Some MPs and Ministers didn’t care to hear about this tragedy

Jun 17, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write this letter even though, my wife and friends and children asked me not to write it because they fear that it will make somebody upset and want to hurt me. But how can I remain silent about the things I see and hear in Guyana? Someone said, “ the only thing for evil to prosper is for good people to do nothing.”
For example, imagine that you are giving a speech to a group of leaders, on a tragedy that took place. And while you are talking, most of them are texting, on their IPADs, or laptops.
What would think about them? Would you consider them leaders? Would you believe that they cared about what you were discussing? Would you consider them compassionate?
Well, imagine no more, this was one of my experiences during a visit to the National Assembly in Guyana.
Mr. Granger was speaking to the National Assembly on the need to have Commission of Inquiry on the death of three infants and 500 people sick in the Northwest Region. As he spoke eloquently and compassionately about the tragedy, I saw many MP and ministers from the government and oppositions, on their IPADs, laptops, or cell phones.
What I saw, made me ask, how can some of these leaders feel compassion or heartbreak for the families of the victims, when they do not even pay attention to during the speech. Furthermore, is what they were doing on the phone, computer, or IPAD, more important than three children deaths.
Ironically, as I sat, in the National Assembly, three of my own teen-aged children were with me, listening and paying more attention than some of the MP and ministers, I couldn’t help feeling sad and angry. I felt sad because I wonder, what it would take for some of these leaders to get off the IPAD, phone, or computer and listen attentively and show compassion when three children died. How many children have to die for them to listen?
What would it take to awakened the conscience of these leaders to compassion for the families of the victims? Do these leaders even have a conscience? How can the deaths of three babies, which can be prevented not break their heart and make them feel outraged?
I am not a prophet, but I am going to predict
that next year more children with die from that same disease because some of the leaders weren’t attentively listening.
In addition, in my opinion, the fact that three children died wasn’t the great tragedy, the greater tragedy was that some of the MPs and ministers didn’t care to hear about the tragedy and ultimately don’t care about what happened to the children in the Northwest Region.
Anthony Pantlitz

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