Two men in a bed and the incomprehensible mind is watching them

Jan 25, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The incomprehensible still exists in Guyana. It was always there. I am referring to the East Indian voters that have interminably balloted for the group they saw as being for Indian people, the PPP. Will that mind continue its life as we approach the national elections, the winner of which will have power to change this country for the better, never to go back to incestuous, corrupt, venal, racist, monstrous wielding of power against the population?

Will the incomprehensible mind of the East Indian reach out to the horizon of reason and chose future over murky waters when the national election arrives? Here is a story for the incomprehensible mind to reflect on. I entered the offices of Kaieteur News and senior reporter, Dale Andrews, with an oceanic smile on his visage yelled out to me, “Freddie come see dis thing.” I wasn’t interested. Dale Andrews is a crime reporter and has on his hard-drive some unpleasant photographs of crime scenes. He knows I am mentally unable to look at those pictures. I thought he was teasing me when he called me over to his cubicle.

I just went on my way but Dale got serious and he persuaded me. Here is what I saw. Photo one – two sick patients sharing one bed at the Georgetown Hospital. Photo two- the sicker of the two (by appearance) fell off the bed. Photo three- there is an adjacent bed with no mattress. Photo four – the hospital personnel (according to Dale) discharged the fallen guy because they felt he brought in the media. Photo five – two policemen lifting the “evicted” sick man from the police station where he was taken to by hospital officials. Photo six – the policemen’s arrival at the Georgetown Hospital with the “castaway” to return him to the institution.

For those bloggers (who blog in their own name) who are interested in this photographic journey of Dale Andrews, please contact the journalist at this newspaper. I would suggest Dale not give this series of images to anonymous bloggers (they should respect their parents and not be ashamed of acknowledging their identities).

Let us leave the sadness of these images and look at the meaning of this tragedy for Guyana in terms of the economy. The greater percentage of our population today would not know but the awful sight on that bed in the Georgetown Hospital as captured by Dale Andrews was a common, very common manifestation in the first half of the eighties when Guyana’s economy could not sustain the continued existence of public services and public infrastructure. People died unnecessarily at the Georgetown Hospital back then like Dr. Desiree Fox.

Guyana back then could have been likened to an individual who had absolutely no money to buy food, pay rent and support the children. The economy collapsed in the early eighties. We are now about 30 years away from that era. For seventeen years, the PPP has been in Government. In that period, hundreds of billions (not hundreds of millions), yes hundreds of billions would have passed through the hand of the Government.

Since VAT began, there must have collected at least two hundred billion from that operation. Yet today, traffic lights do not work, the sewage system has collapsed, electricity supply is non-existent (I had blackout on Boxing Day, and three times since the new year began including Saturday), public schools do not have furniture, the capital city is perhaps the nastiest in the world and we have gone back to the nauseating time when three and four persons share one bed at the Georgetown Hospital and the misery goes on. By the way, Trinidad’s murder rate is higher than us. Trinidad has crime, a forensic lab and money. We have crime but no lab, no money. So serial killers go neatly about their business killing people

So the question is – where are those hundreds of billions of dollars? Something is evil about power in this country.

It is a flesh-eating sarcoma and it is going to devour this entire land unless the incomprehensible mind that is watching all of us, including the sick men on one bed, including the lady whose toilet when it flushes, the contents come onto her kitchen floor because the sewage pumps do not work, throws off its psychotic chains and enter the door of freedom and usher in the wind of change. That incomprehensible mind holds the key to a new horizon, a better landscape. Most of all, that incomprehensible mind owes itself the obligation to free itself.

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