A case of being held to ransom

Mar 19, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Please allow me space to do a follow up on a letter you published for me a few months ago. It is a letter which described the delay in the powers that be to return my transport which was pledged as security for my daughter, who is a medical doctor, to leave Guyana. The transport is still with these “square pegs in round holes”.
After my letter was published it would seem as if the persons who are responsible for holding up my transport were a bit peeved at me for making it known to the public. So now it is the game of “who mo baad’.
I made an issue of it and I am now going to suffer for fighting for my own rights.
The way I understood the security issue was that I was simply giving the Ministry of Health and the Public Service Ministry a surety. The said surety was to ensure that my daughter returned to Guyana after a period abroad.
Now that has been done since April 8, 2013, now I am being given the royal run around simply to uplift my transport.
The whole process should be dealt with in this manner:—Once my daughter returned to work her immediate supervisor would issue a ‘resumption letter’ or a form is completed and sent to the Ministry of Health indicating that she has in fact resumed her duties.
The Ministry of Health then sends the resumption letter to the Public Service Ministry (PSM). PSM then issues a letter to me or someone authorized by me, to take to the Ministry of Finance where the transport is lodged and so can be picked up.
The formalities have long, long ago been completed and yet my transport is held by the PSM and the Ministry of Finance.
Now, after I made my plight known. These bureaucrats are playing hard ball with my transport. Is this how they expect the youths to feel wanted or needed? No one will pledge any security for anyone of these young doctors who have studied so hard and returned to serve their country when all they want is to spend some time abroad.
And to add insult to injury I just saw a certificate issued to my daughter, by the Berbice Regional Health Authority, which reads OUTSTANDING WOMAN OF 2014. I wonder what does that mean. It would seem to me that this certificate is saying—‘forget the transport keep this instead’.
I was made to understand that I have a ‘big mouth’ and that I like to ‘write letters’ so let’s see who will give me my transport.
I wonder what will happen if I decide to go to Ashni Singh’s office to uplift my transport. These persons are trying to make criminals out of honest and hard working people. I will wait for exactly five days after the publication of this letter—and I will go to the Ministry of Finance for my transport—personally
Charrandass Persaud

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