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Lauding Jagdeo’s virtues

Jun 03, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Extend to the past President Jagdeo and the PPP/C their well deserved appreciation.
It was good that Guyana’s National Stadium was there, such a grand, marvelous venue for the occasion, to host the inauguration of President David Granger.
I was half expecting that the MC would have extended some words of appreciation to the past President Bharat Jagdeo for boldly and courageously pushing forward against criticism from many directions to have that facility built and available.
Always a stickler for sustainability,  past President Jagdeo sought and obtained significant assistance from the Government and people of India, trimming the design to minimize first cost, and putting off some things which were added at later stages – the stadium lights, the professional stage and paving the internal parking areas.
He urged the design and layout for multiple uses – football, concerts and fairs, etc. Even the unpaved parking lot has been pressed into use as a building material storage and soil blending area. We have in Guyana, now, one of the best and most utilized stadiums awaiting Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary!
It was with similar attention to detail that past President Jagdeo led the construction of the Guyana International Conference Center (with assistance from the Government and people of China), thus having it available for proud naming as the Arthur Chung International Conference Center (not an inappropriate name).
And, earlier, in a similar way he had led in Guyana eventually satisfying the commitment made by the then President Burnham in 1973 to provide a headquarters building for CARICOM. Jagdeo, matching from our own funds a grant from the Government and people of Japan, was adamant that we do the best within our means and circumstances and at the same time adequately satisfy the needs of form and function. Do you recall the controversy then about the Caricom Headquarters building? It may yet become the next facility for proud naming!
Jagdeo needed to be bold and brave; the faint-hearted would make little headway, particularly in Guyana and with a new vision. Often, one has to press ahead differently from what many might be calling for. Henry Ford, a pioneer in the mass production of motor vehicles is said to have remarked that if he had listened to the farmers he would have bred a stronger horse and listening to the city dwellers he would have had bred a faster horse.
Cde Samuel A. A Hinds
Former Prime Minister and
Former President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

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