Latest update October 9th, 2026 6:21 PM
One can always find something puzzling or comical in printed observations about Guyana
Dear Editor,
I did, when I read two sections of your newspaper recently. A resident columnist’s article was headed ‘No society like Guyana is worthy of existence’. I found the cases of the two youngsters being expelled from school for having cell phones in class puzzling. Although expulsion seemed a bit extreme – confiscation for the day and a warning should have been enough – was there not a rule against cell phones in classrooms?
If there was such a rule, then ‘legal redress’ would hardly be an option.
Comical was the immediate expulsion of a girl found kissing a boy, presumably on school premises, and “that child” subsequently becoming pregnant. The head of the school seemed to have prescience and thought ‘not in my backyard’.
I think the truth is the Guyanese people have tried hard to get those in authority to look, see and listen but have failed consistently. So the attitude now is “What’s the use, what can we do”? That was my deduction while in Guyana almost two decades ago.
Also puzzling was the statement in a letter that “Guyana had made “considerable progress over the years and from the second poorest country in the western hemisphere during the 1970-1980 period, the country has advanced progressively along the development continuum and is now ranked among the lower middle income countries”. From ‘second poorest’, where do we now stand in the Western Hemisphere?
I have often wondered about this. Please enlighten us – as a matter of pride.
Geralda Dennison
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