A most controversial president

Sep 16, 2011 Letters

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Dear Editor,
Please allow me the space within your most impressive and informational column to send out greatest and heartfelt wishes and appreciation to the most controversial President/Leader who ever graced these shores of our beautiful and romantic country, “The Land of Many Waters” Guyana.
As someone who was granted the great opportunity to be born within these shores to two wonderful parents during the time of the British Rule, and who at present holds Citizenship of The United States of America, I beg your consideration to publish my letter before the official “Appreciation Day” for The President of Guyana, which is slated for Friday, September 16 2011, at the National Stadium.
Before I get into any semantics about the appreciation, I do not believe that I am so au fait with the meaning of, “The National Stadium”, but from my naivety, I would like to deduce that, judging from the name of the Stadium, it belongs to the people of Guyana and as such, I would like to request the breakdown of the rental charges, which were incurred for this private event and if there are such charges, who is/are financing these charges, please remember, we are staging an appreciation day for “THE GOOD WORKS” “THE UNQUESTIONABLE WORKS”, and “THE TRANSPARENT WORKS” of the President of Guyana.
Having started out with the question of the usage and charges for the Stadium, I think without much ado, I should get into the heart of some of the things that I think Guyanese in Guyana and also in the Diaspora should be really thankful and appreciative of our President since he assumed the Great Mantle of Leadership of this Resources Rich Country, “OH BEAUTIFUL GUYANA”
I will try my best to list our Goodly President’s remarkable and superb achievements in chronological order, but if I should have my chronology mixed up, I will ask you, Mr. Editor and your readers to excuse my ignorance of the facts of chronology, due to my long absence from this great land of ours.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR GREAT PRESIDENT DURING HIS REIGN,
1.    Home Affairs and National Security Minister Ronald Gajraj, being named as the Head of an Extra Judicial Killing Squad, herein after called, “THE INFAMOUS PHANTOM SQUAD” , which bore tremendous resemblance to the, TON-TON MACOUTES, killing squads of then Papa Doc Duvalier of Haiti.
2.    Increased the Illiteracy Rate of our school children. I can attest to that having passed through this same educational system and arriving in the United States of America with my education of the 70″s and 80’s, finding that our educational system, was way out of reach of the American System, and now we are being told that this Government under the Supreme Reign of the President, is messing with the idea of importing teachers from that very American System, which at one time was craving for the Educational Expertise of our locally trained and educated teachers.
3.    The infamous Lusignan and Bartica Massacre, which was, as expected pinned on the now dead Rondell “Fineman” Rawlins, who had to die, because capturing him, he may have revealed too much.
4.    Having a Commissioner of Police and other Senior Police Officers Foreign Visas revoked and of lately, the identification of vehicles used by Senior Officers of the Guyana Police, being owned by known Drug Traffickers.
5.    A University of Guyana Valedictorian being unable to find employment, because of her ethnicity, four years after topping the University.
6.    Building a Stelling, which floats away immediately after being opened. A bridge across the Berbice River, which had to be closed for some sort of repairs or defect shortly after being opened, unlike the Demerara Harbour Bridge, which has a wonderful story to tell, having outlived its life, which was given to it by the then engineers.
7.    Going into Buxton, grading down farmers’ land and crops, leaving the youths unemployed and uneducated and to add insult to injury, rebuilding the Tipperary Society Hall, which will serve no Economic or Educational purposes to the youths or adults of Buxton and its environs.
I can go on and on Mr Editor, naming things and events which I think the Guyanese People, should be thankful to our President for, but I am sure your readers will get really bored, because they may evolve into a book.
As the President prepares to demit office, I wish him well in his future endeavors but would like to leave this little story about a Series which graced the American television for a very long time, that show was called, “LAW AND ORDER”, and some of the familiar words that were sung before the show started and on its conclusion were,

HAPPY EXIT
Aubrey Gill
Criminal Psychologist

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