The first step in development is indeed to enact and enforce open transparent systems. A second, no less essential, step is to work for similar high levels of participation (bidding) and success of all groups so as to give substance to our aspiration of ‘One Guyana’. For a society to stay together the necessary standards should not be seen and approached as hurdles to fail and exclude many, but as standards to which many, if not all, are to be trained and could be trained ( by various methods and paths) to attain.