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Feb 12, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am writing to you from Ireland.   I have Guyanese   friends and I like to learn about other cultures, so I’ve been reading Kaieteur News online.
I was amazed by the article on the construction of the Marriott Hotel.  I simply cannot believe that no Guyanese will be employed until the project is nearly complete. The excuse about language barriers and lack of skills sounds spurious to me.
I realise I am far from the scene and not familiar with conditions on the ground, but I can just imagine if a foreign company was to launch any kind of operation here in Ireland, our people would take to the streets in a mass protest if that company planned to practice such discrimination in their hiring policy. It is simply unacceptable in a free society.
I hope your people raise their voices loudly in protest. Especially the youth.
Does anybody really believe that there are no Guyanese qualified to work on a construction project?
I can tell you that it was Irish labour which built most of the major highways and construction projects in England in the 20th Century and I would bet money that few of them were great scholars.
They knew how to use their hands and put their backs into hard labour.  Are there no Guyanese with these qualifications?
If anyone tells me the answer to that question is ‘yes’ then I would say to such a person: “I don’t believe you.”
Come on Guyana…do you need this hotel so badly that you are prepared to stand idly by, while your basic civil right to a lack of discrimination in hiring, is being denied?
I don’t think so. I hope I am right.
Frankie Connolly,
Belfast

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