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THE PRESENT NATIONAL SITUATION After winning the national elections in October 1992, the PPP/Civic soon found that managing the affairs of state was a more demanding task than they had imagined when in opposition. Such a task calls for skills already in short supply. The PPP/Civic government had underestimated the extent of the social decay and overestimated its capacity To go it alone". To make matters worse, the government soon became caught up in negligence, inefficiency, waste and gross mismanagement. Having assumed office without a well thought-out programme for the reconstruction and development of the nation, the PPP/Civic adopted the Economic Recovery Programme of the Hoyte administration. Guyana's external debt has been reduced primarily as a result of the generosity of creditors and lending agencies. The majority of projects were already in the pipeline at the time PPP/Civic assumed office. Examples are the Health Care Project II, road works, and primary schools construction. Generally, the PPP/Civic pays scant attention to aspects such as cost-effectiveness and effective management. For example, the distribution of house lots to the poor are too often marked by corruption, inefficiency, party and ethnic patronage. What little progress has taken place in the past five years has been as a result of the private sector. The Kayman Sankar Group, Demerara Distillers Ltd., DIH, Beharry Group, the Kissoon Group, Omai Goldmines Ltd. Barama Company Ltd., the small rice farmers and others in the private sector demonstrate that there is no substitute for good management. In contrast, the public sector, the direct responsibility of the PPP/Civic Government, has experienced little improvement after close to five years of PPP/Civic stewardship and billions of dollars of expenditure. Water, Roads, Electricity, Sea Defence, Healthcare, Education and Crime Prevention have all suffered as a result of inept government. Projects that should ordinarily be completed in under two years are taking in excess of five years at massive  Guyana "Land of Many Waters" - except in the pipes
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