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Nov 19, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Anyone who regularly reads your letters will know that this writer restricts himself mainly to healthcare matters, because I am a member of a worldwide exclusive club, i.e executive member the Canadian College of health service executives.
Up to today I intended to take secretly to my grave the above subject. However, I feel it would be a great travesty to ignore or avoid the subject of deported remigrants published in SN Thursday November 11, 2010, page 12 and 19.1 departed Guyana, January 1956 and returned permanently, legally and voluntarily in 1997. A large volume of my personal files are currently in the hands of several lawyers because of matters before the Guyana Civil Courts so I write now only what I can recall.
It was probably in year 2000 a gentleman named Bharrat Jagdeo called a meeting inviting remigrants to discuss remigration and all its ramifications. I could not possibly forget this event because when it began, everyone present will remember a massive blackout and that the meeting was conducted with the use of candles and torch lights. In attendance were in excess of 200 persons including myself.
In essence, Mr. Jagdeo issued a challenge to all attendees to go away, consider all that was discussed; form an officially elected committee; develop plans; develop terms of reference; then submit to him a document which will receive his serious considerations. Several dozens of us subsequently met and executed Mr. Jagdeo’s mandate. This writer who happened to be the Chief Executive Officer of Georgetown Public Hospital at the time was elected the first International President of the Guyana Remigrants Association.
My committee and I went to work with fervent commitment.
We developed terms of reference and strategies, met at least once with Mr. Clement Rohee and others at the Tower Hotel to discuss several matters (I now realise that matters relating to deportees may have attracted Mr. Rohee’s attention, but I admit deportees never was on the agenda of my committee).
Mr. Editor, we never received any written or verbal response from Mr. Jagdeo, Mr. Rohee or anyone in the administration; so after six to nine months I resigned as President and to this day what happened to the committee members I do not know.
Shortly thereafter the then serving Minister of Health summoned me to his office and promptly told me that in discussions with Directors of Georgetown Hospital Board (of which I was a member and secretary) he was told that I was underperforming. After more than 40 years successfully practicing my profession in England, Canada, Jamaica (UWI) and elsewhere, I did not need an interpreter to translate what this Cretin (idiot/dwarf) was saying, especially in the absence of a performance evaluation, a sanction or a warning, so I tendered my written resignation the very next day, copy to the Board of Directors.
Lo and behold, no one on the board admitted to speaking to the Minister on the subject and in effect they blew off an angry letter to him requesting an emergency meeting then asked me to extend my stay for an additional two months, which I reluctantly did. Where is this over performing Ex-Minister today? Now what is all this about to do with your article of November 11, 2010?
It is to wish all deportee remigrants better luck than all legal voluntary remigants and to offer my assistance to Juncata Juvant Friendly Society in their humanitarian efforts.
Mr. Editor, please allow me to thank Mr. Frank Fyffe for reading and quoting excerpts from my letters.
Finally, this remigrant now age 73, after over 10 years, is still awaiting a response from Mr. Jagdeo to my application to be appointed a Justice of Peace and Commissioner to Oaths and Affidavits in Guyana. A high court judge has told me years ago that my application has been investigated, researched, fully approved and submitted to the President for his signature, but is gathering dust on his desk. Remigrants, does this administration care about us? Dream on.
George L. Munroe

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