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The audacity of some people

Jul 27, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
One Mr. Navin Chand has assailed the Sunday, July 22, 2012 Stabroek News Editorial.
It is clear that; in this enlightened day and age, some set of persons are unable to understand the only language we speak; that is English.
I read the Sunday, July 22, Stabroek News Editorial and found that it was erudite, and achieved the quintessence of professional journalism.
I happened to be in the Linden community about three Sundays ago, and addressed a concerned but peaceful gathering of Lindeners. This was followed by a number of representatives of religious groups, mainly Christians, who fervently prayed for justice. At that rally, everyone sought Divine Intervention in the affairs and trauma of Linden.
I appealed to the residents to remain calm and to avoid being provoked, or, as I said, being trapped into a situation, which I suspected the powers that be wanted.
My concerns were heightened when I noticed that afternoon, the body language of some senior officers, and the summoning to the western edge of the rally a riot unit in full battle gear.
There was nothing said or done to justify this show of force, the only thing I noticed in the hands of a few were bibles, and one old lady had a religious tract.
It is necessary to remind leaders that the people at Linden did indicate that there was a programme planned to publicly express, on the streets of Linden, their concerns with the hope of persuading the government to understand their plight and ease the strain they were experiencing.
One would have expected as a standard operating procedure (SOP) that this million-dollar water cannon, which some of us thought was for the Fire Service, but the Minister made it clear that it was for the police, would have been stationed at Linden for the duration of this protest known to all and sundry.
I cannot therefore understand that Mr. Navin Chand, who says he is a young person in this nation, could in anyway find something objectionable to the Sunday, July 22rd, 2012 Editorial.
I hope that Chand would have read the Editorial in the said Stabroek News of the following day entitled (Lindo Creek and Linden), again a very incisive and instructive editorial.
I wonder if any reasonable person could still criticize the Editorial. Mr. Chand says he is young, and may not be aware that Minister Rohee and his ilk in 1990 referred to the police as ‘goons’. Twenty years on, is Mr. Rohee embarking on making this altruism?
As an aside, I was in Parliament when Prime Minister, Sam Hinds repeated a statement attributed to Forbes Burnham in 1976, and repeated by Chand in his letter. What neither Mr. Chand nor Sam Hinds seems to realize, is that since then, the socio-economic circumstances have changed dramatically.
What is amusing is that Burnham’s statement purportedly started with the word, ‘Socialism’, but we also know that the greatest proponents in Guyana for socialism/communism were the leaders of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
I have not heard any of them use the word in recent times, so quoting from Burnham in 1976 is no more than a diversion and a failure to deal with the real concerns of the people of Linden who are facing the pressures of the community, that only received token attention from a government that is apparently applying different criteria to communities in Guyana.
Hamilton Green, J.P.

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