Latest update April 28th, 2026 12:30 AM
Mr.Green, I am still awaiting an answer
Dear Editor,
Please permit space in your column to respond to Mr. Nigel Green’s letter ’no one ethnic group has monopoly on unemployment’ in which he states that I failed to grasp the point that he was making in his initial letter “ Unemployment impacts Guyanese of all ethnicity”.
Mr.Green’s initial letter was originally published in both the Guyana Chronicle and Kaieteur News, but his response to my letter for some strange reason was concealed in the Guyana Chronicle (June 7).
I do feel compelled to inform the right and honourable gentleman that I clearly understood his point and his motives. Mr.Green is trying to conceal his motives by making a general statement that unemployment affects all ethnic groups. That in itself is a factual statement, which is applicable to all societies, but to extrapolate this fact to conclude that afro-Guyanese are not marginalised since all ethnic groups experience unemployment is a fallacy.
To quote Mr.Green, “These individuals who claim to be representing ethnic interest exploit this concern in order to maintain their systemic domination of these groups’. From this quote, it is clear that Mr.Green is dismissive of afro-Guyanese concerns and is simply stating, without any investigatory facts, that representation of such concerns is a conniving trick to achieve ‘systemic domination”. Mr.Green isn’t this belittling people’s experiences?
Mr Green further states that “in 2010, the University of Guyana churned out 1,400 graduates from the Turkeyen campus.There are simply not enough jobs out there to meet such a demand in the labour force.Nonetheless, these instigators use the unemployment situation, and many others, to push their case of ethnic inequalities befalling their ethnic group”.
Correct me if I am wrong Mr. Green, but isn’t this not dismissing and belittling of people’s experiences?
Mr.Green further states that “their facade that Africans are marginalised by being deliberately denied jobs is false and insincere”.
Have you or the Government ever investigated these claims? How do you know it is a facade without first investigating? Isn’t this not belittling people’s experiences?
Mr.Green, I am not arguing that a person is marginalised because they are unemployed, rather I am stating from experience, that within that group of afro-Guyanese who are unemployed, there is a significant percent who were marginalised.
Mr.Green, I would suggest that in the real world it is the norm that a claim is first investigated before it is dismissed.As a result, you and the agents of the PPP government who just see it fit to dismiss before investigating have shown a blatant disregard of people’s experiences.
In my earlier correspondence I also asked Mr. Green, using his argument, if he is implying that the Government has failed the Guyanese populace as a whole or have they failed the afro-Guyanese as a group? Mr.Green, I am still awaiting an answer.
As I have stated in my original letter you should either open your eyes or shut your mouth. Sadly, I suspect that your eyes are irreversibly closed, hence I think your only option is to shut your mouth.
Dr.Mark Devonish
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