Naysayers must say which infrastructure in Guyana since 2020 not needed?

Faced with massive economic, social and physical infrastructure transformation in Guyana since 2020, the usual critics are in complete denial, insisting that “people cannot eat roads, highways, bridges, schools and hospitals”.
No country’s path for development is smooth. This is true for both developed and developing countries. Certainly, Guyana’s development path has had many ups and downs. But it would be dishonest for anyone to dispute that Guyana is experiencing massive transformation. Ruminations’ description is that Guyana is developing by leaps and bounds. Some might want to debate the “leaps and bounds” and be much more conservative. Still, none of us can objectively and honestly dispute that Guyana’s development has been on a steep upward trajectory.
But there is a small group in Guyana, the naysayers, driven by political motivation and, maybe, by other motivations, who have tried desperately to spin the development trajectory to distract from the fact that Guyana’s overall development since 2020 has been on a positive, upward trajectory.
These naysayers argue that the fact that Guyana is the country with the fastest growing GDP in the world six years in a row is meaningless because people do not eat GDP. They argue that the massive physical infrastructure transformations are meaningless because people do not eat highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, stadiums, etc. They insist that more than 50,000 house lots distributed and thousands of homes constructed and occupied mean nothing because people do not eat house lots or houses. They even argue that the 10,000 or more vehicles purchased by the citizens every other month is not development because people cannot eat cars and other vehicles. For every area of development, visible or not, the naysayers find something to “diss” the amazing development taking place in Guyana.
The truth is that the naysayers face the massive problem – people living in Guyana and those visiting, see the massive transformation taking place. Still the naysayers keep screaming every chance they have that the massive infrastructure transformation that people see is a hoax because people cannot “eat roads, highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, etc.” The critics demand that the Government stop investment in physical infrastructure and give people cash handouts.
Ruminations has one question to the naysayers: which infrastructure project should the Government not have undertaken? Was the Bharrat Jagdeo Demerara River Bridge not necessary? Was the Wismar Bridge across the Demerara River not important? Were the Linden, the East Bank Demerara, the East Coast Demerara, the Linden-Mabura Highways a waste of resources? Which school or hospital was a waste of money? Which community road or street was not much needed? For all those who insist that people cannot “eat roads, highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, etc” as their only reason to criticise the Government’s massive investment in infrastructure development, they need to be upfront and honest with the Guyanese people, they need to tell them which infrastructure investment was a waste of money.
Clearly, the naysayers have bumped into an unreceptive public as their argument that people cannot eat infrastructure is shallow and easy for people to simply ignore. This has forced the naysayers to look for other avenues to create polarisation in the society. Since people outrightly rejected the naysayers’ cries that people “cannot eat infrastructure”, the naysayers tried an alternative criticism against the massive investment in physical infrastructure. They started to scream that the massive infrastructure investments were driven by greed and corruption. They tried convincing the public that the massive investment in physical infrastructure was motivated only by the Government’s desire to award their families and friends with big contracts.
This is why we ask again: which of these big infrastructural investments was not really needed?
Having failed with their whimsical arguments against massive infrastructure investments, the naysayers have now targeted President Irfaan Ali with their reprehensible misinformation campaign. They have made President Irfaan Ali their main target in their corruption propaganda. They started their wicked campaign by trying to link President Irfaan Ali’s farm which he has owned for a long time (at least before 2012) as obtained through illegal means. That attempt has now fallen flat since people now see through the wickedness.
Undaunted, the naysayers tried to twist a legitimate action as the President converting State lands into his personal ownership. A few days ago, Kiskadee Watch, which has become an Opposition mouthpiece, carried a story asserting that President Irfaan Ali bought 182 acres of State land. They knew that they were misrepresenting the facts. It was barefaced, naked misinformation. When the Lands and Surveys Commission issued the truth that President Irfaan Ali had carried out his responsibility to sign over State lands for issuing titles to ordinary citizens, Kiskadee Watch did not apologise but insisted that it was a typological error where they used the word “bought” instead of the word “brought”. It was wicked dishonesty.
What has happened is that Kiskadee Watch has joined other  news outlets which have become nothing but shameless fronts for the Leader of the Opposition and the party he owns, WIN. Instead of truths, they trade in lies and misrepresentation. A good example is the Meet and Greet Meeting President Ali held in Queens, New York during his trip to the UN last week. The crowd that showed up was far larger than could be accommodated in the hall. The Opposition sycophants decided to spin the story that President Ali kept people out of the hall because he did not want people to confront him. It is insane that those who hate President Ali and the PPP rely totally on lies and misinformation.