The Guyana Trades Union Congress extends Phagwah Greetings to all Guyanese, especially our Hindu brothers and sisters. As Guyanese celebrate this holy event we are reminded its significance lies in success over wrong doings. As the Hindu community uses this season to celebrate such triumph, all Guyanese in joining in this event are urged to remember triumph comes through hard work.
The Guyana Trades Union Congress extends Phagwah Greetings to all Guyanese, especially our Hindu brothers and sisters. As Guyanese celebrate this holy event we are reminded its significance lies in success over wrong doings. As the Hindu community uses this season to celebrate such triumph, all Guyanese in joining in this event are urged to remember triumph comes through hard work.
The Hindu festival of Phagwah has been made a national event where all Guyanese, regardless of race and religion, can celebrate the beginning of a period (spring) which characterises new growth, development and new beginnings. It is a period where life proliferates and evil destroyed. The commemoration of the festival of Phagwah with water, bright colours and the burning of the holika is an event that all Guyanese have grown to look forward to.
We must reflect even as we celebrate that making this a national event is a positive and progressive step in a multi-ethnic society such as ours. For it develops in each of us not only a sense of ancestral, ethnic or religious identity, but a sense of tolerance and an ability to share with each other and appreciate diversity. That this is evident today when we see wide spread participation of all groups is testimony to the earlier integration policies by the Government of the time in an effort to foster One People, One Nation, One Destiny as our motto signifies.
All Guyanese should reflect from the lessons of Phagwah, put aside differences and work towards progress and development. There is no time more fruitful than the upcoming period of General and Regional Elections where we, the people, hold the future in our hands when we make an “X.” The key to success and a brighter future lies in our hands. Let us usher in a period of growth and abundance, of new beginnings, of prosperity, of development, of brightness, a mixing of colours and purification with water.
Let us use this period to battle all evil in our midst.
Happy Phagwah to all Guyanese.
