Comprehensive records need to be kept

Mar 20, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I must certainly extend my sincere gratitude on behalf of all Guyanese for the job your paper (Kaieteur News) is doing in highlighting this ‘Salt Goods’ shop masquerading itself as a Government.
It hurts to think I put my support fully behind the youth/Government of this country at that time hoping the difference we so looked forward to was embodied in these now shameless individuals. However, I am not writing to state the obvious, the world is aware of this petty, childish and vindictive body calling itself a Government.
My suggestion or rather my question is. Are we keeping a dossier of crimes and misdemeanors committed by certain members of the Government and their friends? Why I ask is this. After apartheid was dismantled in South Africa and the truth commissions were empaneled, their records of atrocities were extensive as people had kept records. What we need to do as a people in this age of technology is to document all examples of atrocities and nepotism and the like, for the day when we will have our Commissions. There is no doubt that the day will come and we need records. The Benschops’ and the Kissoons’ and a few others alone cannot do it, we need total participation if that is possible. This record keeping is not only limited to the Government Ministers and their immediate friends and family, also soldiers and policemen who support this charade. They will also be put on trial in the end. I think it is imperative we have as comprehensive a database as we possible can get for this purpose.
I hope my fellow Guyanese see this suggestion and understand the importance of records.
Fitzgerald Chambers

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