Chocolate, stones and other stories

Jul 23, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

As an obsessive buyer of chocolate, particularly Cadbury’s, I was curious about the importer’s revelation in relation to a story of worm-infested Cadbury that was found in a store.
Geddes Grant issued a press release saying that as the agent with the license to import the stuff directly from its makers in England, that batch with the worms was not imported by the firm.
I believe the company because I noticed something strange about a type of chocolate with the Cadbury label. I wish that Geddes Grant could offer a comment.
There is a bar of Cadbury with 230 grams. It has a glossy wrapping. It goes for about $1000. Then strangely, on the market there is a bar of Cadbury with 228 grams and the wrapping is not of the glossy type.
It goes for $890. Why would Cadbury make a bar with 230 grams and another type with two grams short and used different covering? Something is not right? There is a distinct difference in the taste of the two types.
The one that carries the 230 grams is of a superior quality. I believe this is the brand that is made in the UK. Where is the other type coming from? My reading of the situation is that there is somebody other than the English Cadbury making a kind of chocolate and putting on the Cadbury label.
Geddes Grant may not know where the false one is coming from but the GRA will. The invoice should reveal from where the non-UK brand originated.
Let’s move to the telephone directory. GT&T announced last month that it has contracted out the 2009 directory.
A few articles written by me over the past seven years have focused on the GT&T directory. I even made some recommendations in one of those columns. There isn’t a year when this publication is correct. Last year, UG was completely left out.
Guyana has less people with land-based lines than Barbados. Yet the GT&T directory is always missing the names of many of its subscribers.
A simple computer programme can get it right. If you have the data on a programme, it is not possible for customers to be left out because the data can be scanned onto the printer.
Take the employees of a firm. All the names will be on the computer with their personal information. You can then make a printed booklet of the employees by transferring those names with the personal information onto the printer.
If UG was on the database for several years, how did the mistake occur for it to be left out last year? Something is not right.
It is time GT&T and the public demand better service for the directory. What does the Consumer Association do with its time? Why haven’t there been changes to this organization? One of the recommendations I suggested (which thankfully I see has been implemented) is duplicate and triplicate listing for the same organization. It means that a searcher of the directory will definitely find it.
For example, if you are putting GWI under the Ministry of Housing and Water, then put it separately under its own name too.
If you are going to list the Court of Appeal as Guyana Court of Appeal, also put it as Court of Appeal so a person who thinks it is named Court of Appeal will still be able to find it.
Let us wait and see what will happen to this year’s publication. But I am definitely of the view that whoever compiles that book has got some problems to overcome.
Finally, the Ministry of Works swooped down on the Beharry family residence on the UG access Road and removed about fifteen huge stones that were placed on the parapet to prevent parking by strangers. Justice must be even-handed.
This must be done for all others who have implemented the same policy.
Six years ago, I did a column here in which I protested those large boulders on the parapet outside the Georgetown Club. Nothing was done.
All over Guyana, people are fencing off the public parapets outside their residences or putting down these humongous stones.
They have done that to stop strangers from parking but it is a dangerous development because the police will not have free access of the reserves if they are chasing criminals in a car.
The fire engines will not have free access, too, of the parapet if they want to pass other vehicles on roads and streets.
Also, an unencumbered parapet allows you to shift away from a mad, oncoming driver heading towards you with insane speed.

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