We must face the fact that…

May 25, 2013 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Hmm! That’s all I could say when I read a recent letter about Guyanese taking “pride in the fact that we are today a free, independent and democratic society characterized by political and ideological pluralism, political democracy, cultural diversity, racial equality and a growing economy”.
I thought of the grouse that so many people have that licences for different services have been granted to certain sections of the community and not to others, that people now live in grilled houses, many are afraid to stroll outdoors in the evening, women are afraid to wear expensive jewellery in public and a great many are struggling to survive.
Our economy has been “growing” for such a long time, it should be a grandparent by now!
By coincidence I had just read of the sewage and rats in the classroom of a once prestigious school, which I longed to attend as a child, because the girls were so pretty, well-behaved and always looked neat in their dark, serge school uniforms and Panama hats and had bicycles.
My generation may remember St Rose’s school as a Catholic-run convent school for girls, where discipline was strict. I recall it as the school where, every Shrove Tuesday, as small girls, we would hurry to reach at lunchtime, to see the chauffeur-driven private cars stop outside the Camp Street gate and the open basins of little, round golden pancakes and syrup lifted out of the trunks and carried through the gates, presumably as gifts for the orphans housed on the nearby premises of the girls-only primary school. The chauffeur would carry the basin of syrup, the maid the one of pancakes – a fascinating display of perfectly formed, vanilla-scented, mouth watering objects to us. A sort of ritual. Gone are those days.
However, the letter on the whole reminded me of the late President Kennedy’s remarks in 1961: “We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient – that we are only six per cent of the world’s population – that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four per cent of mankind – that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity – and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem”.
One hopes the present crop of world leaders would heed those wise words.
Geralda Dennison

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