\u00a0Guyana &#8211; Professor Sir Hilary Beckles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_252320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252320\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-252320\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Professor-Sir-Hilary-Beckles-642x428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Sir Hilary Beckles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">Sometimes it requires a personal rather than political or professional perspective to see beyond the borders of a seemingly divisive circumstance, and to offer a dispassionate comment. I was named by my father after his cousin, Hilary Alfonso McDonald Beckles. \u201cHAM Beck\u201d, as he was called, was little known in our native Barbados, but his contribution to nation-building in <span class=\"il\">Guyana<\/span> is well respected. In the late 1940s, he fled \u201cBim\u201d for \u201cBG\u201d. He taught classics for near three decades at Queens College in Georgetown, where he also became principal.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">His commitments to\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Guyana<\/span> straddled the diverse ethnic and cultural scene. He married an Amerindian woman and considered himself a research authority on Hindu culture and Indian civilization. He admired the colony\u2019s ethnic diversity and adopted the new nation of 1966 as his home. Supporting the nation\u2019s dream for democratic development and the equality of ethnicities was his personal quest.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">Through those eyes, I came to embrace the wonderful land of a thousand rivers. I know something of its history and culture, including the good and the bad times evident in its turbulent journey to and beyond nationhood. It has been a torn and tortured terrain with divisive seeds sown in the colonial waters that nurture the rich land.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">The determined evidence of the debilitating deployment of ethnic identity as expressions of indigenous nationalism can be seen in far too many places. But, above it all, there is also the compelling story, in the history from sea walls to sugar estates, of commitment to the paramount principle that the will of the people should not be toppled, but respected.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">The people have spoken. And so has the highest court. From the 2019-2020\u00a0<span class=\"il\">electoral<\/span> campaign and franchise exercise, their will is now known. With much pain and sacrifice, the process has been monitored and reviewed by\u00a0<span class=\"il\">CARICOM<\/span>. The findings of the outcome should be declared and implemented. There is no other option that will be acceptable to the region and wider world. The future of the nation is assured with the compliance of State to the popular will. The regional court is counting on the integrity of the polity to protect the democracy.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">Fear of the future is not an acceptable explanation for franchise frustration in the present. Ethical conduct, and not ethnic constructs, is expected to rule when democracy is in need of advocacy. The children of indigenous survivors, the chattel enslaved, the deceived indentured, and others in between, must now converge at the rendezvous of victory. The minority party should stay the course and continue to contribute to the sustainability and maturity of the integrated, multi-racial nation.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">In this regard, despite the challenges of late, the nation has much to teach its region and the world beyond. This year is the 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the violent taking of Walter Rodney\u2019s life. It was forfeit because of the socially and politically integrated values he held most dear. He was from that generation of outstanding\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Guyanese<\/span>\u00a0scholars nurtured by HAM Beckles.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8466620759134971310MsoNoSpacing\">I join with the current and past Heads of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">CARICOM<\/span>, the Honourable Ralph Gonsalves and the Honourable Mia Mottley respectively, and with the former Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honourable Owen Arthur, in calling for the official embrace of the evidentiary truth of the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">election<\/span>. Every hour that the celebration of a new day is allowed to sour, the greater will be the tarnish on the varnish of the history of a great nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes it requires a personal rather than political or professional perspective to see beyond the borders of a seemingly divisive circumstance, and to offer a dispassionate comment. 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