THE CHEDDI JAGAN UNIVERSITY IN BERBICE

Jul 31, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is with anger, frustration and renewed enlightenment that I pen this letter. I am a young Berbician who is utterly fed up with the lack of sensibility and commonsense that is scarce among the people who are tasked with managing our nation.
I have never written a letter to the press before because being an everyday reader I notice the battle of words that ensures after a controversial topic is mentioned— for example, Caribbean press, Thomas Carroll, Amaila Falls and the whole barrel of crabs. But one that has become a footnote is why I’m writing. Education has completely been reduced to a footnote. And I thought we were actually interested in our future.
However, this is what Berbicians want. Two universities in this country. One in Georgetown and the other in Berbice; the unimportant region of Berbice deserves its own university. Why? Because the UGBC is dying and will continue to do so unless a major change takes place.
The UGBC under the esteemed leadership of the highly respected director Prof. Diazal Samad has made momentous strides while being in existence. This campus deserves to be treated better. It provides a tertiary education to hundreds of individuals in this society. We churn out brilliant and talented individuals who continue to strive for excellence even as they have left the confines of these walls to careers that have positively flourished over the years.
The hardships faced by the management of UGBC are not something known to the people because the management refuses to remain groveling beggars all its life. Why must we plead and beg for attention to be given to the dire situation we face?
On the UG issue, all we were told about were the problems facing the main university but nothing was said about its subsidiary? It’s preposterous. We live our regular lives without anything tangible and I mean something lasting more than one year. And when election time comes around, we are promised the moon and the stars and we are fooled by it but no more! Enough is enough. Why have we been forsake.
Please don’t sugar the reason. No matter what the politicians say, we all know this poor treatment is attributed to the results from the 2011 elections. I apologize not for the results but because the PPP cannot face the reality; that the donkey they were used to riding has now retaliated and as punishment has been left out in the harsh, brutal weather.
This week, the party shall descend upon our region to convene at the J. C. Chandisingh Secondary school to hold their highly anticipated congress. And if you really are desperate for that winning vote, name the university after the founding leader of the party you continue to trample upon.
Denica Henry

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