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The double standards at UG

Jul 04, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Recent decisions by the UG Council at its 23rd June meeting provide further proof why UG graduates should stay in Guyana.
The Council reinstated a lecturer, whom it was alleged made sexual remarks during his lectures, because a committee set up to investigate the matter reported it found no evidence to support the charge. At that same meeting another lecturer whose contract was not renewed in June 2009 and who appealed to the UG Council was basically told by the UG Council to forget his appeal; the top UG administrator who was to report to the Council at that meeting as to why the lecturer’s contract was not renewed never presented the evidence for not renewing the contact.
This top administrator had about a year to tell the UG Council the reasons why he did not renew the lecturer’s contract, yet the UG Council and its new chairman accepted this state of affairs even though it violated basic principles of natural law.
So in the former case the matter was dismissed and the lecturer was reinstated because no evidence was produced against that lecturer and in the latter’s case no contact was awarded to that lecturer although no evidence was offered to the Council by the top UG administrator. That is, ‘good governance’, especially transparency, which we hear so much of in our courses, was thrown out of the meeting along with any sense of justice.
No one knows the reasons why the lecturer’s contract was not renewed and because of this he cannot correct any “mistakes” he might have made. Is this fair?
One member of the UG Council summarized the decision as “That’s life in Guyana”.
Who then should appeal to the Council and why if the UG Council is not interested in applying natural law in its deliberations and merely pretending it is adjudicating on the appeal?
If these are the decisions which our best and brightest make, why should any UG graduate put his/her life in their hands?
Stanley Wong

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