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The Peoples’ Friendship University may have got it wrong…colossally so!

Feb 10, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to the article “Honorary Doctorate for President Jagdeo (SN 8/2/10) and would appreciate the opportunity to comment.
I hope, for the sake of the future of Guyana, that we have reached a place where we can all now resolve to look to the facts of issues and not their emotive and partisan elements. After the last year, in particular, the nation should have run out of supplies of delusion by now!
We have nothing to gain in being “proud” of anything that resembles a concoction or mismatch, and everything to gain as a maturing nation if we can face our national issues squarely. The President’s stewardship is a national issue.
The award of a “honorary doctorate” to President Jagdeo by the Peoples’ Friendship University in Russia raises strong emotions in the blogosphere.
I notice the studied avoidance of everyone in the online community to actually pin down what Mr. Jagdeo has done that is noteworthy and demanding of the honor. On the other hand, the extant and accumulating evidence suggests that the Peoples’ Friendship University got it wrong … colossally so.
Where is the evidence of that? Some of it is recorded in the online article “Greed, Genocide … and now ‘Green’: Corruption and Under-Development in Guyana” (http://www.scribd.com/doc/17958657/Greed-Genocide-and-now-Green-Corruption-and-Underdevelopment-in-Guyana). The tragic thing is that this is just a minute sample of the national conversation. Others have painted a far more incriminating … and detailed … picture!
This discussion should not degenerate into another episode of the Emperor’s new clothes. It would be a further embarrassment to the national psyche … and ethos.
I repeat, after the last year in particular, the nation should have run out of supplies of delusion!
Roger Williams

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