I hope we don’t lose Professor Narine to other pursuits

May 15, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
A search on Google will show that person or persons writing under the name M. Maxwell write letters regularly in the Kaieteur News. Other letter writers and columnists have questioned the identity of this writer, as he/she is unknown in Guyana. Given the political and regularly biased views expressed by the ghosts behind the Maxwell pen, many have concluded this is one of the propaganda operations.
Maxwell Incorporated recently chose to weigh in on the letters written by frustrated IAST Director, Professor Suresh Narine. One would label the comments obtuse and ignore them, but for the known mischief that is the intent.
Narine lamented the rush by some to criticize his access to funding in Guyana as privileged. He highlighted access to relatively much higher levels of funding in Canada, without similar criticism. Maxwell Inc., having verified the truth of Narine’s statement, proceeds to suggest that Narine should procure similar levels of funding for the IAST.
But wait, isn’t this what Narine is doing? Advocating for the continued funding of his agency? Or does Maxwell Inc. think Narine is a magician, who can wave some wand and the Canadians, or the Martians from outer space would descend and fund Guyana’s research and development? It seems the “ghosts of backward thinking” employed by Maxwell Inc. are still advocating that we in Guyana are entitled to have our bills paid by someone else: shine up the begging bowl!
Narine’s success in funding, I suspect, has something to do with the fact that both Government and Opposition in Canada understand the importance of Research and Development to economic health. Clearly by Maxwell Inc.’s own admission, the Professor is employed by a reputable academic institution, which can attract such funding because of its infrastructure and academic reputation. Narine, by all accounts, has performed a Herculean task, together with the staff at the institute, in restoring the IAST to one of the premiere such institutions in the Caribbean and South America.
I hope we don’t lose the Professor to other pursuits, should his efforts continue to be frustrated by lack of budget. Not to mention ad hominen attacks from propaganda outfits. Clearly an individual who seems to be so sought after, and who Maxwell Inc. asserts is “immensely qualified”, will not stick around and be abused for his efforts.
Anil Sawh

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