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A PRAYER
Dear God,
Please stop climate change. It is causing too many problems. Sea levels are rising; the rains are more intense, and the Earth is warming. These things are causing a great deal of problems in Guyana.
For one, we are receiving too much rain. There is great flooding, resulting in many farmers losing their crops. Homes are also being inundated during periods of heavy rainfall. The people are losing a great deal of money because of these floods.
On top of that our poor, poor, government has to spend so much money to help prevent the flooding. Long ago it used to be cheaper to build a koker than to build a pumping station. Today it is the other way around. Can you imagine, Lord, that today it costs 154 million dollars to build a koker; and nearly 78 million dollars to build a pumping station. Imagine what it will cost to build back the Ministry of Health.
Yes, I know that the Americans have offered help to determine the cause of the fire. I thought it was decided already that it was a channa bomb. Anyway, when someone offers you help, you cannot turn it down and so the Americans should be allowed to go and do their forensic work.
But God, you know it would have been better if this offer of help had come earlier. What are the investigators going to find close to two weeks after the fire? You alone, God, knows who set that fire and what was in the mind of those who carried out these acts. Deliver them, Lord, into the hands of the police. Not the GDF.
God you know what is going to happen to those poor, misguided arsonists if they end up in the hands of the army. One man is claiming that he was picked up and dragged through the streets. He was then dumped at, of all places the Brickdam Police Station. Now, Lord, you know that people in Guyana prefer to be held down in an ant’s nest than to go through the torture of spending one night in the Brickdam lockups. That place stinks. It is nasty and the lighting is poor. Now God, if a man could lose his cell phone in the lockups at the Courts, imagine what can happen to someone who has to spend a night in that nasty, stink and poorly-lit lockups in Brickdam.
Fortunately, Lord, the Brickdam people refused to accept the man and he was sent to another police station. Well it is good that we have a great many good Samaritans in Guyana. But, Lord, to think that of all the people that are looking out for this man’s interest, it had to be the media in Guyana. Imagine the media looking out for prisoners. Things happening right under their noses and they don’t see it, much less to have them try to track this prisoner.
On top of that, the police had to carry the man to the Georgetown Hospital. It may have been better if they had simply allowed him to continue to lie on the bench at the police station. As if what this man went through were not enough, he still had to go through the agony of being taken to the Georgetown Hospital where he sat on a bench. He could have died waiting on that bench.
In Barbados they have a bench for Guyanese. In Guyana we have a Bench Shop. The man is protesting again. I don’t know what he and the other one protesting about. But they protesting. They protest in front of the Office of the President. They protest in front of the Ministry of Home Affairs. They protest in front of the Commissioner of Police’s Office. They might end up next in front of Congress Place, because they have a lot of protests taking place within there.
God, give them strength and wisdom. Give them the strength, to continue to protest and thus prove that Guyanese have freedom, and give them the wisdom to find the time to explain to the Guyanese people just what they are protesting about.
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