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An unequivocal apology must be demanded forthwith

Feb 13, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Let me from the outset make it pellucid that I have neither an interest in the internal decision-making mechanism of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) nor any intention of challenging same. What I do have, however, is a profound difficulty with the way young Member of Parliament Vanessa Kissoon was treated at the last sitting of parliament.
Ms. Kissoon is a sitting member of the National Executive Committee of the Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM), Youth arm of the People’s National Congress and a Member of Parliament of seven (7) years of distinguished service. Thus, by virtue or her office, she should have been granted the minimum, the common courtesy of a notification of the change in her seating arrangement.
What is more disgusting is the deafening silence of the National Chairman of the GYSM, who himself is a member of the august assembly and by extension, the executive of the GYSM. This to my mind gives tacit support to the crude and disrespectful treatment of young people.
If this is the manner in which the political leadership will be treated, the young people of the party and more so of Guyana, then the youths of this country have a lot of rethinking to do. It is time for the youth of this country to demand equal treatment and be seen as equal partners at the decision-making table.
I wish to say without fear of successful contradiction that at no time, during my tenure in the GYSM and that of my predecessors, would such level of disrespect have been tolerated. Thus an unequivocal apology must be demanded from the chief whip and the intellectual authors of the decision forthwith.
Bevon Currie
Youth Activist
Former National Secretary
Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM)

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