At some point a human has to have decency

Apr 18, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I was part of a picketing group outside Parliament, last week, that was calling upon the Speaker to ban Priya Manickchand from speaking, unless she directly apologized to Jaipaul Sharma. Walking past the pickets was a lecturer I met at UG, but hadn’t seen since my contract termination at UG on January 2012.
Sukrishnalall Pasha passed directly in front of me, so I stopped him and we ended up chatting for almost forty minutes. UG, of course, was one of the topics. At one point in the conversation, I asked if he had a higher degree. He answered in the affirmative and I enquired about the name of the university. He said it was Manchester School of Economics in the UK.
I asked him to look me in the eyes and tell me if in any conceivable way you can compare what you see at that school and what that college has; what that college offers its staff and students, to what the University of Guyana has and looks like. I will not publish his answer, but move directly to a very important letter that appeared in the Monday edition of the Stabroek News written by someone who signed her name as Hema Persaud.
Captioned, “What a contrast with Jamaica,” the missive describes a trip to Jamaica and how she saw Jamaicans cleaning their country from the parapets to the beaches to the tourist sites. The writer didn’t state why they were cleaning. I will now.
It isn’t that they are exceptions; it isn’t because they want special treatment; it is because that is how a country should look like. At a picnic site with your family, you put the soda can in the bin so that the Europeans and South Koreans that visit your beach will not think that you are uncivilized.
In Guyana, we are living out a horror tale that if not stopped, then the next generation of this country will not be fit to be part of modern civilization. We have university lecturers, business people and private tourist officials, among others, who live in Guyana, the dirtiest country in the world, where educational institutions from nursery to tertiary are abominations to look at. Yet these soulless folks praise the work of the central government every day.
I see university lecturers who returned to UG after studying at ultra-modern foreign institutions praising UG, its administration and the Guyana Government. They compliment an institution that is literally dying. What kind of people are these? I see people lauding the government for lifting up tourist standards, when Guyana has no tourist standards and is overrun by rubbish. What kind of humans are they?
Let me say without fear of contradiction – if you bring an ordinary, just an ordinary South Korean or German and just show him two streets in Georgetown, he is going to demand to be flown out. No country in the Third World looks so sickening.
I am glad that China Central Television (CCTV) is on air. Each day, they have a long section on Africa titled, “Africa Live.” You should see the streets of the countries of the African continent. Not one capital on that continent comes close to being as nightmarish as Georgetown looks.
Every day businessmen in Guyana heap monumental panegyrics on the PPP Government, a government that has been in power for 22 years, yet no public school has a clean toilet (not one); no public gallery has a clean bench to sit on; the less said about the resources of UG the better; there isn’t a clean, modern office in any police station, including Eve Leary and Brickdam.
The two Chinese ferries have been in Guyana about two years now, but I am betting anyone that those toilets have become unbearably stink
All Guyanese should read Hema Persaud’s letter. It is yet another reminder that no young Guyanese that sets foot out of this country is going to come back. None is going to return, because when they make the comparison, they see a juxtaposition of a modern world and a rotting hell hole.
What do people apart from the ‘Bajans’ and Trinidadians who scorn us, say about a nation that can watch their country in such a mess yet be so shameless in their applause for a government that has not performed at all? What do you call these people – prostitutes, slaves, lost souls, sickening opportunists?
But surely, a saturation point must come when you say, “I can’t take this anymore”. Where are the children of these soulless prostitutes, these decayed humans, these semi-civilized citizens? Don’t these children have any sense of decency so that they can caution their parents?

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