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Nov 12, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am not usually one to comment publicly on current affairs, but recently, as a young Guyanese who wants to see a good future for Guyana, I can’t help but be amazed (amused) at recent stories that appeared in the media.
There was the story about one head teacher who sent 70 students home because she deemed them not to be worthy of writing the national CSEC examinations next year. I wonder what she was doing while those same 70 students were attending her school over the past four years of their lives.
Oh well, life goes on.
Equally perplexing to me is how some Guyanese drivers are hell bent (hell bound?) on speeding themselves and their passengers to their deaths. Haven’t they got it that unless they exercise caution, the roadways of Guyana will become their passage to the next world? Or are they merely trying to avoid being around for another elections period? Also, what happened to the police and their speedometers? Or are they standing on the roadways and pointing breathalyzers at oncoming traffic? Either way, life goes on eh?
The police were feeling left out of the headlines, so they decided to beat up an Essequibo businessman because he inquired why they wanted him to go down to the police station with them. Simply informing the man was not enough, they had to punctuate (‘punch’tuate) their request with unnecessary physical action. Hey, at least the guy didn’t have his genitals burnt to a crisp right? And life goes on.
GPL have revealed their theme for this Christmas. Well, that is until they kept cutting the power so none of us could actually get to see the theme. I thought that the new Kingston power plant was supposed to banish the demon known as blackout forever. I suppose it is waiting for back up from the non existent hydro power plant whose benefits we are supposed to be enjoying at the moment. Hopefully Fip Motilall did not develop amnesia when his vehicle took a tumble in the jungle. Our President also wants a few hundred million dollars more to make sure that this problem goes away. Maybe we should all adapt to living in the darkness, develop our ocular night vision senses and what not. In the meantime, life goes on.
Mr. Sharma was needed in court, but was nowhere to be found. His heart decided to take a few coffee breaks, and he went overseas to encourage it to go back to work. When he finally appears in court, there is no paper to be found for the magistrate to take the deposition. And we all
wonder why justice is sometimes ‘delayed’ in Guyana. I know why..because to Guyanese, life goes on.
Just as the authorities chose not to clean in front of Freddie Kissoon’s property (which in itself is a very childish and ‘asinine’ (borrowing one of Freddie’s words) gesture, Guyanese choose to sit back and allow nonsense to prevail in their land. On the brink of another national election, I am left to wonder what exactly do Guyanese people want for themselves? I’ll tell you what I want; I want life to go on. But I want it to go on much better than it has been for the past..oh..18 years or so. Come on, let’s shape up and do better for ourselves. We need to stop placing such a low value on our quality of life and start to work together to change our circumstances. Let’s drop the ‘life goes on’ moniker and shorten it to one simple motto: let’s just have ‘life’.
M. A. Hassan
Editor-in-Chief JAMDAYARD Magazine

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